OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman speaking onstage at SXSW Conference with journalist Laurie Segall on March 10, 2023 | Photo by Errich Petersen/Getty Images for SXSWWhat you need to know about GPT-4, the latest version of the buzzy generative AI technology. When ChatGPT came out in November, it took the world by storm. Within a month of its release, some 100 million people had used the viral AI chatbot... Read more ›
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Sebastian Ghiorghiu/YouTubeYouTube and TikTok are plagued with 20-something “passive income” bros who want your attention — and your money. Sebastian Ghiorghiu hates excuses. He’s only 24, yet runs a “seven-figure marketing agency.” He owns multiple “dream cars” and is currently building his “luxury dream house” in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ghiorghiu is productive, he says, for 98 percent of every day. He went from “skinny fat” to “jacked.” He believes in God.... Read more ›
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The Milky Way seen from Thung Salang Luang National Park Phetchabun in Thailand. | Getty Images/JackyenjoyphotographyEarth, for all we know, is the only planet with life on it. But how did it start? The defining feature of our world is life. For all we know, Earth is the only planet with life on it. Despite our age of environmental destruction, there’s life in every corner of the globe, under its... Read more ›
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Elon Musk speaks at the World Government Summit in Dubai, 2023. | Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty ImagesConcerning! Twitter has been a disaster since Elon Musk bought the company last fall: Advertising dollars vanished, the site breaks all the time, and it’s now explicitly a home for the worst people on Earth. And there’s no reason to think any of this will change as long as Musk owns the thing. Because... Read more ›
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston doesn’t insure deposits (that’s the Depositors Insurance Fund), but it does look cool. | Paul Marotta/Getty ImagesDon’t want to lose your bank deposits? Simple: Bank in Massachusetts. In Michael Mann’s 1995 movie masterpiece Heat, bank robber Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) explains to panicked bank customers that he has no intention of hurting them: “We’re here for the bank’s money, not your money. Your... Read more ›
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An MQ-9 Reaper drone with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) awaits the next mission over the US-Mexico border on November 4, 2022, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. | John Moore/Getty ImagesThis is an “unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians,” the US said. A Russian warplane forced down a US drone over the Black Sea, the US says, another reminder of the potential escalation risks tied to the Ukraine war. According... Read more ›
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, days before Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. | Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSVB’s collapse is the price of the Fed’s interest rate gambit. It turns out the Federal Reserve has been moving fast and breaking things, but few people noticed until the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Over the past year, the Fed has... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to Iowa voters gathered at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on March 10, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIn recent statements, DeSantis is the latest GOP leader to break sharply from the party’s support for Ukraine. The Republican Party is divided on whether the US should continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, and this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made... Read more ›
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The US Capitol dome in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2023. | Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesIf its spirit were more rigorously enforced. Congressional hearings are an important part of the lawmaking process. Experts from outside government sit in front of committees and help them consider issues of national concern. But money does shape ideas in Washington. In 1997, House Republicans implemented a “truth in testimony” rule that required congressional... Read more ›
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Scream VI’s core four friends. | Philippe BosséLive fast, die young, final girls don’t do it well. There are some light spoilers for Scream VI in this article The only thing Scream movies love more than painstakingly explaining the rules of the horror genre is showing you how it breaks them. One main killer who’s invariably a dude, the taboo against sex and drugs, “I’ll be right back” as the... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley Bank logo | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via GettyA bailout is the worst option, except for all the others. The old saw about democracy is that it’s the worst form of government, except for all the others. At the moment, the same holds true about bailouts aimed at averting economic panic — like we saw with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) this weekend. There is semantic dispute about whether the US... Read more ›
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People wait outside the Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California, to withdraw funds after the federal government intervened upon the bank’s collapse, on March 13, 2023. | Nikolas Liepins/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAs Silicon Valley Bank collapses, the right returns to its favorite boogeyman. Some banks are huge. Some are tiny. Some serve all possible kinds of customers, while others, like the recently kaput Silicon Valley Bank, carve... Read more ›
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This diabetes drug could be the future of weight management. Ozempic, a medication developed to manage Type 2 diabetes, has been in the news a lot lately because of one of its signature side effects: drastic weight loss. Both Ozempic and Wegovy, Ozempic’s counterpart approved specifically for weight loss by the FDA, are brand names of a drug called semaglutide. Semaglutide is one of several drugs that mimics a crucial... Read more ›
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The Biden administration approved one of the largest oil developments ever on public land. The decision contradicts his promise on the 2020 campaign trail to approve no new fossil fuel drilling on federal land. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe Willow Project is a “carbon bomb” that will complicate Biden’s climate legacy. The same president who passed the nation’s biggest law ever to slash climate pollution may have just undone part... Read more ›
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Cyclists ride by Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus on March 12, 2019, in Stanford, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesAnd it arrives at the Supreme Court at an absolutely horrible time. On Thursday, what could be the single most important transgender rights case in American history reached the Supreme Court. West Virginia v. B.P.J. asks the Supreme Court to address whether any government discrimination against transgender people is inherently... Read more ›
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An image autogenerated by Midjourney, a text-to-image tool, when given the prompt “people performing office tasks with AI, collage art.” | MidjourneyHow Ethan and Lilach Mollick learned to stop worrying and start automating their jobs. About 10 minutes into my interview with Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school who has become a prominent evangelist for AI tools, it became clear that he was going... Read more ›
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A security guard at Silicon Valley Bank monitors a line of people outside the office on March 13, 2023, in Santa Clara, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSilicon Valley Bank was a test case for Congress’s 2018 bipartisan banking deregulation law. It failed. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other similarly sized banks in recent days has put a spotlight on Congress’s 2018 bipartisan banking deregulation law, which was signed... Read more ›
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“It’s a bailout, but it’s a bailout of a different group and it’s done in a different way.” | erhui1979/Getty ImagesDid the government just bail out banks again? Yes-ish. But this isn’t 2008. The whisper of the word “bailout” is enough to send a shiver down anyone’s spine. For most, it evokes specific and evocative memories of the 2008 global financial crisis, when the United States government stepped in to... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley Bank customers line up before the opening of a branch at SVB headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on March 13, 2023. | Noah Berger/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat we know about the bank failure and fallout. Silicon Valley Bank, one of tech’s favorite lenders, collapsed on Friday after 48 hours of chaos, becoming the second-largest bank failure in US history. The bank’s blowup has sent shockwaves across the tech... Read more ›
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