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The Download: underage celebrity chatbots, and OpenAI’s latest model
Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under...
An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in a garage
When researchers ask to study the skeletons, Borrini will find out whether the research will somehow alter them. “If there is destructive sampling, we need to guarantee that the...
I decided to be open at work about my chronic illness. Here’s what it taught me
A recent Society for Human Resources Management study found that 47% of employees with invisible chronic conditions—illnesses or disabilities that limit activities and functions but lack visible symptoms—have not...
‘A pbj burger on the menu’: Millennial burger joints are getting roasted on TikTok
Many things are considered distinctly millennial: a man bun, avocado toast, axe-throwing bars. Now you can apparently add millennial burger joints to that list. On February 11, TikToker fairylights2007...
OpenAI unveils its new GPT-4.5 large language model
OpenAI released a new base model on Thursday called GPT-4.5, which the company said is its best and smartest model for chat yet. It’s not a reasoning model like...
Midlife women are in the spotlight
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Trump tariff threats have Americans ‘doom spending.’ Here’s why that’s bad
From the rising cost of eggs and the staggering cost of housing, the constant chaos from mass government firings to the tariff threats against Canada and Mexico, Americans are...
Trump Republicans kill a rule that charged Big Oil for methane emissions
The Republican-controlled Congress has voted to repeal a federal fee on oil and gas producers who release high levels of methane, undoing a major piece of former President Joe Biden’s...
What to know about the 24-hour ‘economic blackout’
A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder sees as the malign influence...
Warby Parker to open eyewear shops in Target stores: Here’s the full list of locations coming in 2025
Love Warby Parker glasses, but not the high price tags? This one’s for you. Target is partnering with Warby Parker to bring designer-quality, affordable eyewear to customers, opening five “shop-in-shops”...
