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Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a rumoured public listing — and the answer sits inside a screenless device shaped by the more ...

Apple has allegedly filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI that could complicate the artificial intelligence company's path to a public listing.
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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jum…

The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as ...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got ...
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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships l…

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and ...
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The hardest part of a long marriage isn't always the arguments or the boredom — sometimes it's the strange grief of watching the person you married slowly become …

Long marriages ask something almost no one warns you about: the quiet grief of watching your partner slowly become someone ...
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China's AI boom isn't producing the next Jack Ma — it's producing a generation of one-person businesses running on generative agents, and Silicon Valley is misreadi…

In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a ...
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Plant-based food sales have flatlined after years of double-digit growth, and grocery data suggests the drop-off is coming from vegans themselves, not skeptics

US plant-based food sales fell 2% in 2024 after years of double-digit growth, and the shoppers walking away aren't skeptics — ...
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Across 1,252 people in 10 studies, researchers found that even a five-minute dose of green exercise lifted mood and self-esteem

In 2010, two researchers at the University of Essex tried to answer this question. They pooled the results of 10 separate UK ...
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The gut-sleep axis: how microbial diversity in the colon shapes how rested you feel, according to a 2019 PLOS ONE study of 40 men

A 2019 PLOS ONE study of 40 men in Nova Scotia found that the diversity of bacteria in the colon correlated with total sleep ...
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Venezuela's earthquake response was not built by the state or the UN — it was assembled in three hours by diaspora coders with Claude and Replit, and that invers…

The prevailing story about AI in a disaster zone is that it belongs to governments and large NGOs: satellite imagery ...
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Psychology suggests we don't reason toward truth so much as defend what we already believe: we seek out the facts that confirm us and quietly wave away the res…

In 1998, a Tufts psychologist named Raymond Nickerson published a long review article pulling together decades of scattered ...
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones ran a five-day classroom experiment called 'The Third Wave' — and by day four, 200 students had joined a m…

In five days in April 1967, a 25-year-old history teacher in Palo Alto turned a classroom question about Nazi Germany into a ...