In the first quarter of 2026, investors poured roughly $242 billion into AI…
The first quarter of 2026 was not just another strong period for AI fundraising.
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Researchers studying late-life wellbeing have found that one of the deepest…
There is a version of a good old age that most of us carry around without examining it.
A generation ago the typical first-time American homebuyer was in their late…
The obvious reading of a first-time homebuyer reaching a median age of 40 is that young Americans are waiting longer by choice, renting into their late thirties, delaying the whole project of settling down.
Microsoft counted 275 daily pings among its most heavily contacted users, with a…
Microsoft’s interruption estimates apply to the top 20 per cent of users by received ping volume. The 275 total covers 24 hours; the two-minute gap covers an eight-hour workday.
Sam Altman’s pitch to hand every American family $320 in OpenAI equity is being…
The number that emerged from a leaked negotiation this month was $320. That is what each American household would receive, in equity, if Sam Altman's proposal to hand the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI were distributed evenly across American families.
The cost of running a top-tier AI query dropped 280-fold in roughly 18 months…
The most important AI chart for startups may not be the one showing larger models, higher benchmark scores or billion-dollar training runs.
I asked ChatGPT to plan my weekends for a month — the surprise wasn’t the free…
The screen showed a five-weekend plan.
Adding a dollar’s worth of protein powder to a latte is apparently enough to turn…
I started taking protein powder a few weeks ago, after roughly a decade of treating it the way some people treat cults: intriguing from a distance, definitely not for me.
Chamath Palihapitiya just took his first full-time operating job since Facebook…
Chamath Palihapitiya is returning to a full-time operating role for the first time since leaving Facebook, taking the CEO seat at 8090 Labs after the AI coding startup closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, according to TechCrunch.
A new study modeling six of history’s deadliest heatwaves found that conditions…
A new study in Nature Communications modelled six of the deadliest heatwaves on record and found something the field has been slow to acknowledge: every single one of them killed thousands of people while staying below the wet-bulb temperature long treated as the threshold between danger and death.
A wealthy Italian town spent 2024 cracking down on unapproved air conditioners…
Portofino is a village of fewer than 500 permanent residents on the Ligurian coast, roughly an hour southeast of Genoa.
A November 2025 Stanford paper estimated a 16% relative employment decline for…
An August 2026 revision subsequently put the relative gap at 19%. The discussion below retains the November 2025 results; these are…