CEO warns AI could wipe out 1 in 2 white collar jobs in next five years

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The head of one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence labs has warned the technology could eliminate half of all entry-level, white-collar jobs within the next five years.  Fresh off promoting his company’s technology at a developer conference, Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that politicians and businesses are not […]


On 100 Years of Mrs. Dalloway ‹

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It’s impossible to sum up the novel Mrs. Dalloway without feeling like you’ve left out something essential. Recently, I attempted to describe the book to someone who’d never read Virginia Woolf. Article continues after advertisement “Basically, it’s a day in the life of a woman in high-society London who’s planning a party,” I said. “It’s […]


TSMC, the Chip Giant, Is to Spend $100 Billion in U.S. Over the Next 4 Years

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President Trump on Monday said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, will spend $100 billion in the United States over the next four years to expand its production capacity and bring its most advanced semiconductor processes to its operations in Arizona. The investment will allow TSMC to begin making artificial intelligence and […]


They’ve Been Waiting Years to Go Public. They’re Still Waiting.

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Turo, a car rental start-up in San Francisco, has been trying to go public since 2021. But a volatile stock market in early 2022 delayed its listing. Since then, the company has waited for the right moment. Last week, Turo pulled its listing entirely. “Now is not the right time,” Andre Haddad, the company’s chief […]


The Most Popular Romance Books of the Last Few Years, According to Goodreads

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Just in time for the month of love, Goodreads has assembled a list of 100 of the most popular romance books according to their millions of members. They focused on books from the last three years—so ones that were published 2022-2024—that have been placed on Goodreads members’ shelves the most and that have a 4-star […]


Here are this year’s finalists for The Story Prize. ‹

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January 13, 2025, 11:00am This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2025 finalists, chosen from a total of 107 submissions. “Each of these three story collections is so original in conception and brilliantly executed that only the person who wrote them could have done so. […]


Dow hits worst streak in more than 40 years as Fed eyes slower rate cuts in 2025 with incoming Trump admin

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid to its worst losing streak in more than four decades as investor hopes that the Federal Reserve will aggressively cut interest rates next year continued to diminish. The central bankers wrap up their last two-day meeting of the year Wednesday, when they are widely expected to announce another quarter-point […]


Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson sentenced to nearly 10 years for defrauding investors

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Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-’til-you-make-it startup culture. So extreme that another Ozy executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype Ozy to investment bankers — while Watson coached him, prosecutors said. […]


‘Moana 2’-led Thanksgiving box office could be best in years

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Auliʻi Cravalho voices Moana in Disney Animation’s “Moana 2.” Disney The domestic box office is poised for its biggest Thanksgiving haul since the pandemic thanks to a Polynesian princess, a pair of witches and a revenge-fueled gladiator. Disney’s “Moana 2” is set to hit theaters Wednesday and generate between $120 million and $150 million in […]


WNBA Finals Game 5 game draws highest viewership in 25 years

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The New York Liberty celebrate after wining the 2024 WNBA Championship against the Minnesota Lynx during Game 5 of the 2024 WNBA Finals on October 20, 2024 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.  David Sherman | National Basketball Association | Getty Images It was a big finish for the 2024 WNBA season. The fifth […]