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Microsoft announced yesterday it would lay off 4,800 staffers, including 1,600 roles that were eliminated from its Xbox division yesterday. An additional 1,600 roles will be eliminated at Xbox through the fiscal year. In an email to staffers, Xbox ...

What skills will matter in an AI economy? Few things are certain, but one seems to be: that cross-disciplinary builders are becoming more valuable. As machines automate the routine part of expertise, what stays scarce is a skill set now captured by ...

Wall Street banks have high hopes for SpaceX, but at the moment, shares of Elon Musk's rocket market appear to be earthbound. Many of the investment firms that underwrote SpaceX's initial public offering issued their first research notes about the ...

A prescription refill program that quietly launched in Utah earlier this year has kicked off a big medical debate: Is artificial intelligence ready to take over tasks that, until now, could only be performed by doctors? The program allows Utah ...

Most people know John Oliver as the Emmy-winning host of HBO's Last Week Tonight. But lately, he's been popping up somewhere viewers never expected: daytime soap operas. After recent appearances on General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, fans are ...

A woman who previously dated Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report, leading prominent supporters to pull their endorsements and throwing a ...

Gone are the days of surfing real estate listings far beyond their reach, many budget-minded Americans have instead begun scrolling foreclosures. Foreclosure listings received more than 26% more page views than the average listing in the first half ...

For the past two years, the dominant unit of AI work was the prompt. Write a better prompt, get a better answer. Learn the right phrasing, the right examples, the right constraints, the right tone. Prompt engineering became the first folk discipline ...

Intelligence is a powerful tool. But it's also a trap. Sometimes the bad decisions that sink great companies or end good marriages come from thinking very hard--in the wrong direction, with total conviction, and nobody around willing to interrupt.

Last week, biohacker Bryan Johnson shook the internet with a viral announcement: He'd been diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis, or AIG. "My stomach is eating itself," Johnson wrote at the start of a lengthy social media post. The condition, he ...