Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Observer’s Fall Restaurant Preview: The Most Anticipated Openings of the Season
Fall in New York City is often overshadowed by its flashier seasonal siblings—the glittering holiday lights of wintertime, the never-ending, late-night festivals of summer—but autumn has a propulsive, shiny energy (and by far the nicest weather) that makes it one of the best times of the year to visit. This sense of promise is due…
Read MoreAnthropic researcher abruptly quits, warning AI ‘could kill us all’
A researcher for one of the largest and most valuable artificial intelligence companies publicly quit while raising the alarm that the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Jacob Coxon, who has performed pre-training research at Anthropic and OpenAI for the last three years, posted on X that “neither company is…
Read MoreAdam Sandler’s Sweet Bond With Daughters Sadie and Sunny Will Make You Fall Punch-Drunk in Love
But by all accounts, Sadie and Sunny seem to be a couple of normal kids (minus their dad getting tapped to officiate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s wedding, that’s pretty unusual) who are cool to be around on set and are growing up way too fast for their father’s taste. He said on Daddy Issues that, when…
Read MoreAI Is at a Turning Point
—BlackJack3D—Getty Images In the current AI development race, our horsepower is exploding, our speed is picking up exponentially, but our ability to steer—and if needed, to hit the brakes—has not kept pace. Recent cybersecurity incidents have given us a real-world preview of what it looks like to lose control of AI. But the issue won’t…
Read MoreWith Republican Convention, Trump Hopes to Pull His Party Out of a Tailspin
Trump is not deterred by the environment even as he seems oblivious to it. He is sitting on a $400 million political warchest that Republicans are eyeing as it, well, just sits there. While Trump will never again appear on a ballot, he has readied campaign-style ads highlighting what he sees as his accomplishments. As…
Read MoreDarius Slayton wasn’t everything you wanted him to be — but he had a hell of a Giants run
It can all be a blur, how a player can go from an overachiever to a contributor to a disappointment to a failure, in the minds of those who prefer to view careers in absolutes and focus on the extremes. Darius Slayton was not a great player for the Giants. But for a fifth-round draft…
Read MoreCrew Girl Cast Reveals the Grueling Training Process for the Rowing Netflix Series
The cast of Crew Girl was not doggy paddling through their rowing training. As stars Miku Martineau, Sam Braun and Kyle Clark revealed, preparing to portray rowers on the Netflix series was quite the feat. Especially for Martineau, as she was filming another movie at the same time she was training to play Teagan Tao,…
Read MoreDating Apps Are Dying
Matches offer a clear metric of success and an immediate burst of validation, even when neither person intends to begin a conversation. Because they arrive unpredictably, they can operate as intermittent rewards: each disappointing swipe carries the possibility that the next one will produce a match. That uncertainty keeps us returning. But it can also…
Read MoreThe Promise of the Kurdish Peace
Turkey’s embrace of a political process—instead of simply pursuing a decisive military path—to end the conflict made it more acceptable to the PKK leadership and the Kurdish movement. Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, had to persuade his comrades to dissolve their organization, abandon the armed struggle, and choose political struggle. Unfavorable broader regional…
Read MoreIceland Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Trump’s Expansionist Map
How Iceland responded to Trump’s U.S. takeover map Iceland’s foreign ministry said Tuesday that Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir had summoned Long to “convey a clear message that the image was wholly inappropriate.” Gunnarsdóttir told reporters that “people within the U.S. administration” had advised her to “not take the current U.S. President literally.” “But we…
Read MoreCostco set to expand with 14 new warehouses across US and Canada
Costco is slated to expand across North America over the next couple of months, with more than a dozen warehouses scheduled to open in the US and Canada. The company has already been growing this year in the US and beyond, opening stores in California, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New York, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, as…
Read MoreBen Shelton wins classic five-set thriller over Carlos Alcaraz in latest match ever at US Open
At 3:33 a.m. on Wednesday morning, under the lights and in front of as many people who had dared to sacrifice the night of sleep and the next day of work to stick around and witness as good a tennis match as most of them would ever see, Ben Shelton let all his emotion go.…
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