OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, nearly tripling its valuation in less than 10 months, according to three people with knowledge of the deal. The company would sell existing shares in a so-called tender offer led by the venture firm Thrive Capital, the…
Maybe you noticed it on runways at New York Fashion Week. Maybe you glimpsed it on the heads of some “Swans.” Or maybe you saw it at the Grammy Awards, on Miley Cyrus, who paired all five of her outfits with a leonine mane. Big hair, it seems, is back. Models in the recent Marc…
The S2 cognition test may go the way of the Wonderlic. According to a report from The Athletic one sports agency is directing its NFL Draft prospects to not participate in any cognition tests in their pre-draft process this year. The organization, Athletes First, emailed NFL teams last month to notify them of the move….
An investigation is underway into how a woman boarded an American Airlines flight at Nashville International Airport and flew to Los Angeles without showing a ticket last week, officials said on Friday. Law enforcement met Flight 1393 upon its arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on Feb. 7, American Airlines said in a statement. The…
The average patient today, confronted with the prospect of using a medicinal leech, or Hirudo medicinalis, a faceless aquatic invertebrate with a lust for blood, might feel some queasiness, if not outright repulsion. But the parasitic worm has been touted as a cure-all by various ancient medicine traditions: It can be seen in Ancient Egyptian…
The News Growing numbers of children and adolescents are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs to take simultaneously, according to a new study in the state of Maryland. The phenomenon is increasing despite warnings that psychotropic drug combinations in young people have not been tested for safety or studied for their impact on the developing brain….
After three years of pending lawsuits against dozens of women, Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson may be forced to testify once again in one of the last remaining sexual misconduct cases against him. Rob Parker’s NFL picks for Week 13 An attorney for a woman who filed a suit against Watson in October 2022 asked…
Good morning. We had a fine day on the water last weekend, fishing for critters on the flats north and west of Big Coppitt Key in southernmost Florida. Dinner was going to be early, with a movie, sleep and another trip in the morning. I made bulgogi on the grill next to the orchids, underneath…
Artificial intelligence companies have been at the vanguard of developing the transformative technology. Now they are also racing to set limits on how A.I. is used in a year stacked with major elections around the world. Last month, OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot, said it was working to prevent abuse of its tools…
“This building was a late 19th-century millinery. From 1996 to 2021, it housed an Arts and Crafts-era furniture showroom. We moved in in August of 2022. My dream for Young Space was that it could be a bit like Black Mountain College [the groundbreaking liberal arts college in North Carolina that operated between 1933 and…
