When Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, announced last year that his company would release an artificial intelligence system, Jeffrey Emanuel had reservations. Mr. Emanuel, a part-time hacker and full-time A.I. enthusiast, had tinkered with “closed” A.I. models, including OpenAI’s, meaning the systems’ underlying code could not be accessed or modified. When Mr. Zuckerberg…
In 2014, Fie Isolde’s future husband wrote her a 28th birthday card that, she said, was “full of dreams about all the things we were going to do.” “When I got the card,” the Danish jewelry designer recalled last month during a video interview from her boutique in the Sycamore neighborhood of Los Angeles, “my…
When I was in second grade, my elementary school principal convinced my parents that children should not watch TV on weekdays. Naturally, I developed a crippling, lifelong obsession with television. Twenty-six years later, I’ve watched enough TV to be wary of spinoffs. Most don’t live up to the success of the I.P. that inspired them…
There’s something distinctly satisfying about messy food: sauce dripping down the side of your mouth, juices drizzling across your fingers. It’s the experience you might have when eating a taco or a burger. And it’s most definitely the experience of eating doubles. A popular street food from Trinidad and Tobago, doubles are made up of…
