This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sarah Silbiger, a 30-year-old freelance video and photojournalist based in Philadelphia. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My partner and I are both journalists. We worked straight through the pandemic, and it was unrelenting. After covering such partisan politics, I really wanted to
Regulators and researchers spent the past year warning that Chinese AI models like DeepSeek come with Beijing’s censorship baked in, but a growing body of research suggests American AI models may not be entirely immune from it. A peer-reviewed study published in Nature found evidence that Chinese state-controlled media makes its way into AI training
Two US Army 4th Infantry Division soldiers sat on the barren desert earth at Fort Irwin, California. One wore first-person-view goggles and held a drone controller. The other watched the drone’s feed on a laptop. After a few moments of setup, the Neros Archer lifted off, the buzz loud up close and still audible at
Microsoft has begun to integrate its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps, starting a process that will culminate in a super app planned to feature chat, coding, and autonomous functions. The company said that it is starting to roll out a unified experience across the two platforms, beginning this week with a small subset of users.
My 78-year-old dad has had a 15-year love affair with Paris. Every summer like clockwork, he and my stepmom escape their New England home and make their annual pilgrimage to the French capital. Even though my older sister and I have done our fair share of our own adventures, we had still never been to
The image of hoodie-wearing college students launching billion-dollar businesses from their dorm rooms has become an entrepreneurship cliché. And while leaders say there are advantages to being a young founder—having more energy and fewer responsibilities—there are also perks to starting a business later in life. Actress Jennifer Garner became a cofounder of $732 million business
