7th Street Burger is a small quick-service burger chain with dozens of locations in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. Since opening in 2021, the chain has quickly gained a reputation for its no-frills approach to burger making, with crispy patties, gooey cheese, and the chain’s signature sauce. I ordered a
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Christine Casady, a 75-year-old American retiree. It has been edited for length and clarity. My husband is an avid traveler and because of that, we have traveled extensively for almost three decades. Ten years before I retired, we started taking longer trips and
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Koyo Murata, 25, founder and operator of Villa ASO guest house in Taiki, Mie Prefecture, Japan. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I grew up in a quintessential rural town in Japan with about 8,000 people. My elementary and middle schools only
It’s Altman against Musk once again. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the recent attention he received from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk must mean his company is doing a good job. “There are many benchmarks that suggest 5.6 soles is the best model in the world right now,” Altman wrote in X on Saturday, referring to
Another leader of OpenAI’s security strategy is leaving, joining a growing list of employees who have left the company’s security and alignment teams in recent years. Johannes Heidecke, head of OpenAI’s Security Systems team, is leaving as the company reorganizes its research and security work under a single leader. “We are grateful for Johannes’ contributions
From my first week in Toronto I knew it wasn’t the place for me. However, it took me six years, a death, a breakup, and the loss of my dream job to buy a one-way ticket out of there. It was never my intention to settle in Toronto, but when love called, I responded. The