A Walmart Supercenter is a fluorescent palace of American consumption. For American shoppers, it’s a utilitarian one-stop shop where groceries, TVs, tires and just about everything else are under one huge roof. However, for some international World Cup fans, it is a viral tourist sensation. Many fans decided to visit Walmart during their stay in
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Lena Koropey, 48, whose mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Koropey’s mother currently lives with her, but Koropey plans to build an ADU in her backyard and move into it. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
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How do you measure whether an AI is really good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside recently emailed me with a fascinating real-world benchmark. Instead of giving the AI models another standardized test, Obside had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Kimi bet on World Cup matches using live odds from
I sent four kids (my son and three stepchildren) to college, so I thought I’d experienced almost everything in this process: campus visits, moves, loans, roommate problems, and family weekends. As my youngest son prepares for college, I thought there wouldn’t be many new experiences for me, but I was wrong. My last child (who