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
Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham, who died Saturday at the age of 71, had a major influence on corporate tax rates, tariff policies and defense spending. Graham’s office said in a statement Sunday that the four-term senator died after a “brief and sudden” illness. Graham, an ally of President Donald Trump, had just returned from a
Growing up, my sisters and I didn’t have opportunities for family trips or exciting travel adventures. Mom didn’t know how to drive and dad was away all week as a salesman. An exciting and adventurous family trip for us was going to the grocery store when Dad finally got home on Saturday (if we were