Good morning. Phil Wahba writing from New York this morning. As consumer and retail CEOs see the holiday season inching closer, they’re trying to figure out whether U.S. customers will keep up their healthy pace of shopping—even in the face of all political and economic tumult—or finally pull back. There’s one thing chief executives agree
As AI threatens to upend white-collar work, some professionals are attempting to flip the script. Instead of being outboxed by the bots, they’re building their own — and bragging about how many AI agents they manage. Mason Scurry says his AI consulting firm has more than 30 AI “employees” — complete with names, job titles,
Personality plays into how people think, feel, behave and interact with their environment.Credit: PeopleImages/Getty A study of more than one million people has uncovered around 1,200 genetic variants that are associated with personality traits, and is by far the largest effort of its kind. The researchers found that common genetic variants account for a small
American coming-of-age comedies rarely beat with such uncomfortable verisimilitude. In the bilingual “Mustache” — the first feature from writer-director Imran J. Khan — 13-year-old Pakistani American high schooler Ilyas (Atharv Verma) undergoes an awkward adjustment from a private Islamic institution to a generic American high school. The story’s universality is born from its cultural specificity,
