It might be possible to outrun your next rent payment — if you live with roommates. Nike is offering a unique — and highly relevant — prize to two winners of a street race in New York City on August 29: “1 month of free rent.” “Step to the starting line on Orchard Street for
The AI industry’s next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker. Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover, share, and build AI models, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more. The startup has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders’ interest, and no deal has
Important milestones are usually celebrated with loved ones, but this year, for my birthday, I decided to take a bucket-list trip to Hong Kong and Japan — on my own. Originally, I’d planned to celebrate at a rooftop bar with friends, but this trip has been on my mind for years. Instead, I cancelled my
A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it. Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. It is suited for
Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.” A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported
Oura is looking into how its smart ring could be used to detect brain hemorrhages after billionaire investor Bill Ackman suggested such a feature could have helped his daughter. Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, shared this week that his 26-year-old daughter, Lucy, experienced a brain hemorrhage in February. He said data from her