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Americans are using AI more than ever, but only 21% trust it — and 70% now fear it will eliminate jobs

A poll from Quinnipiac University reveals a widening paradox at the heart of America's relationship with artificial ...
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Court blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting, finds Trump administration’s ‘kill switch’ claim had no evidence

A California federal judge has reportedly temporarily blocked the Pentagon from designating AI company Anthropic as a supply ...
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Not everyone who cancels plans at the last minute is flaky. Some of them said yes from the version of themselves that felt capable that morning and then spent the en…

The person who says yes at 9 AM and the person who cancels at 5 PM are, in a meaningful psychological sense, not the same ...
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People who keep their circle small aren’t antisocial. They genuinely learned that intimacy and popularity are opposing forces, even though loneliness occasionally sh…

The instinct to treat a small social circle as evidence of a social problem is understandable. Culture consistently equates ...
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Psychology says people who ask ‘how can I learn to be more empathetic’ already possess the one trait that matters most — self-awareness — while people who clai…

A woman named Rachel sat across from me at a coffee shop on Amsterdam Avenue last winter, stirring her oat milk latte with a ...
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I used to be unhappy and I blamed everything around me – until I realized I’d built an entire life around avoiding the one conversation I needed to have with myself

For a long stretch of my late twenties, I had a list. Not written down anywhere, but maintained with some care in the back of ...
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The friends you made between 19 and 24 know a version of you that your current partner, your therapist, and your coworkers will never meet. And the grief isn’t abou…

The friends you made between 19 and 24 weren't just close — they were witnesses to an unfinished version of you that no ...
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Overthinkers often don’t realize it but psychology says the way they experience happiness is fundamentally different from most people – they can’t feel joy without ...

Most people, when something good happens, simply experience it. The promotion, the relationship going well, the day that ...
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I’m 66 and the thing I learned too late isn’t that I should have traveled more or worked less — it’s that I spent forty years waiting for permission to want things

I know what I was supposed to say when I got to this age. Travel more. Work less. Spend more time with the people who matter. Worry less about what everyone ...
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One satellite, one GPU, $1.1 billion valuation: the reality behind Starcloud’s orbital data center ambitions

Starcloud, a space compute startup, has reportedly closed a $170 million Series A at a $1.1 billion valuation, making it one of the fastest Y Combinator ...
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Psychology says the worst part of people-pleasing isn’t the exhaustion – it’s realizing that no one actually knows you because you never gave them the real version

There is a particular kind of tiredness that people-pleasers know well. It's not the tiredness of hard work. It's the tiredness of performance, the exhaustion ...
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Silicon Valley startup backed by Tim Draper pitches growing brainless human clones for organ harvesting and brain transplants

A secretive Silicon Valley startup has been quietly pitching investors and elite longevity conferences on one of the most ethically charged propositions in ...