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- The Real-Life Love Story That Inspired Netflix's 'Voicemails For Isabelle'
Leah McKendrick reveals the true love story behind Netflix’s 'Voicemails for Isabelle,' the comedy show that inspired the rom-com and what nearly ended her Hollywood dreams.
- Both U.S. and Chinese AI firms are setting up shop in Singapore. Can the country become Asia’s neutral AI hub?
"It’s easiest to operate in the region if I have people in Singapore—it’s where conversations are happening."
- Royal Ascot 2026: The King, The Contenders, The Landaus, The Royal Box
Laden with tradition, Royal Ascot rolled this week in fine weather, with splendid horses, and some 300,000 visitors dressed to the nines. The Royal Box was teeming.
- Trump Stands His Ground On Controversial Meloni Comment—Here’s What He Said
Trump reportedly claimed that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “begged” for a photo with him at France’s G7 summit this week.
- One Week After Kennedy Center Removed Trump’s Name—Tarps Still Block Sign
The Kennedy Center says President Donald Trump’s name was taken off the building’s facade, but a tarp has prevented onlookers from seeing it for themselves.
Technology
- Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
- The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
- As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
- A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people were unconvinced. But Subquadratic has started to bring the receipts, sharing the…
- The inevitable weakness of metrics
There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me and the nature of measurement. Like a lot…
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