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- Bad Bunny Stops Shy Of Charting A New No. 1 Song
Bad Bunny's "EOO" returns to its all-time high of No. 2 on Billboard's Latin Streaming Songs chart as Karol G's latest smash blocks him from a new champion.
- Fathers Should Raise Children ‘As Much As Women’: Gloria Steinem's Chat With Hillary Clinton
Steinem long argued that men becoming equal, nurturing parents is a cornerstone of achieving true gender equality.
- Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs despite double-digit growth as it makes room for its robotaxi future
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the cuts will make Uber “faster and smarter” as it invests billions into autonomous vehicles
- As Market Interventions Pick Up, ‘Stablecoins’ Look Anything But
There's nothing risk-free in dollars, their digital derivatives, or the securities that pay out dollar income streams.
- Adria Arjona’s ‘Onslaught’ Rotten Tomatoes Review Score Is In
Adria Arjona, possible future Wonder Woman, has a different action movie out this week, Onslaught, and its Rotten Tomatoes score is in.
Technology
- Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
- The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming
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. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents. In response, they’re increasingly turning to content-monitoring apps that scan their children’s texts, photos, emails,…
- Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It’s costing us.
If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for their crops are especially aware of just how far the ripple effects of the conflict in Iran have spread. Fertilizer prices have been on a…
- Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains…
- Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants
Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.
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