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- U.S.-Iran talks just started and Trump is already threatening to attack, causing negotiations to pause
Iranian state media said talks had entered a “difficult phase” and recessed after the “publication of an insulting message by the U.S. President.”
- Trump Says Reflecting Pool Repairs Will Begin ‘Immediately’
The president also blamed damage to the renovations on “vandals,” and said multiple people have been arrested.
- Why men keep dropping out of the labor force: It starts in childhood, when kids see how males around them struggle, economists say
"Our findings suggest that experience effects can turn short-run declines in labor demand into long-run declines in labor supply."
- UFC’s Dana White Says Elon Musk-Mark Zuckerberg Fight Talks Were ‘Real’
The UFC CEO said a proposed fight at Rome’s Colosseum would have cost an estimated $150 million.
- Danhausen Was Fumbled By AEW, Then He Became WWE’s Most Bankable Star
Danhausen has become the King of New York and a mainstream WWE sensation after falling through AEW's fingers like so many before him.
Technology
- Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations
At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.
- Review: Widow's Bay is a boldly original take on comedic horror
An eminently binge-able series that honors classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways
- The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
- 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…
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