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Start-ups are paying white-collar professionals to teach their jobs to artificial intelligence models. It’s a bonanza. It’s bleak. Where will it end?

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You slide your hand into your coat pocket and find an old, folded $100 bill. In the other pocket, you find a coin.

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The Ming founder used the many marriages to consolidate alliances with his generals

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In 1795, John Thelwall, the son of a silk mercer, wrote about his memories of the weavers’ gardens:

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Clockwise from top left: David Chalmers, Dillon Plunkett, Rosie Campbell and Robert Long.Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times (top left); Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

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## American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up

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## Older Adults Are No Longer Staying in ‘Empty Shell’ Marriages

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But now there are better, simpler answers. Bloomberg’s Denitsa Tsekova reports:

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The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help.

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## When we asked dozens of people how they pursue happiness in 2026, a single theme stood out: To be American, it seems, is to strive.

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Sartre challenged the idea that the only viable response to the Second World War was nihilism

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In 1906, John Philip Sousa argued that the phonograph would destroy amateur musicianship

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_Updated at 3:50 p.m. ET on June 24, 2026_

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Tavia wanted to show me a painting of a Hindu deity riding a white bull, four blue arms reaching out in every direction, that Kent had left me in his will.

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This week I have been in the city of Hangzhou in China for a workshop. Every morning, I have walked the shore of Xihu, or West Lake, the graceful expanse of water lapping the city’s western edge.

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## She Labeled a Swim Party ‘Muslims Only.’ The Response Ravaged Her Life.

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For generations, writing up a summary of a patient exam was a vital step for physicians trying to make an accurate diagnosis. What happens when A.I. does it for them?

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> … my dimensions are as well compact,

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‘There are some sprouts that fail to flower, just as surely as there are some flowers that fail to bear fruit!’

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Governments and gang leaders use some of the same techniques to recruit people to execute violence

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“Find us a jazz station,” I tell him.

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> They disembarked, and lifted from the ship

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_(This is based on a talk I gave at the Oxford Union.)_

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As co-chief executive of the start-up Prometheus, the Amazon founder is using A.I. to improve how devices ranging from computers to jet engines are made.

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## Over 14 years of todos recorded in text

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The author’s mother with her parents on her first day of kindergarten, Park Avenue, New York City, 1963

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### Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Again

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In a country as prosperous as Switzerland, one could be forgiven for asking, Enough of what?

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Consider this passage that Claude generated in the style of Henry Fielding:

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“Seven and then door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, and door-close.”

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“We find them on the internet,” Imam told me. “We bring them here. And we say, ‘How about a life in reality instead?’ ”

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Despite its early stumbles, Google’s Gemini has leapfrogged ChatGPT in relevance and usefulness. Soon, it will be ubiquitous.

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## Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

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Ms. Saxbe is a clinical psychologist and the author of “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives.”

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We are thought to treat each other more fairly than you’d expect using a cold economic calculus

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## A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.

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## Netflix Is Done Coddling Hollywood

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But why does she think that love is so central? And is this an idea worth taking seriously today?

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Few would argue it is the job of government to provide a firm with consumers

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How prediction-market ‘sharps’ have made millions wagering on everything from war to Rotten Tomatoes.

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“Tilly Norwood,” a computer-generated character described as “the world’s first A.I. actress,” has become a flashpoint in the debate over the technology’s use in media.Credit...Particle 6

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Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a video-generation tool and simplifying online shopping.

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Reason is in danger of being demonised as a white man’s oppressive tool

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## A Family Secret No More

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He claimed that ‘the same blood was running’ in the veins of an English soldier ‘as in the veins of the dark Bengalese’

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Everything that has happened in space and time happened on the far fringes. The process of creation and innovation is delegated to the margins.

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So what are emergent particles? Are they as real as elementary particles? And, perhaps most importantly, can they tell us anything new about the nature of reality?

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These observations seemed to cast doubt on the humanist universalism underpinning their theoretical enterprise

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The frequent measurements serve as a constant, controlled feedback loop for the athlete and coach

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To lift the floor for the 800 million people living on less than $3 a day, we don’t need more projects; we need more payrolls.

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## Longevity Science Is Overhyped. But This Research Really Could Change Humanity.

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Dwarkesh Patel in his office and studio in San Francisco. “He’s very much in the community, in the inner ring,” one tech executive said. Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times

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A proper relationship with the environment depends on learning to see the world and our place in it entirely differently

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> J_OURNALIST_: When you were starting out as a writer, you were black, impoverished, and homosexual. You must have said to yourself, “Gee, how disadvantaged can I get?”

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A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.

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This was no accident. Young professionals from nontraditional backgrounds were more vulnerable

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In a connected world, those microbes and resistant genes will not remain local.

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## Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore

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### The significance of Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity

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“Seven and then door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, door-close, and door-close.”

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Here was someone who understood, in a visceral way as a young man, the terror of loneliness and lack of meaning

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Wright wanted an architecture that taught people to expect more of life, not less

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Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut.

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Here’s a number that should change how you think about retirement: **12**.

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Here’s a stat that will probably surprise you: **the vast majority of retirees still have at least 80% of their savings after two decades in retirement.**

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Matthew Gallagher, 41, built his start-up, Medvi, with artificial intelligence and few humans.Credit...Maggie Shannon for The New York Times

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## China and the Future of Science

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My wife and I were sitting at a cafe in Bastrop, Texas, looking across Main Street at an empty historic storefront.

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> If the unconscious mind has no statute of limitations, then it becomes difficult to draw a bright line between appropriation on the one hand and inspiration on the other.

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## At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over

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In the early 1970s disaster struck the Swiss watch industry. Now people call it the quartz crisis, but in fact it was a compound of three separate disasters that all happened at about the same time.

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No computers are shown in the ad. A voice at the end promises that the Apple Macintosh will make it so that 1984 doesn’t feel like _1984_.

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- Apple’s two living cofounders, Wozniak and Wayne

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Living a fulfilling, less regretful life has a lot to do with making authentic choices

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In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

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#### **Not all regulations are equal**

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He may yet be vindicated, but I fear not in our time.

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