At YouTube Brandcast on Wednesday night, the finale of a three-day blitz of upfront presentations in New York, Lady Gaga achieved the rarest of things: a standing ovation and screams of enthusiasm from a crowd of advertisers. The pop star’s scorching 20-minute set closed things on a high note and received the opposite of the…
The strategy is an old one for Republicans: Cut taxes for a few years, avoiding the need to account for their cost over the long term, and bet that the reductions become popular enough that Congress will later vote to continue them. The tax bill that Republicans are now putting together on Capitol Hill takes…
Russia on Wednesday released a list of officials who will attend peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey. But a key person was missing: President Vladimir V. Putin. The absence on the list of the Russian leader, who ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that began the war, was a strong indication that Mr….
Placebo testing has been part of the process since the 1940s. It’s unclear what additional measures would achieve — but it may slow development.
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI is rolling out GPT-4.1, its new non-reasoning large language model (LLM) that balances high performance with lower cost, to users of ChatGPT. The company is beginning with its paying subscribers on ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and…
U.S. and UCLA gymnast Jordan Chiles is a two-time Olympian and three-time NCAA individual champion. She looks completely comfortable in her own skin as she’s performing a floor routine to music by empowering artists like Beyoncé and proudly displaying the more than 20 “amazing art pieces” she has tattooed on her body. For much of…
Halle Bailey got a restraining order against her ex DDG. I hope she’s safe now and I’m glad the court granted the restraining order. [Just Jared]Cardi B stepped out with Stefon Diggs this week. [Hollywood Life]Cooper Koch for Calvin Klein (too many K sounds). [Socialite Life]Another F1 trailer is out, please don’t support Brad Pitt….
The World Economic Forum, the organization behind the annual gathering of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, is investigating allegations of improper behavior by its founder, Klaus Schwab. The board of the World Economic Forum opened an inquiry into Mr. Schwab in April after receiving a letter, anonymously attributed to current and former staff members, claiming…
A 23-year-old influencer was shot and killed on Tuesday at a beauty salon in Jalisco, Mexico, while she was livestreaming on TikTok, according to the state prosecutor’s office. The influencer, Valeria Márquez, was working at the salon in Zapopan, part of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, and streaming to some of her 113,000 followers on…
Venus Isn’t (Geologically) Dead A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” created by ongoing geological activity By Elise Cutts edited by Lee Billings The northern hemisphere of Venus, as captured in radar data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft. Some of the circular features seen in…
