Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to ‘Behave’ in Trump Meeting
It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine’s leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state.
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OpenAI Model Earns Gold-Medal Score at International Math Olympiad and Advances Path to Artificial General Intelligence
A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an artificial intelligence model to think on its own for hours so that it was capable of writing math proofs. Their goal wasn’t…
‘The Office’ Follow-Up ‘The Paper’ To Drop All Epiodes For Premiere
The Office follow-up series, The Paper, will no longer be released on a weekly schedule when the show premieres on September 4; instead, it will pivot to a binge release. All 10 episodes will be available to stream at once. The Paper, a mockumentary from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, is set in the same universe as NBC’s Emmy…
Walmart’s Earnings Show ‘Momentum’ as Tariffs Raise Prices
After mixed reports from retail rivals, Walmart reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its sales forecast for the year.
Former Longhorn becoming key part of Saints offensive line
Kelvin Banks Jr through two preseason games (23 pass pro snaps): • 0 pressures• 0 sacks• 0 hurries• 0 QB hits• 90.1 pass block effectiveness grade Good start for the top 10 pick at LT. pic.twitter.com/eGwsNBUm2n — Ryan Fowler (@_RyanFowler_) August 18, 2025 When the NFL regular season begins, many in Austin will have their…
Facing a ‘Reading Crisis,’ Denmark Wants to Make Books Cheaper
The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.
How to tackle environmental issues when the world can’t agree
An artwork in Geneva, Switzerland, where talks on a global plastic treaty took place last week FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images On 14 August, exhausted UN delegates filed into a windowless plenary hall, after hours of intensive debate and little sleep, to watch their hopes of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution evaporate. The…
How ESPN finally made the leap from cable TV to the app era
The first name in sports’s product and tech chief shares with Fast Company how it’s melding games, data, wagering, and even a TikTok-like feed across multiple screens. CEOs rarely talk about plans that are a half-decade or more away from reaching reality. Yet way back in 2015, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed the company would…
bitchy | Marca: King Charles thinks the Wales family’s move to Forest Lodge is stupid
There’s been some fascinating backlash to the Prince and Princess of Wales’s planned move to Forest Lodge. It’s reminded me, in a way, of the backlash to Kate’s “cancerfree” video last September. Within the video, Kate announced that she was now “cancerfree,” and then Kensington Palace tried to block reporters from using that word. The…
Trump’s Attacks on Fed Overshadow a Critical Moment for the Central Bank
The president’s calls for Lisa Cook, a Fed governor, to resign are diverting attention from economic issues as top central bankers from around the world gather in Jackson, Wyo.