Switzerland Is Asking Itself: Is 10 Million People Too Many?
As the world flocks to Davos, the host country ponders a population cap...
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As the world flocks to Davos, the host country ponders a population cap...
Billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability, anti-poverty gr...
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play hockey rivals who fall in love on HBO's "Heated Rivalry". Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max " Heated Rivalry" is a breakout hit on HBO Max about a gay hock...
Kruthika Jayatheertha Kruthika Jayatheertha Kruthika Jayatheertha left her Microsoft job to take an extended career break after maternity leave. She believes being present during her child's early yea...
Middle managers are taking on more direct reports after the "Great Flattening." dowell/Getty Images The average number of reports for managers is increasing as the "Great Flattening" p...
Eyewitnesses recall the scenes of suppression and bitter days many Iranians spend nowadays amid ongoing anti-government protests. Speaking to Euronews, they recount their personal experience from viol...
The author left San Francisco over a decade ago. Courtesy of the author I crave going home to the Bay Area, but long visits remind me why Spain feels right. The Bay Area feels car-bound, expensive, ru...
Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported o...
A Chinese phone application called “dead or alive” that helps users check in daily has become a top-ranked app, reflecting the trend of solo living among the country’s young people. The Sileme app, or...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...
Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...
The world’s billionaires grew richer than ever in 2025, charity Oxfam said on Monday, warning of “highly dangerous” political consequences as elites gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It sai...
People are taking to Instagram to reminisce 2016 in all its fishnet-stocking glory. Melodie Jeng/Getty Images 2016 is so back — at least on Instagram. Millennials are putting up pictures of them...
Paige Chenault Lohoefer founded The Birthday Project in 2012 Courtesy of This be Grace Paige Chenault Lohoefer is the founder of the nonprofit The Birthday Party Project. The organization celebrates k...
Eryn Bostwick, 37, is delaying having kids because of her student loan debt. Courtesy of Eryn Bostwick Eryn Bostwick, 37, is postponing having kids due to her student-loan debt. As a first-generation ...
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