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Enterprise AI today feels strangely familiar: The infrastructure is powerful. The capabilities are real. The demonstrations are impressive. Models can write, summarize, reason, code, search, retrieve, translate, classify, plan, and increasingly act. The raw machinery is there.  And yet, inside companies, the same pattern keeps repeating: pilots everywhere, transformation nowhere near the promise. The first article in this series argued that large language models were never built to run a company because companies operate through memory, context, feedback, constraints, state, incentives, and dependencies — not through isolated sequences of text. The second argued that enterprise AI must move from answers to outcomes,…

Looking for help with today’s Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you’re after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you’ll find everything you need to solve each of today’s Pips plus a full walkthrough for today’s Hard Pips. Sundays are always a little bittersweet. The weekend is too short! Just two days is hardly fair. It’s a good excuse to have some lazy time and kick back with a good book, some puzzle games and maybe a movie or some TV shows (which you can find in my handy weekend streaming…

Ring cameras in your neighborhood might be invading your privacy every time you take the dog out for a walk. In the latest lawsuit against Amazon over privacy concerns, Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt alleges that the company illegally violates the privacy of millions of Americans who unknowingly have their likeness captured and stored by Ring cameras without their consent. The class action complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, where Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is located. The lawsuit specifically concerns a new feature for Ring devices, introduced in December, known as Familiar Faces. That…

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – SEPTEMBER 09: SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 rocket sits on Launch Complex 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as it is prepared for another attempt to liftoff on September 9, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Polaris Dawn mission is a private spaceflight backed by Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder of payments platform company Shift4. During the mission, the astronauts will attempt the first spacewalk by a private company. The launch has been re-scheduled from Tuesday, August 27, to Tuesday, September 10th, at 3:38 am and has a four-hour window. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThere’s…

AI-related layoffs have captured everyone’s attention lately. Last month, Meta laid off 10% of its workforce—just months after committing up to $135 billion toward AI development this year. Other companies, such as Cloudflare, Coinbase, and PayPal, have also laid off or plan to lay off employees as they become “AI native.” Last year, a report from Forrester Research highlighted that 55% of employers regretted their decision to lay off staff due to artificial intelligence. And a Gartner prediction published earlier this year claims that 50% of all companies that replaced customer service or operational employees with AI will be forced…

Human biology was forged across millions of years of dietary variety. No one food can even come close to honoring that.gettyPicture a British sailor in the 1700s, six months into a transatlantic voyage. His gums are bleeding, his joints ache and his teeth are loosening from their sockets. He isn’t dying from starvation because his belly is full of salted meat and hardtack. He’s dying from the absence of a single molecule: vitamin C. Scurvy is one of humanity’s most instructive biological lessons, and it has nothing to do with quantity. The sailors were eating. They were simply eating wrong…

Finally, some good news for weary travelers. After battling long TSA lines and wait times earlier this year, airline passengers departing from Boston Logan International Airport now have the option to skip the lines and head straight to the gate, thanks to a new “first-in-the-nation” remote check-in pilot program, according to the Transportation Security Administration. “This is going to be a game-changer for so many people,” Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey told CBS News Boston. The pilot program, launched June 1, is being run in partnership with the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)—an independent public authority that runs and operates the Commonwealth’s…

Teslas for sale at a CarMax dealership. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)Getty ImagesUsed electric vehicles are hot. Demand is up. My Bolt EV is a great example. Only six months ago it was all doom and gloom for EVs after the Trump Administration ended the $7,500 tax credit in September and gas prices eased. But everything changed in February when gas prices spiked in the wake of U.S.-Iran hostilities. “When gas prices started climbing in March, we saw used EV listing views on our platform increase by 49% between the beginning of March and mid-May,” said Kevin Roberts, Director of…

I can recall feeling a little betrayed when I learned the backstory of my favorite cartoon. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe didn’t get its start as the brainchild of a television writer or a comic book artist. No, the muscle-bound toy came first—which meant my preferred entertainment was essentially a 30-minute commercial for action figures. (Battle Cat sold separately.) But even though He-Man’s origins seem crass and capitalistic, there’s real pop culture affection for him and his franchise; otherwise, there’d be no live-action Masters of the Universe in 2026. Creating He-Man may have been motivated by nothing more…

Argentina national team members work out during practice for the FIFA World Cup soccer Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Kansas City, Kan.. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.The FIFA World Cup starts in a matter of days. The biggest sporting spectacle in the world will be watched for its soccer competition, economic impact to host cities, and potential to produce national bragging rights. I am watching from my perspective as an atmospheric scientist. Parts of Asia, Europe, and the U.S. have dealt with unprecedented heat since May. Players struggled through the first week of the French…