
Billionaires’ neighbors are cashing in by selling their properties
The rear facade of the mansion. Happy Saturday! Are you in the throes of planning your Spring Break trip? Learn from one mother who planned an epic family vacation for 18 family members that ended up being a “nightmare.” Ouch! On the agenda: They waited until their 30s to have kids. Now, they’ve hit an…

I took my children to Space Club, an indoor play area in NYC. It felt expensive for 3 kids but was well worth the price.
The author took her kids to an indoor play area in Brooklyn and loved it. When I found out I was expecting twins in 2019, I panicked. There were many reasons for my stress, but a big one was that I didn’t know how we could afford to raise three young kids in New York…

Investigators recovered black boxes from the DC plane collision. Here’s what’s next in the crash investigation.
The NTSB said Thursday it had recovered cockpit data recorders from the plane that crashed on approach to Washington, DC. Investigators recovered the recording devices, or black boxes, from both aircraft involved in Wednesday night’s midair crash near the Reagan Washington National Airport. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board, which is overseeing the…

Aviation experts have been warning about the risk of a passenger aircraft collision for years
Emergency equipment stages at Gravelly Point, north of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, along the Potomac River, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Arlington, Va. This just in: Dell is “retiring” hybrid work and calling workers back to the office. Read the memo that CEO Michael Dell sent staff this morning, exclusively obtained by B-17. In…

The final minutes of American Airlines flight 5342
The American Airlines flight that crashed on Wednesday was given a runway change minutes before colliding midair with a military helicopter. In the minutes before an American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an air traffic controller requested a last-minute runway change. The regional jet, operated by PSA Airlines,…

OpenAI’s ‘cost-effective’ new AI model is here as pressure from DeepSeek heats up
OpenAI’s new mini model is here. OpenAI’s first small reasoning model is here just weeks after a Chinese AI startup emerged as a potential competitor to its artificial intelligence lineup. The ChatGPT maker launched OpenAI o3-mini, its “most cost-efficient model” in its reasoning series, on Friday. The model was previewed in December, but the release…

Meta’s 2025 is off to a ‘frenzied start.’ Here’s what we know about its plans for AI, glasses, social media, and more.
Coming off of a banner year in 2024, Meta is hitting the ground running in 2025. With a new president in the White House and the AI arms race in full swing amid DeepSeek mania, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has kept busy. Referring to Meta’s January as “a rather frenzied start,” Forrester VP and research director…

Taiwan bans government agencies from using DeepSeek, citing security concerns
Taiwan has banned government agencies from using DeepSeek, citing security concerns. Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs said in a statement on Friday that public sector workers and critical infrastructure facilities should not use the Chinese company’s technology, as “its operation involves cross-border transmission and information leakage” and “endangers national information security.” Chinese AI lab DeepSeek…

Sam Altman says OpenAI will embrace two new AI approaches, one from DeepSeek and another from Meta
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI When rivals take a different approach and succeed, it sometimes pays to change course. This is what Sam Altman said OpenAI will do, according to a Reddit AMA session on Friday. The discussion touched on several AI topics, but in particular Altman was asked about DeepSeek, which has taken the…