A woman paid under $6,000 to add a glass wall to her open-concept living room, and it made her home more functional
A glass wall transformed the space. Shelby Vanhoy has been in home decor mode for nearly a year now. Vanhoy, 34, lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, 2-year-old son, and two dogs. They relocated from New York City to North Carolina in December 2023 to be closer to family. “My parents are here,…
My wife and her ex are competing to see who can spoil their kids more. How do I get them to stop before they’re both out of money?
The reader is not pictured Dear For Love & Money, My wife and I got married a little over a year ago. When we first met, my wife realized she was attracted to women. She left her husband when she fell in love with me. Her teen children blame me for ruining their family, and…
Office vacancies surged and sale prices dropped further this year as the market entered its ‘slog’ phase
Office vacancies surged and sale prices dropped further this year as the market entered its ‘slog’ phase The US office market slumped again this year, entering a new phase of downturn that could last for years to come, a report said this week. The report from data industry provider CommercialEdge shows office vacancies jumped more…
Welcome to the Retail AboxalypseOne more reason shoppers are giving up on retail: piles of boxes crowding the aisles
Robyn gets a kick out of being able to say she’s worked at both the “good” and the “bad” Dollar Trees in her West Texas town. The stores may be only a few miles from each other geographically, but qualitywise, there’s an enormous gulf between them. Shocked customers who have been to both locations remark…
OpenAI launched its best new AI model in September. It already has challengers, one from China and another from Google.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman In September, OpenAI unveiled a radically new type of AI model called o1. In a matter of months, rivals introduced similar offerings. On Thursday, Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, which uses reasoning techniques that look a lot like o1. Even before that, in November, a Chinese company announced DeepSeek, an…
Google’s CEO just clarified what ‘Googleyness’ means in 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, California. “Googleyness” has long been a vague word for the search giant Google. Once used to determine whether a candidate would be a good fit for hiring, it has evolved in definition over the years. Google CEO Sundar Pichai just attempted to clarify…
The tragedy of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji puts ‘Death by LLM’ back in the spotlight
The OpenAI logo The recent death of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji has brought an under-discussed AI debate back into the limelight. AI models are trained on information from the internet. These tools answer user questions directly, so fewer people visit the websites that created and verified the original data. This drains resources from content…
Jingle bots, jingle botsI let an AI elf do my Christmas shopping for me. It got weird, fast.
Stumped on what to get my mom for Christmas this year, I turned, desperately, to Perplexity AI’s chatbot. In response to my initial broad question: “What should I get my mom for Christmas?,” the robo-elf gave me links to several gift guides published on sites including Target and Country Living. Then the chatbot suggested generic…
OpenAI unveils the o3 and o3 mini on the last day of its 12 days of ‘Shipmas’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and members of his team as they announced new products on the first day of “Shipmas.” OpenAI released new features and products ahead of the holidays, a campaign it called “Shipmas.” The company saved the most exciting news for the final day: a preview of o3, its most advanced model yet,…
