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Moulton says Sen. Markey, 80, is too old for another term. Young Massachusetts Democrats are divided

BOSTON — In a race that has centered on whether Ed Markey , 80, is too old for another U.S. Senate term, the Massachusetts Democrat’s answer to a recent debate question was especially striking.

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

South Korea may be getting too old to take advantage of its AI boom

South Korea is one of the biggest winners of the AI boom. It’s home to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the two largest manufacturers of memory chips. Chip workers are flashing bonuses of around $400,000. The KOSPI, Korea’s benchmark index, is up almost 60% for the year so far.

Women's Professional Soccer Has a Champagne Problem: A Packed Calendar Around the World Cup That Will Test the Sustainability of Its Mega Growth

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) insists that too much of a good thing is just a myth, at least in the context of the sport.

Opinion

Dr. Burton is the author of “Self-Made: Creating Our Identities From da Vinci to the Kardashians” and a director of the Can Beauty Save the World project.

Why the AI economy is like a bad dating app — drowning in decks, pilot purgatory — and it's playing out like the dotcom bubble, except worse

Amy Webb was on her long Sunday bike ride, the one she takes when she’s not training for a race, when the thought arrived fully formed. As she posted on LinkedIn recently: every CEO she talks to is buying abundance, and none are budgeting for the cost of abundance. And she talks to CEOs every day for a living.

Cisco director of engineering on managing agents: I'm not working more, but work can feel more intense

Sergio Freitas said that using agents to do more work results in more code that need to be reviewed by engineers.

Why Gen X should stop planning around an inheritance that may never arrive

There is a line item in a lot of Gen X retirement plans that nobody writes down.

Help Wanted: ‘Forward-Deployed’ Humans for the A.I. Era

Start-ups are using the military-derived term to glorify customer-facing work as clients seek people to help set up artificial intelligence tools.

One NAYA restaurant nearly broke the bank. Now its founder wants 200

When Hady Kfoury opened his first restaurant in Manhattan in 2008, he was already out of money. He had raised cash from friends and family to bring the Lebanese food he grew up eating to New York, but construction had cost more than he expected. He still owed money to his general contractor and resorted to buying equipment on eBay just to get the 54-seat restaurant open.

I didn't tell my Y Combinator batchmates I had a kid. I worried they'd think I wasn't hardcore enough.

Nicholas Charriere had a kid before starting at Y Combinator. "Saying 'I just had a kid and I love spending time with them' is not the vibe," he said.