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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.

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.

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.

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.

OpenAI Spearheads 100 Strong Letter on Cyber Defence

Major tech firms – including AWS, Google and Microsoft – urge governments to fund defensive tools, while critics call the manifesto self-serving

Singapore has overhauled its baby bonus scheme. Will it work to boost birth rates this time?

Singapore is overhauling its landmark baby bonus scheme, first introduced in 2001, as the city’s fertility rate and number of births fall to record lows.

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

The mayor of this desert city likens the U.S. West's water crisis to planning for a meteor. 'You can see it coming, but you can't get out of the way'

On the outskirts of Phoenix, a small town with a huge reliance on the Colorado River has capped growth, revived old wells and struck water deals.

With 'virtual speed bumps,' these cities have reduced crashes by rewarding slower drivers with fewer red lights

Officials struggled for years to curb high-speed crashes along a residential corridor cutting through Albuquerque, New Mexico, but simply punishing the lead-footed drivers didn’t seem to work.

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Small boats stand idle on cracked ground in a shriveled side channel of the Danube River in northern Serbia, where the water has receded into a couple of shrinking ponds under pressure from extreme drought and heat. Fish circle in the shallow waters.

The Earth is sizzling, but 'climate hushing' is hot right now among Democrats. 'People are increasingly freaked out about other issues'

Climate change has been the backdrop to Charles Hughes’ entire life, from kindergarten lessons about disappearing habitats to wildfire smoke billowing through the air he breathed while growing up in Colorado. But now that he’s a college student in Massachusetts, he said global warming is rarely a top issue.

New U.S. Sanctions Will Hit Ordinary Iranians Hard. That May Be the Whole Point as the Crashing Economy Stirs Fresh Protests

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out plans for an “economic D-Day” against Iran on Monday, seeking to further isolate the regime from the rest of the world.