OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has announced that CEO and co-founder Sam Altman will immediately leave his role leading the company and step down from its board of directors.
Altman was not “consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” leading to the board losing confidence in his ability to lead the company, a…
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The question swirling around Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, Mike Judge’s movie-length resurrection of his mid-1990s MTV slacker sensation Beavis and Butt-Head, is “Can Beavis and Butt-Head still be funny today, now that we have ostensibly evolved to be a more sensitive culture?” The answer is that Beavis and Butt-Head—bored, unattractive teenage …
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It’s easy to poke fun at terrible restaurants, like the one on Gordon Ramsay’s show Kitchen Nightmares that served a mayonnaise-and-cheese sushi pizza, or the Washington D.C. Popeyes that went viral after a video revealed the franchise was overrun with gargantuan rats. (They were not of the Pixar variety that hide in chef hats and improve recipes, unfortunately). Both eater…
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Bloomberg — Tesla Inc. delivered 308,600 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter, smashing the previous record for the electric-car maker and setting a capstone on a year in which the company joined the exclusive $1 trillion market valuation club.
The better-than-expected results posted Sunday pushed Tesla’s total sales for the year to more than 936,000, up about 87% over 202…
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first six episodes of The White Lotus Season 2.
The White Lotus wraps up its second season on Sunday, and you know what that means: It’s time for somebody to die. Multiple somebodies, actually. As resort manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) learns from her unwitting romantic rival, Rocco (Federico Fe…
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The short-lived romance between Princess Diana and film producer Dodi Fayed drives the first half of The Crown’s sixth and final season, with four episodes of the historical drama arriving on Netflix on Nov. 16.
The couple’s relationship only lasted a short while during the summer of 1997 before they both died in a car crash while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris. But a n…
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China’s millions of Communist Party cadres were warned to stay away from investing in private equity to avoid ownership situations that can breed corruption.
Such investing creates doubts about the integrity of officials and opens the door to the abuse of power for personal gains, an official publisher of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a recent article.&nb…
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Covid-19 flare-ups, diminished policy support, and lingering supply-chain bottlenecks will see the global economic recovery cool more than previously estimated in 2022, after last year’s expansion clocked the fastest post-recession pace in eight decades, the World Bank said.
Global gross domestic product will probably increase 4.1% this year, less than a 4.3% forecast in June, the W…
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During his visit to the U.S. this week, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden multiple gifts on Wednesday. But the most interesting among them was a papier mache box containing a 7.5 carat synthetic green diamond.
The lab-grown diamond (LGD) is at the heart of India’s bid to become a global leader in producing the synthet…
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House of Hammer is a dizzying new docuseries that tells the story of actor Armie Hammer and his wealthy family’s sprawling and sordid history. The Discovery+ series arrives more than year after multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the actor. The women accused him of physical violence, sharing fantasies of cannibalism, and psychological manipulat…
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