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We picture loneliness as an old person's burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most ...

The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed ...
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Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a rumoured public listing — and the answer sits inside a screenless device shaped by the more ...

Apple has allegedly filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI that could complicate the artificial intelligence company's path to a public listing.
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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jum…

The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as ...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got ...
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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships l…

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and ...
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Plant-based food sales have flatlined after years of double-digit growth, and grocery data suggests the drop-off is coming from vegans themselves, not skeptics

US plant-based food sales fell 2% in 2024 after years of double-digit growth, and the shoppers walking away aren't skeptics — ...
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A MIT-OpenAI study of nearly 40 million chats found the heaviest ChatGPT users reported more loneliness, dependence, and less time with real people, though resea…

We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent ...
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The hardest part of a long marriage isn't always the arguments or the boredom — sometimes it's the strange grief of watching the person you married slowly become …

Long marriages ask something almost no one warns you about: the quiet grief of watching your partner slowly become someone ...
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China's AI boom isn't producing the next Jack Ma — it's producing a generation of one-person businesses running on generative agents, and Silicon Valley is misreadi…

In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a ...
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A 2024 New England Journal of Medicine study found microplastics and nanoplastics lodged in the carotid artery plaque of 58% of patients — and those patients were 4.…

A landmark New England Journal of Medicine study found microplastics lodged in the carotid plaque of 58% of patients, and ...
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Across 1,252 people in 10 studies, researchers found that even a five-minute dose of green exercise lifted mood and self-esteem

In 2010, two researchers at the University of Essex tried to answer this question. They pooled the results of 10 separate UK ...
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Agility Robotics is going public at $2.5B while Figure AI sits at $39B on less proven ground — and the gap between those two numbers is the entire humanoid robotic…

Agility Robotics is heading to the public markets at a valuation notable less for its size than for its restraint.