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Last year, FIFA president Gianni Infantino hailed the upcoming World Cup as the equivalent of “104 Super Bowls,” quantifying just how big the sport known as football worldwide is—or, at least in comparison to America’s football version. With the average Super Bowl getting 125.6 million views annually, Infantino expects the World Cup to attract the equivalent viewership of three Super…

One evening in late 2024, Denis Shilov was watching a crime thriller when he had an idea for a prompt that would break through the safety filters of every leading AI model. The prompt was what researchers call a universal jailbreak, meaning it could be reused to get any model to bypass their own guardrails and produce dangerous or prohibited…

Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused her of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The 44-year-old pop star, who recently completed a stint at a rehabilitation facility, didn’t appear in Ventura County court. But her lawyer, Michael A. Goldstein, pleaded guilty on her…

I spent most of the school holidays of my childhood at my father’s office in Beirut. While other children were at the beach or the mountains, I was watching a man run his businesses through one of the longest civil wars of the 20th century. My father did not stop working when our city was being shelled. He did not…

Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI version of himself that can sit in meetings in his place. Most people will never need that. What they need is quieter: an agent that sits in the tools they already use and helps them focus and follow through on the chaos of their work day. A recent Fortune story on Fathom AI shows…

The recent tech layoffs would initially appear to indicate the great labor shift from human workers to AI may already be happening.  Meta announced last week in a memo that it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, about 8,000 employees, as well as scrap plans to hire for 6,000 open positions. It’s part of an effort to “run…

After U.S. gas prices soared to over $4 a gallon this month, Americans are cautiously exhaling a long-held breath that they’ve been holding for weeks since the Iran war began.   But Energy Secretary Chris Wright says it may be quite some time before Americans see any price reduction at the gas pump. “That could happen later this year. That might…

A lot of people talk about changing the world. But Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, gave Eva Longoria $50 million to actually do it. And two years on, she says the biggest myth still surrounding philanthropy is that you have to be rich to do it. “One of the biggest misconceptions about philanthropy is that impact is tied to wealth or…

Learning to code was once the fast-track ticket to success. It’s the self-taught skill that launched the careers of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. Even former President Barack Obama urged young people to learn to code. But according to one former Google CMO who started coding at 12, AI has just killed it. Alon Chen built a $2…

Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was credited for saying, “Change is the only constant,” and about 2,500 years later, American CEOs are heeding his wisdom. Executives are accepting tariffs as the new normal and are preparing to weather the levies even after President Donald Trump leaves office, according to a report published on Monday from consultancy PwC. In a survey of…