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• My grandma got her first iPhone after a brief health scare and became hooked on YouTube videos.
• She slipped farther away from the family store, old friends, and the dinner table.
• Seeing her blush at silly romance videos made me realize that she wasn't wasting time.

On the day my Taiwanese grandma A-Ma turned 80, she complained about a li

The feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI is getting even more contentious as the two sides get ready for trial later this month. The latest development in the legal back-and-forth saw OpenAI accuse Elon Musk and his latest proposals as a "legal ambush," as first reported by Bloomberg. OpenAI filed its response on Friday, which detailed that Musk was "sandbagging the defendants and injecting chaos

• Jim Lexa worked as a journalist for 30 years and saw his salary plummet as print journalism faded.
• He quit without another job at 53, worked as a handyman, then got a job with the Postal Service.
• He now earns up to $85K a year — nearly three times his old salary — and can

In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool’s example applications. The add-in, available to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, completes Anthropic’s integration across the full Microsoft Office suite and arrives […]

• Entrepreneur Nik Halik bought a defunct nuclear missile silo in Colorado for over $10 million.
• The US government once used the facility to power, house, and potentially fire nuclear missiles.
• Halik plans to turn the 200,000-square-foot facility into a data center to power AI.

A decommissioned nuclear silo near Denver

As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are joining survival camps like Fortitude Ranch that are built to survive catastrophes, or even World War III.

Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeholder flags a suspicious number does anyone ask whether the underlying data is actually correct. By that point, the cost of fixing it has multiplied several times over. This is not a […]

• I'm usually the friend who initiates plans, but I decided to take a short break for my well-being.
• Hitting pause on reaching out to friends and making plans helped me understand my priorities.
• Now that I've started initiating again, I'm trying to focus my energy on friends who reciprocate.

Ever since I was little, I've made it my mission to find friends and build the community I

• I started letting my son bike around our neighborhood with his friends when he was 8.
• He and my daughter now bike up to a half mile away, as long as they're in a group.
• Letting them bike around has taught them responsibility and independence.

The first time my son asked if he could bike in the neighborhood with his friends

• Natalie Alatriste said Florida stopped feeling like home after the pandemic.
• She said the state's higher living costs and traffic congestion drove her to leave.
• Alatriste is now living in Virginia, where she's spending less money and is happier overall.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Natalie Alatriste, a 35-year-old native