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OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator — its AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users — for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland. Operator, which launched in January in the U.S., is one of several “AI agent” tools on the market that can be instructed to do things like book tickets, make restaurant reservations, file expense reports, or shop on…

Rosemary Woodruff Leary was once a one-named media heroine married to one of the most infamous men of all time, the ex-Harvard psychologist and high priest of LSD, Timothy Leary. Now she’s a footnote — barely acknowledged if mentioned at all in the history of the counterculture and psychedelic renaissance of the 1960s. But my...

AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But AI coding has also resulted in something else: a vast increase in lines of code, and thus the likelihood of bugs resulting in crashes or other mishaps. On Monday, an Israeli startup called Lightrun, which has built an observability platform to identify and debug (remediate) code before those problems arise, announced a Series B of $70 million. The funding underscores not just the gap in the market for tools like these, but also Lightrun’s traction in meeting that demand.  New backer…

In the whirlwind world of NFTs—where pixelated avatars and algorithmic art turned into million-dollar headlines—few stories embody the industry’s explosive rise and sobering fall quite like RTFKT (pronounced “artifact”).Born from the electric blend of sneaker culture, gaming aesthetics, and blockchain innovation, RTFKT’s journey from garage startup to Nike-backed digital fashion icon—and ultimately to its quiet shutdown—paints a portrait of both the promise and peril of Web3.The Rise: Disruption in a BoxRTFKT emerged in 2020, during the first real wave of NFT mania. Founded by Benoit Pagotto, Chris Le, and Steven Vasilev, the company didn’t just hop on the NFT bandwagon—it…

CNN  —  Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week. The 27-year-old man was first rescued on Tuesday after falling ill, Shizuoka prefectural police told CNN on Monday. He had to be rescued again on Saturday after returning to the mountain to retrieve his belongings, including a cell phone, that he had left behind, they said. On Tuesday, the climber — a Chinese college student currently living in Japan — reached the summit, which sits at 3,776 meters (12,388 feet), before experiencing altitude sickness. On Saturday, he…

LONDON: Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa shattered the women’s-only world record in winning the 45th London Marathon on Sunday, while Kenyan Sebastian Sawe made a brilliant tactical decision to demolish a stacked men’s field en route to victory. The 28-year-old Assefa, silver medallist in the event at last year’s Paris Olympics, pulled away from Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya over the final couple of kilometres after the two had set a blistering early pace. She crossed the finish line in two hours, 15 minutes and 50 seconds, beating the previous women’s-only record of 2:16:16 set last year in London by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir,…

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWarner Bros. Discovery is taking a page out of Netflix’s playbook.In an apparent move to crack down on password sharing outside the home, the company’s streaming service Max has launched a new feature it is calling Extra Member Add-On. Similar to Netflix’s paid sharing model, the new feature allows users to add an extra person who does not live in the same household as the primary account holder to their subscription for a monthly fee.Priced at $7.99 a month, the friend or family member of the account owner gets their own stand-alone account under…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Alphabet — Shares of the megacap technology name pulled back 1.4% after a federal judge ruled that Google has illegally monopolized online advertising technology , namely the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges. Hertz — The rental car company surged 43.9% to a 52-week high, following a 56% rally in the previous session, after Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a sizable stake . A regulatory filing revealed Pershing Square had built a 4.1% position as of the end of 2024. Pershing has significantly increased the position — to 19.8%…

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“We know where we are,” Padilla told the nominee. “We know what the directive is: Get it to Schedule III,” he said, referring to a rescheduling recommendation from the Department of Health and Human Services. “Are you committed to seeing it to fruition?” the senator asked. “I don’t know. I haven’t seen it,” Cole said....