Oura has been gearing up to go public all month. Now, it seems those plans have been put on the back burner. 

I’m sure Christopher Nolan didn’t have marketing metaphors on his mind when he directed The Odyssey, but after I watched Odysseus face the wrath of Poseidon in Nolan’s three-hour epic, I thought the movie summed up neatly the trauma that marketers endure when they try to navigate the world of AI assistants. AI apps play by their own rules, and they’re constantly changing the map to upend the journey. If you’re allowing yourself to be led around by the nose, you’re in for a bumpy ride.

Blood pressure medication is one of the most common types of medicines in use in the United States.

Attackers are early adopters of AI. Just as businesses are deploying AI to automate workflows and improve decision-making, criminals are aggressively deploying the technology to identify vulnerabilities and exploit them in minutes. Most security teams aren’t built for that speed.

When my father was a child in upstate New York, he contracted polio. So did three of his younger siblings. It was devastating to the family. It was also, in a way none of them could have anticipated, a door that opened onto something extraordinary.

Many employees know the power of caffeinated coffee (or as the late Dolly Parton so poetically called it, “a cup of ambition”) to get them through a long workday.

The Chinese robot manufacturer AgiBot just released more than 300 autonomous robots into a theme park to let them mingle freely with the public. It’s the largest deployment of this kind ever. In fact, this embodied AI invasion dwarfs any other public deployment of robots in China. Nothing in the West gets close to it.

This weekend much of the Eastern Seaboard got hit with an unusual September nor’easter, bringing torrential rains, damaging winds, and coastal flooding from northern Maine all the way down to North Carolina. Here in New England, the heavy rains continued on Monday.

A lot has changed at Turion Space since it was founded in 2020. Originally focused on space debris removal, the Irvine, California-based company has since transformed into a space infrastructure company, building the vehicles, software, and payloads that help spacecraft move, maneuver, collect data, and carry out missions in orbit.

That evolution has also changed the scale of the opportunities it is pursuing. Turion has moved from proving its technology to competing for major government programs and taking on increasingly complex missions, alongside both established aerospace and defense contractors and newer space companies.  

I remember stepping into the mall as an 11-year-old with a sequined purse stuffed with pocket money. I’d pop into Claire’s to buy some watermelon Lip Smackers, then hit up Limited Too for baby Ts. Back home, there would be a Delia’s catalog waiting for me with ideas of how to style cargo pants. Or the latest issue of YM or Bop, full of quizzes to figure out which Spice Girl I was. (For the record, I was Posh.)

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology.

In the parlance of tech companies, I’m a “heavy user” of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. 

Not too long ago, I listened to tech investor Jason Calacanis on a podcast. He confidently made a number of strange assertions, including that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could easily be resolved with some land swaps and that the U.S. government had no business regulating mergers and acquisitions because it can’t predict the future. 

In today’s work landscape, job-hopping has evolved from professional taboo to professional tactic. You could be looking for faster growth or better pay elsewhere, taking “stepping stone” jobs along the way to that goal. Perhaps these roles lay the path to a dream gig, or help you bide time during a personal transition or an industry shift.

Recent news stories have suggested that younger workers are opting out of work ambition. Coverage documents their frustration with a limiting job market, dehumanizing hiring processes, and the expectations set by hustle culture. 

A lawsuit involving Cornell University and seven members of the Chi Pi fraternity has brought to light details of an alleged hours-long sexual assault in 2024, leading to public outcry on social media.

Forget donating your body to science or medicine: Thanks to a new trend in the cosmetic surgery industry, fat from donated cadavers is being used as filler for breasts, buttocks, and more.

Want to have some fun this fall? It’ll cost you.

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Dario Amodei is having a moment.