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In the World's Best Place to See Wild Jaguars, Residents Are Using the Big Cat's Appeal to Reach Conservation Goals
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Brazil’s Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite overtourism concerns, one enclave may offer a model for how to protect the charismatic apex predator Source link
Read MoreSam Altman Caught in Fallout From Dario Amodei’s Pentagon Standoff
Sam Altman’s Pentagon pact tests OpenAI’s public standing as critics rally behind Anthropic. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Sure, Sam Altman managed to secure an agreement between OpenAI and the U.S. Department of War amid Anthropic’s public battles with the agency. But in doing so, he may have forfeited something more valuable: public goodwill. The…
Read MoreAs ADHD Coaching Gains Popularity, Researchers Stress the Importance of Careful Vetting
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A recent survey highlights variation in the training credentials and experience across the burgeoning industry, which is mostly unregulated and unlicensed Source link
Read MoreBlock, A.I. and the Front-Running of the Curve
The rise of the temporal agentic operating system could redefine how companies structure human labor. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images When Jack Dorsey announced last week that Block—the parent company of Square, Cash App and Afterpay—would cut its workforce by 40 percent, axing more than 4,000 jobs and reducing its headcount to less than 6,000,…
Read MoreThe Gospel of More, According to the Late Iris Apfel
No one wore a more iconic set of spectacles—those oversized black circles, thick as porthole frames, perched on a face that refused to fade into the background for 102 years. Then the wrists, stacked to the elbow with Bakelite and bone and carved wood and whatever else she had pulled from a Marrakech souk or…
Read MoreThis Is What You Missed at SCHWET’s Steamy, Under-the-Radar Debut
Guests gathered inside SCHWET’s still-unfinished Tribeca space for a tightly curated, deliciously phone-free evening. Sam Waxman You could be forgiven for missing one of last week’s hottest parties, which unfolded semi-secretly inside a three-story, still-under-construction space in Tribeca, where hard hats have not yet fully given way to hand towels. The guest list was tightly…
Read MoreRuoming Pang, Meta’s $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 Months
Sam Altman reportedly courted Pang for months. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Ruoming Pang, a prominent A.I. researcher recruited by Meta last year with a pay package reportedly worth more than $200 million, has left the company to join OpenAI, The Information reported yesterday (Feb. 25). His departure marks another setback for Mark Zuckerberg’s elite A.I. team…
Read MoreAs Jamie Dimon Signals Exit, 5 JPMorgan Execs Emerge as CEO Contenders
With Jamie Dimon preparing for retirement, JPMorgan’s next CEO will likely emerge from a tightly contested internal race. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images This year, Jamie Dimon celebrates 20 years at the helm of JPMorgan Chase. The 69-year-old CEO is prepared to pass over the reins to a successor in a “few years,” he said…
Read MoreA Travel Guide to Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, Where the West Still Feels Wild
The Bitterroot Valley of western Montana is one of the last truly wild places, unspoiled by traffic or crowds. Forget the large ski resorts of Big Sky or the ever-growing city of Bozeman, and venture southwest, where lift lines are nonexistent, and downtowns remain charmingly uncommercialized. Though Glacier and Yellowstone have their undeniable charms, you…
Read MoreHow Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos Is Championing Latin American Art Through Legacy
Galería RGR’s programming serves as a bridge between Latin American historical masters and contemporary artists. Gerardo Landa Rojano For almost a decade, Galería RGR has served as a vital bridge between Venezuela’s rich postwar artistic movements and broader Latin American creativity while situating these practices within an international discourse of shared aesthetic sensibilities. At the…
Read MoreSterling Ruby’s “Atropa” Is a Quiet But Profound Reflection on Entropy
Installation view: Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” at Sprüth Magers in New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson American artist Sterling Ruby has long engaged not only with the chaotic condition of our human present but also, more broadly, with that primordial chaos from which everything originates. His work engages with entropy, expressed both through physical and organic decay…
Read MoreDean Majd’s “Hard Feelings” Expands the Emotional Register of Masculinity
Dean Majd. Photo: Zach Hussein For much of photography’s history, male portraiture preserved a degree of emotional distance, presenting men as stoic, authoritative and restrained. Dean Majd has spent the better part of a decade pursuing a more nuanced portrayal of masculinity in photographs that capture men in moments of profound vulnerability and mutual dependence,…
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