By Nicole Hvidsten, The Minnesota Star Tribune Fellow cookbook fans know that this time of year can’t be beat as publishers release a tsunami of books hoping to land a spot on kitchen bookshelves and holiday gift lists. While we’ve been immersed in books on fresh pasta, soups, appetizers and sauces and learning about culinary…
When OpenAI opened its first Asian office in Tokyo in April 2024, the company highlighted Japan’s strengths: a deep engineering talent pool, a corporate sector known for precision, and a government eager to advance A.I. Last month, Anthropic followed suit, launching its own Tokyo office. The company, best known for its Claude models, also signed…
By Linda Gassenheimer, Tribune News Service Here’s a warm and comforting vegetable stew made easy with the help of your freezer. Keep the ingredients on hand, and you’ll have a hearty meal ready in minutes with almost no effort. Use the vegetables called for in the recipe or substitute any others you have on hand…
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of A.I. models, has moved with remarkable speed since its founding in 2021. In recent months, its high-velocity growth has been accompanied by a wave of high-profile hires, including Rahul Patil as chief technology officer (joining from Stripe) and Vitaly Gudanets as chief information security officer (joining from…
If you’ve ever tried to buy or sell a home, you know how strange it feels to make one of the biggest financial decisions of your life while being half in the dark. You can see listings, maybe a few comps and a rough estimate of value. But the full picture, the verified data that…
For years, crypto has resembled a casino, with flashy trends, wild price spikes and meme coins stealing the spotlight. But beneath the noise, something very different is taking shape in the middle of this so-called bear market. The next major leap in digital assets is unlikely to be fueled by the latest meme coin or…
Sam Altman and Jony Ive have stayed painstakingly cryptic about what their collaborative A.I. hardware device will ultimately look like. So far, the OpenAI CEO and former Apple designer have shared only that the product will be less clunky than a laptop and less screen-focused than a smartphone. Their latest hint, meanwhile, speaks to the…
Enabled Intelligence, an A.I. data labelling startup, might need to add a few new cubicles—the Falls Church, Va.-based company is quadrupling its workforce after securing a major contract to provide data labelling services to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the broader intelligence community. The five-year-old company credits its rise to an emphasis on…
The technology industry, once a landing pad for fresh computer science graduates, is rapidly automating away its early-career talent pipeline. A.I. coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer now handle much of the entry-level work junior engineers once did, making it increasingly difficult for young professionals to break in. The impact isn’t limited to…
By STACEY MEI YAN FONG Every time I am feeling a little too much, or sometimes not enough, I bake a pie. I bake a pie when I celebrate something, make a new friend, figure out something hard, go on an inspiring trip, and, most of all, when I am trying to create a feeling…
