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Imagine finding out your friends hosted a dinner party and didn’t invite you, or that you were passed over for a job you were excited about. These moments hurt, and people often describe rejection in the language of physical pain.While rejection can be emotionally painful, it can also teach us something.I am a social psychology researcher, and research my colleagues and I have conducted shows that rejection can serve as a learning signal – shaping how people navigate relationships and decide whom to attempt to connect with in the future.What’s known about social rejectionResearchers have long recognized the emotional toll…
Trying to avoid becoming part of the “OpenAI killed my startup” meme? Anthropic’s chief product officer has some advice.In an episode of “Lenny’s” podcast published on Thursday, Mike Krieger said three key qualities can help startups defend themselves from being taken over by AI giants and stay “defensible” for at least the next one to three years.First, Krieger said startups with deep knowledge of areas like law or biotechnology can survive AI giants.For example, he said that he doesn’t see Anthropic building a solution for scientific labs. “But I want that company to exist and I want to partner with…
In President Donald Trump’s budget request, he’s proposing slashing funding for tribal colleges and universities, including eliminating support for the country’s only federally funded college for contemporary Native American arts. If the budget is approved by Congress, beginning in October, the more than $13 million in annual appropriations for the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, would be reduced to zero. It would be the first time in nearly 40 years that the congressionally chartered school would not receive federal support, said Robert Martin, the school’s president. “You can’t wipe out 63 years of our history…
Duolingo’s CEO said AI was not causing jobs to disappear at his company — but that workers will need to adapt.Following some negative responses to its recent “AI-first” strategy announcement, Luis von Ahn said some had misunderstood the intent and that Duolingo wasn’t replacing its workforce with machines.”Every tech company is doing similar things,” but “we were open about it,” he told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday. “I should have been more clear to the external world.”In April, Duolingo shared a companywide email on LinkedIn outlining its push toward more AI-driven operations.Some users accused the language-learning…
The takeaways from Carlos Alcaraz’s fifth-set tiebreaker victory over Jannik Sinner in the riveting and record-breaking French Open men’s final were multiple and significant.Let’s start with this: Anyone worried about how men’s tennis would survive in the post-Big Three era can rest easy. Alcaraz and Sinner produced 5 1/2 hours of evidence Sunday that the game is in good hands — and that their rivalry will be, and perhaps already is, a transcendent one.Take it from no less an authority than Roger Federer. The retired owner of 20 Grand Slam titles, and rival of Rafael Nadal (22 majors) and Novak…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers simply couldn’t wait to get home early Monday.There’s a slew of possible reasons for that. Maybe they just wanted to get out of Oklahoma City with their split of the first two games in the NBA Finals. Maybe they couldn’t wait to see what finals fever will look like in Indianapolis after a 25-year wait to get back to the title round. Or maybe they just wanted to get back to work.It’s probably a little of everything — especially the last part.Yes, the Pacers are tied with the Thunder 1-1 after two games of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Soccer enthusiasts in Music City once numbered so few that when a fan spotted someone with a soccer bumper sticker, they could probably recognize the car’s driver.Now? Don’t wave. Odds are it’s a stranger. Soccer has grown by leaps and bounds from the immigrants who played at a park decades ago through semi-pro to teams drawing only a couple hundred diehard fans eager to watch. That thirst for soccer helped Nashville go from an outside chance at a Major League Soccer expansion franchise to taking the pitch February 2020 before the biggest crowd to see a…
Jaire Alexander has been released by the Green Bay Packers, ending a seven-year run in which he emerged as one of the NFL’s top cornerbacks before injuries limited his availability.The Packers announced the move Monday, a day before they open their mandatory minicamp. The decision is expected to clear about $17 million in cap space.“In his seven seasons with the Packers, Jaire established himself as one of the premier players in the NFL at one of the game’s most challenging positions,” Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said in a statement. “His contributions to our organization were felt on the field,…
Tickets to space aren’t cheap — but Axiom Space is a company pricing its offerings at the decidedly high end of the industry.Its tickets, which cost roughly $70 million, are steep compared to other human spaceflight options offered by space tourism companies. For context, Blue Origin requires a $150,000 refundable deposit for a ticket to space, and auctioned off a ticket for $28 million. Virgin Galactic tickets were previously priced at $600,000, and are expected to go up.So why is Axiom’s offering priced so much higher?For starters, the destination is different. Unlike other human spaceflight missions, like Blue Origin’s New…
Boise, Idaho, pharmacist Matt Murray has no choice but to disappoint the handful of people who call him every day asking for a drug used to treat parasitic worms.He could give them the medication, called ivermectin, but only with a doctor’s note.The callers aren’t in the throes of an active intestinal worm infestation, Murray said. They simply want access to the pills without having to see a doctor first.“A lot of people are calling, asking, ‘Do you guys have it for sale? Can I buy it? How do I get it?’” said Murray, the director of operations for the independent…