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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Julia Starr, the founder of Julia Starr Coaching. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve been a career coach for nearly a decade, and for most of that time, my business has been capped by one factor: me. As a solopreneur, my calendar only has so much space, and I’ve never been interested in growing a team.About a year and a half ago, I started experimenting with how AI could help me expand my impact. I built prompts that clients could use to dig deeper between…
Teacher Angela Hall always starts the day gathering her preschool students in a circle in their Shreveport, Louisiana, classroom. The kids giggle. They share. And they look for who’s missing.“Braylon, he’s not here,” she recalled one of her students saying Monday.Braylon Snow, who just turned 5, was one of seven siblings who were fatally shot Sunday by their father in an attack that also killed their cousin. The shooting rattled classrooms in Shreveport where teachers like Hall on Monday came face-to-face with distraught parents and a messy stew of emotions.In Hall’s classroom at Johnnie L. Cochran Head Start, it’s likely…
Sometimes, things are not just one thing — they’re also another thing. This sentence construction (“It’s not just this — it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that now, it’s no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it’s almost a guarantee. That’s why, I was not just intrigued when I saw a Barron’s report about how this sentence construction has dramatically increased in corporate communications — I was deeply amused. The report didn’t just remark on the prevalence of this phrasing in corporate communications — it scanned the market intelligence firm…
I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about how the internet works. Loading audio narration… I can usually tell if a piece of content is “organic” or advertising. And yet, there’s always the unknown unknowns: You might think you can always tell if someone has a bad toupee, but what about all the good ones that you didn’t notice?Yet, I feel more and more that we are living in a time of undetectable toupees on the internet. And even I have to admit that I am an easy mark these days.Take the recent kerfluffle over a WIRED article about how a marketing agency…
The National Security Agency is said to be using Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s recently announced model that it withheld from public release, Axios reports. The news comes weeks after the NSA’s parent agency, the Department of Defense, labeled Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” after the company refused to allow Pentagon officials unrestricted access to its model’s full capabilities. Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this month as a frontier model designed for cybersecurity tasks, but claimed the model was too capable of offensive cyberattacks to be released publicly. As a result, the AI firm limited access to Mythos to around 40 organizations, of…
In 2024, Wyoming became one of 15 states to opt out of a new federal program to supplement the meals of needy children during the summer months. In 2025, the Legislature opted out again when it killed a bill to sign up the state for the SUN Bucks program. And in March, lawmakers once again declined — this time quashing the governor’s $1.8 million budget request to administer it. Citing a “vital” need for healthy meals all year round, Gov. Mark Gordon on Wednesday announced one-time funding secured to implement SUN Bucks in Wyoming this summer. “While the Legislature was…
Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer and CFO Miles Everson have suddenly departed the AI nuclear power firm, sending shares down 22% on Monday. The company said Neugebauer has stepped down as chairman, although he still remains on the board. Lead Independent Board Director Marius Haas has stepped into the role of chairman, the company said Monday. Everson has been elected as a board director as a result of the exercise of director designation rights held by the Melissa A. Neugebauer 2020 Trust. Fermi, which was co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is developing an AI campus in…
Meta’s CTO doesn’t feel the heat very often. Loading audio narration… Andrew Bosworth helps oversee Meta, a company that consistently sets high standards and cuts low performers. The division he oversees — Reality Labs — has also had significant product rollbacks and layoffs.As one of Mark Zuckerberg’s key lieutenants, it’s anything but a chill job, and Bosworth was recently asked “How do you deal with work stress?” in a Wednesday ask-me-anything he hosted on his Instagram.”I don’t feel stressed out that often,” he responded. “It happens to me four or five times a year.”Bosworth narrowed down his stress to one feeling:…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is once again the talk of Silicon Valley. Loading audio narration… Over the weekend, Palantir released a 22-point summary of Karp’s 320-page book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” that the billionaire tech CEO co-wrote with the defense technology company’s head of corporate affairs, Nicholas W. Zamiska.”Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief,” the company wrote on X.The ideas reflect Karp’s long-held worldviews, including the view that the tech industry has been insufficiently supportive of US national security. Karp, who holds a Ph.D. in neoclassical…
A talent CEO says all the recently laid-off tech workers wading through corporate America’s sluggish job market should look to one growing area: data centers. Loading audio narration… Carrie Charles is the CEO and cofounder of Broadstaff, a staffing and recruiting firm that works with companies like Oracle and Verizon. She says that with Big Tech’s AI infrastructure buildout underway across the country, Broadstaff’s business is booming.Aside from all the construction workers needed to build data centers, Charles says she constantly fields staffing inquiries for skilled electricians and technicians to install and maintain the physical hardware inside the facilities.”Our phone…