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World
Model-Off-Duty Style Evolves
A statement that might surprise no one: Many models who make a living by wearing clothes also have great personal style. But the “off duty” wardrobe lots of them have been known for — which was often some combination of white T-shirt and jeans — has ...
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News
Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale and a dinosaur. An engineer gave the robot an instruction: “Pick up the extinct animal.” The robot whirred for a moment, then its arm extended and ...
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News
Ford Slashes Price of Electric F-150 as Demand Weakens
Sales of electric vehicles have slowed recently partly because prices of some models like the F-150 Lightning had risen a lot.
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US
Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism
It’s a few weeks before the release of Claude, a new A.I. chatbot from the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, and the nervous energy inside the company’s San Francisco headquarters could power a rocket. At long cafeteria tables dotted with ...
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Newyork
The ‘Representative Agent’ Is Always Rational. The Rest of Us Are Not.
Economists have an imaginary person they call a “representative agent,” who is about as realistic as the Easter bunny or the Abominable Snowman. The representative agent is supposed to stand in for all of us in a model of how the economy works: 335 ...
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World
Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool
After documenting his experience in Japanese American internment camps, Sakoda helped bring the study of human behavior to the computer age
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News
U.S. Car Brands Will Benefit Most From Electric Car Tax Breaks
Rules that take effect on Tuesday will limit the $7,500 credits to electric cars made domestically with minerals from the U.S. or trade allies.
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Newyork
12 Fashion Week Moments That Kept Us Talking
Including frog clogs, denim scraps, robot dogs and scented dresses.
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Newyork
The Mean Life of a ‘Midsize’ Model
In Paris last month, at the Chanel couture show, there was something about one model that set her apart from the others on the runway. Strikingly beautiful, Jill Kortleve has almond-shaped eyes, dark bushy eyebrows and chiseled cheekbones. Since her ...
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News
Ford Follows Tesla in Cutting Electric Vehicle Prices
The automaker reduced the price of the Mustang Mach-E by up to $5,900 after Tesla slashed prices of its cars by as much as 20 percent.