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Google's Parent Company Squeezes Its Moonshot Projects, 'Other Bets'

Google's Parent Company Squeezes Its Moonshot Projects, 'Other Bets'

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is cutting back its commitment to ambitious moonshot projects. Compan…

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Teenagers Are Buying Into the Tradwife Fantasy, Literally and Figuratively

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By Margaux MacColl Verified
| Vanity Fair Verified
A cohort of young, married influencers have gone viral presenting their domestic life—cooking, cleaning, fighting anyone who warns them to stash money away from their husband—as a balm to generational ennui. It's working. “Let's take things back to the 1950s, baby, when it was cool to obey and honor your husband,” Ahavat Ava cooed in a recent TikTok video . She was preparing banana pancakes for her husband, her Van Cleef Alhambra bracelet sliding on her wrist as she mixed the batter.
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How TikTok Tried (and Initially Failed) to Block Perez Hilton's Livestream: A Timeline of a Crisis Broadcast In Real Time

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By Margaux MacColl Verified
| Vanity Fair Verified
This week's incident is the latest example of a graphic crisis streamed on social media. Are platforms learning to better moderate in real time? A TikTok representative walks VF through the distressing chain of events For around 15 minutes on Tuesday night, blogger Perez Hilton livestreamed on TikTok with a bloody torso and a knife in hand. He seemed to be harming himself. TikTok's AI moderation flagged the stream within minutes, sending it to a human moderator.
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This CEO Spent the Equivalent of $4 Million on an AI Agent to Run His Life

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By Margaux MacColl Verified
| Vanity Fair Verified
Who can harness (and pay for) that kind of computing power? Someone like Bill Nguyen, serial entrepreneur, who's let Olive take over everything he does. Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen grinned as he told me about how his AI agent, Olive, runs his life. Olive answers many of the 55-year-old's texts and emails, books him spontaneous travel (three trips to London so far this year), buys him groceries, and places meetings on his calendar—often without ever consulting him.
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