Sarah Lin

I didn’t start writing poems because I thought I was good at it. I started because I needed somewhere to put the noise in my head. My thoughts were like birds, fluttering in every direction, and writing was the only way to calm them down. At first, I didn’t even call what I was doing poetry. I just wrote how things felt, not how they looked. Over time, I realized that’s what poems really are — feelings that find a shape. The first one I ever shared was short and a little uneven.

For its 200 million weekly active users worldwide, ChatGPT is an invention of convenience. In seconds, the tool can offload hours of menial work in coding, writing and studying, just a few of the product’s many applications. But as the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, bids to become a for-profit corporation for the first time, users are starting to seriously evaluate if they would pay to use the free platform if it becomes paywalled, or worse, riddled with advertisements.

WASHINGTON — Emotions ran high as lawmakers grilled U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr. on the agency’s security failures leading up to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. Thursday’s hearing was the final meeting for the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump before the release of their final report about the two attempted assassinations of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, and in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15.