If fiddling with Canva or Photoshop isn’t your strong suit, AI firm Anthropic has a new tool it says can help those without a design background bring their ideas to life, or assist time-strapped designers prototype more ideas. “Even experienced designers have to ration exploration—there’s rarely time to prototype a dozen directions, so you limit…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 15-year-old cancer patient who dreamed of meeting Elon Musk left behind a handwritten list of questions for the tech billionaire before she died — and days later, he answered every one, honoring her final wish in a moment now touching millions online. Conservative commentator Glenn Beck…
America has spoken and chosen its favorite fast-food burger restaurant, and it seems that customers are choosing quality over a cost-friendly meal. A new study from YouGov reveals that a whopping 70% of Americans dine at a fast-food restaurants at least once a month, with 30% grabbing a quick bite once a week. The study…
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This month American Airlines is celebrating its 100th anniversary. To commemorate this centennial, AA is offering special dishes in premium cabins that evoke classic dishes of the 1920s. I recently had the chance to try beef Wellington on a first class and against all odds, it turned out very well. Among the preorder options for…
As the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran squeezes global oil supplies, travelers have valid reasons to worry about the cost and availability of flights as they plan their late spring and summer trips. The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that European countries could run low on jet fuel within weeks, forcing…
Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware for training and inference,” has filed to go public. The company previously filed for an initial public offering in 2024, but that was delayed due to a federal review of an investment from Abu Dhabi-based G42 and was ultimately withdrawn….
A Carnival Cruise passenger who injured herself after she consumed at least 14 tequila shots on a vacation cruise has won $300,000 in a lawsuit against the cruise company. Diana Sanders, a nurse from Vacaville, California, filed a lawsuit against Carnival stating that her inebriation was caused by “over-service of alcohol” by staff, after which…
A United Airlines flight from Chicago to New York City diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday afternoon over a “possible security issue,” authorities said, and passengers were forced to evacuate the plane using emergency slides. United Flight 2092 diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport and landed safely around 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Saturday after the…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s CTO for B2B applications, Srinivas Narayanan, has announced that he will leave the company next week after nearly three years. Based in San Francisco, Narayanan said he plans to spend time in India with his “aging parents” before deciding on his next professional move. He shared the update on the professional networking…
Bryan Vander Dussen spent years as a dairy farmer before shifting to selling farm-raised beef. In the past year, he and his wife have been making another transition: Cooking up recipes in their kitchen that turn organ fat from his animals into tallow balm that buyers are eager to slather on their skin. One tricky…
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An experimental treatment has doubled one-year survival rates for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer, a new study reports. The drug, called elraglusib, targets the protective web that pancreatic tumors build around themselves, thus helping immune molecules and chemotherapy better penetrate the tumors. The results of the trial showing elraglusib’s safety and…
Disney announced big layoffs earlier this week, reporting that roughly 1,000 employees across the company had just had their jobs eliminated. While the cuts were company-wide, reports from Forbes suggested that one of the biggest branches hit was Marvel Studios, which lost staffers across the board—but which suffered especially harsh cuts to its famed visual development…
Trump’s war with Iran is starting to hit Americans where it hurts—air travel. As the conflict approaches its eighth week, the airline industry is showing early signs of strain after the White House’s initial prediction of a four- to five-week war proved wildly optimistic. Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint for…
“Has The Era of the Mega-Layoff Arrived?” With this question, posed in the headline of an article Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal declares mass unemployment on a scale without recent precedent the deliberate policy of the capitalist ruling class. A mass unemployment queue outside a Sydney Centrelink office. “Instead of laying off people in more…
Jeff Bezos’ space company just took a giant leap forward on its path to reusable orbital rockets, even as it tracks an “off-nominal” orbit of its latest satellite launch. Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket launched into space for the third time ever Sunday morning (April 19) — but, in a first for the company,…
Richard Robinson measures time differently from most people — not in weeks or months, but in boarding passes, seat numbers and time zones. Last year, he spent more time traveling than he did at home. And since 2010, he has logged 945 flights, covering 1,585,148 miles — or about 64 times around the world. He’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Friday sounded out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the artificial intelligence company’s new Mythos model, which has attracted attention from the federal government for how it could transform national security and the economy. A White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss the meeting…
One takeover attempt is bold. Two? Rare indeed. But when news broke in mid-April that the United CEO was interested in acquiring his rival American Airlines, it was the third time this maverick air exec decided he wanted to reshape the playing field. As Fortune reported earlier, it’s far from clear such a merger would…
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Derek Sylvester with members of his family, team and mascot Molly, who was featured on the dealership’s logo. Courtesy Sylvester Chevrolet Derek Sylvester’s father built the family’s original Chevrolet dealership with his bare hands on Main Street in rural Peckville, Pennsylvania, in 1972. The store and family have been a pillar of the village, outside…
NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. Canada’s flag carrier said Friday that service from Toronto and Montreal to JFK will cease June 1 and resume Oct. 25. Service to…
A federal judge has blocked a $6.2 billion merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna until an antitrust lawsuit is resolved. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Troy L. Nunley in Sacramento, California, made the ruling late Friday afternoon, finding that eight attorneys general and DirecTV were likely to prevail in their…
Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual assets, potentially putting some folks out of work. No sooner had Claude Design been announced than the stock of design biz Figma fell about 7…
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Anthropic Labs, the Claude-maker’s AI safety and research division, on Friday launched Claude Design, a new service in research preview that promises to generate polished design systems, website prototypes, interactive websites, slide decks, one-pagers, and similar artifacts where you’d usually need to hire a designer or use a product like Canva or Figma to get…
Rimma Bondarenko/Shutterstock Each person has their own opinion about what the best fast food restaurant is, but it’s always interesting to see how that compares with everyone else in the United States. A 2026 ranking of fast food brands by YouGov, a market research company, did just that, and the outcome is revealing. Categories ranging…
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QVC Group, whose networks pioneered the concept of live TV shopping in the 1980s and built it into a mainstay of the late-20th century media business, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The voluntary filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern Texas was cited by company management as a way to help it transition…