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ServiceNow Lays Off Hundreds, Citing 'AI Efficiencies' From the Automation Tools It Sells

ServiceNow is cutting several hundred jobs and pointing to "real AI efficiencies" generated by its own AI agents, the same ones it sells to automate…

Grok 4.6 targets Aug 7 at 1.5T, Grok 4.7 follows at 2.1T

Musk's Jul 28 X post puts Grok 4.6 around Aug 7 at 1.5 trillion parameters with upgraded SFT and RL, then Grok 4.7 at 2.1T weeks later with no…

Wangari Maathai Was Too Hard to Control for a Husband, and Won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Same Stubbornness

She was beaten unconscious in a Nairobi park, divorced for being too educated, and called subversive by a president. She planted more than thirty…

Penn Central Merged Two Rivals Into the 6th-Largest US Company. 871 Days Later, the Largest Bankruptcy America Had Ever Seen.

Two rival railroads merged to save themselves, kept incompatible computer systems and executives who despised each other, and papered over a…

Jodie Foster's 82%-fresh 'A Private Life' hits Netflix today

A Certified-Fresh French Hitchcockian mystery leads a six-title Wednesday that also brings a Brazilian MMA crime series, a three-part Idaho murders…

Birthdays Today: July 29

Sixty-two living people we could verify share today's birthday, from two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso, turning 45, and Rush…

Birthdays Today · 7h ago
Capital One Mobile held #1 a second day as Atom Tickets rode The Odyssey into the top 5

The 15-year-old banking app's two-day reign comes with still no outage, product launch, or breach disclosure to explain it, as Atom Tickets hit 5 on…

American Airlines' IT outage grounded every flight for 45 minutes last night, and it still has the most cancellations today

The 9 AM Wednesday update: American's nationwide IT ground stop hit at 6:29 PM ET Tuesday on top of the Northeast storm wall, lasting about 45…

Dream at the Wings Tonight on USA Network as Reese Returns From Her Knee Injury

Two games on USA Network tonight: Angel Reese is expected back from her July 19 left-knee injury for a sold-out Wings-Dream showdown Paige Bueckers…

WNBA Tonight · 4h ago
PS Plus August 2026 free games revealed: Dying Light 2, Big Walk, Signalis

Sony revealed August's PS Plus Essential trio a day early (Dying Light 2 Reloaded, the day-one co-op title Big Walk, and the acclaimed horror…

Lomo Saltado Lives on a 90-Second Wok Sear and Aji Amarillo, Not a Pile of Fries. A 52-Gram-Protein Peruvian Stir-Fry for Tonight.

A 30-minute Peruvian plate that takes the stir-fry Lima's Cantonese coolies built in the chifa cookshops of the 1850s and rebuilds it lean: strips of…

Cyclospora tops 18,000 US cases as Michigan signals the outbreak may have peaked

CDC surveillance jumped to 6,707 confirmed and more than 11,500 suspected in a week, even as Michigan says ER visits are slowing and a coalition…

Recalls Today · 6h ago
Valkyries Restart in Phoenix Tonight, Three Games Out, With Gabby Williams Questionable

Minnesota won its eighth straight and brought Napheesa Collier home last night, stretching the lead to three games while Golden State sat idle.…

The Kaiser and Tsar Exchanged 'Willy' and 'Nicky' Telegrams Trying to Stop World War I

On July 29, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II, cousins who had signed their personal letters "Willy" and "Nicky" for twenty years, began a…

iOS 26.6 Shipped With 87 Security Fixes, Including Kernel and Root Bugs

Apple's final iOS 26 point release landed Monday with a far bigger security payload than its one-line release notes hinted: 78 fixes covering 87…

Anju, Mission: A Japanese-Korean Spot From the Chef Behind Ganji and Nara

One SF/Bay Area opening a day, chosen and checked. Today: the Mission's turn, as the chef who cooked for the Korean army before moving here in 2001…

PG&E's Climate Credit Moves to Summer: $72 Off Your August and September Bills

A flat $36.18 lands on each residential electric account in August and again in September ($72.36 total) after the CPUC's April 30 decision shifted…

Kalshi traded $111 billion in six months. Its regulator has one commissioner.

A House hearing exposed a one-commissioner CFTC stretched across a booming prediction-market business, the same surveillance that would have to catch…

Survivor Weekly · 2d ago
NBA top 100: LeBron James to 76ers on minimum deal, list moves at No. 37

LeBron James ends a three-week wait by signing a two-year, $8 million minimum with Philadelphia. The list moves at No. 37, with no rank change…

NBA Top 100 · 4d ago

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