Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said on Wednesday that his artificial intelligence company had planned for growing about 10 times as big this year, only to reach a growth rate that could make it 80 times as big this year instead. Mr. Amodei, 43, made his remarks at Anthropic’s annual developer conference in…
But if the super El Niño will offer a kind of brief preview of future warming, it will also offer a test of how well prepared and adapted the world is to that future. If droughts intensify across parts of Africa, how much worse will the world’s hunger crisis — already twice as bad as…
Gold pure gold bar models captured in Shanghai, China on March 15, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Gold and oil have been two of the hottest trades of the last 12 months, but one could be causing the other to falter now. What’s good for energy stocks may be bad for precious…
Last year Ford Motor suspended production of an electric pickup truck, shut down a battery factory in Kentucky and booked a $20 billion loss to account for its diminished plans. Then, last month, the senior executive who oversaw development of this new technology left the company. But Ford executives insist that those setbacks do not…
Since the election of Pope Leo XIV last May, there has been widespread curiosity about how the new pope’s spirituality and leadership align with that of the late Pope Francis. A common thread between the two popes is how each has used their devotion to the Virgin Mary as a guiding light in their personal…
Weeks after most of Colorado’s ski resorts shut down for the spring, a late-season snowstorm is expected to drop more than two feet of snow across the Rocky Mountains this week. Snow this time of year is not unusual for the region, but it is unusual for this year, after a prolonged snow drought and…
Ben SolakMay 1, 2026, 06:20 AM ET CloseBen Solak joined ESPN in 2024 as a national NFL analyst. He previously covered the NFL at The Ringer, Bleeding Green Nation and The Draft Network. Multiple Authors In nine months, some cheerful young player who was drafted in 2026 will be standing on the stage at the…
But few of his crypto actions have attracted as much attention or scrutiny as his memecoin. Unveiled three nights before the presidential inauguration in January 2025, $TRUMP emerged from a partnership between Mr. Trump and a longtime associate, the serial entrepreneur Bill Zanker. When the coins went on sale, the Trump family and its business…
Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS on March 7, in a small town called Mpongwe in the copper belt of northern Zambia. He was a 37-year-old security guard, admitted to the mission hospital two days earlier. After his body was wheeled out of the men’s ward, a nurse set aside his chest X-ray, a clouded smear…
Two-up is a coin toss betting game, with two people betting against each other on whether they will land on heads or tails. Classified as unregulated gambling, the game is illegal in most parts of Australia. But on 25 April people rush to the pub to play, when it’s permitted across the country for a…
