We’re at the Dawn of the Ozempic Era — and It’s Really Weird

One in eight American adults is taking GLP-1s. What does that mean for how we relate to our food, bodies and one another?

Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools

Match Group said that it's slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost a lot of money." ...

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 2026

Google Business Profiles may be seeing a spike in suspensions. Google Ads updated its data retention policy. Google has a new experimental Web Bot Auth feature. Bing said its 1 billion monthly active ...
Time

America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis

Affordability is everywhere in our national conversation, and for good reason. Housing costs are straining young families. Childcare is taking a painful bite out of many budgets. Grocery prices still ...
The New Yorker

The Costs of Trump’s Iran-War Folly

American hubris dies hard. Listening to the hyperventilations of Pete Hegseth on Wednesday morning, as he enthused about a tenuous ceasefire with Iran that may or may not mark the end of what ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm is Disrupting the AI Memory Chip Market

Google’s TurboQuant is making waves in the AI hardware sector by addressing long-standing challenges in memory usage and processing efficiency. Developed with components like the Quantized ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
American Enterprise Institute

The Economic Costs of the Iran War

Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. Treasury $12.7 billion over the first 12 days of the war.1 If we project that daily cost ...
The Washington Post

What does it cost to die in America? Search your Zip code.

Everyone — politicians, economists and myself included — has been talking about the cost of raising kids. But an equally dire reality facing Americans that’s not drawing enough attention is the cost ...
Foreign Policy

The Economic Costs of the Iran War, by the Numbers

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Infographic: The Economic Costs of the Iran War, by the ...
The New York Times

Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion

In a Capitol Hill briefing, officials gave their most comprehensive assessment of the cost of the first six days of the war, but the number omitted several aspects of the operation. By Catie Edmondson ...