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- Bowman’s NASCAR Return Comes With A Familiar Problem And Less Time To Fix It
Alex Bowman is back after another injury setback, but at Hendrick Motorsports the real challenge isn’t returning—it’s proving you still belong.
- AI Infiltration Into The Arts Has Fans Seeing Slop Everywhere
Creator Matt Kindt is launching a new certification for human artists to assert their value in the creative process.
- Inside The Business of BET: How Louis Carr Is Leading A New Chapter In Black Media
Louis Carr, the President of Black Entertainment Television sits down with Forbes senior writer Jabari Young on The Enterprise Zone at Nasdaq MarketSite.
- Mark Cuban admits he made a mistake letting go of the Mavericks: ‘I don’t regret selling. I regret who I sold to’
The former Shark Tank star opens up about his feelings regarding the Mavericks sale.
- You’re looking at the AI revolution all wrong, top economist says: 40% unemployment and a 3-day work week are the same thing
"Sixty percent of people employed and 40% unemployed is the same number of working hours as 100% employed at 60% of the hours," Alex Tabarrok says.
Technology
- First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest
Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors.
- CDC study shows COVID shot benefits; Trump official blocks release
Study found shots cut urgent care and hospitalization by about 50% in healthy adults.
- First, Tesla canceled the Model 2—now it's working on a new small EV
After the pivot to humanoid robots and AI, does Tesla want to be a car company again?
- Trump's emergency orders pushing coal power are "illegal" as well as dumb
A World War II-era policy is stopping old coal plants from closing.
- The Download: AstroTurf wars and exponential AI growth
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over. In 2001, Americans installed just over 7 million square meters of synthetic turf. By 2024, that number was 79 million square meters—enough to carpet all of Manhattan and then some. The…
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