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The Wager That Betting Can Change the World

Sophie Caldwell

I had never before attended a business conference with a 28 percent chance of an orgy.But those were the official orgy odds when I arrived at Manifest, a self-described “gathering…

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The Big Nobel Prize Winners Were Short and Fast

Sophie Caldwell

“There’s plenty of space at the bottom.” So proclaimed the physicist Richard Feynman in 1959, heralding the new field of nanophysics, the study of the very, very small.Feynman’s dictum kept…

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Tesla’s Sales Slip as It Readies Factories for New Models

Sophie Caldwell

Sales of Tesla electric cars slipped from July through September after the company paused production at some factories to upgrade assembly lines.The company delivered 435,000 vehicles worldwide in the third…

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Tom Hanks Warns of Dental Ad Using A.I. Version of Him

Sophie Caldwell

Tom Hanks and Gayle King, a co-host of “CBS Mornings,” have separately warned their followers on social media that videos using artificial intelligence likenesses of them were being used for…

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Crypto Goes on Trial, as Sam Bankman-Fried Faces His Reckoning

Sophie Caldwell

Follow live updates on the Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial.A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a fixture on magazine covers and in the halls of Congress, a tousle-haired crypto billionaire who…

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Once a Labor Leader, Butler Angered Unions by Consulting for Uber

Sophie Caldwell

In the summer of 2019, Uber, Lyft and other companies that use contract drivers faced a crisis in California. The State Legislature was poised to pass a law that would…