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For hundreds of employees at Paramount Skydance, led by CEO David Ellison, taking a voluntary buyout package evidently was preferrable to coming back to the office full-time. The company, formed by Skydance Media’s takeover of Paramount Global, told employees in early September that all staffers would be expected to work in the office five days a week starting Jan. 5, 2026. Those who didn’t want to comply with that would be able to seek a buyout starting Sept. 15. In Phase 1 of the RTO program, employees in Paramount Skydance’s L.A. and New York offices (at the VP level and…

Atletico Madrid’s Marcos Llorente celebrates scoring his side’s third goal during a Champions League opening phase soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Union Saint-Gilloise in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Manu Fernande/AP hide caption toggle caption Manu Fernande/AP MADRID — Atletico Madrid is about to come under American ownership. Apollo Sports Capital, an asset management company, will become the Spanish club’s majority shareholder early next year, Atletico announced on Monday. No financial details were disclosed. Chief executive Miguel Ángel Gil and president Enrique Cerezo will stay in their positions to ensure “continuity of vision and leadership,” the two parties…

Tech companies have invested so much money in building data centers in recent months, it’s actively driving the US economy—and the AI race is showing no signs of slowing down. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump last week that the company would spend $600 billion on US infrastructure—including data centers—by 2028, while OpenAI has committed already to spending $1.4 trillion.An extensive new analysis looks at the environmental footprint of data centers in the US to get a handle on what, exactly, the country might be facing as this buildout continues over the next few years—and where the US…

Meanwhile, the passenger calmly sips his tea.Sharing a flight with a crying baby can make passengers cranky. However, a flier recently gave a lesson in patience when he posted a video of being kicked by a child next to him. Instead of reacting or complaining, he calmly sipped from his cup. The video has left social media users baffled as they struggle to understand why the mom didn’t intervene.Bangkok-based travel influencer Paul Lee posted a short video on Instagram last week documenting his experience flying with a little girl next to him, crying and kicking him. The digital nomad patiently…

The American Alliance of Museums put out its annual industry snapshot and it’s not great. Trump’s targeting of museum programming had downstream effects and put a “chill on corporate philanthropy.”(Image credit: Win McNamee)

BRENTFORD, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 09: Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, applauds the fans following the team’s defeat in the Premier League match between Brentford and Newcastle United at Gtech Community Stadium on November 09, 2025 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)Getty ImagesNewcastle United head coach Eddie Howe said something extremely relevant last week, as pressure mounts over the team’s Premier League away form, which suddenly looks to be a bigger problem than many had realised.Ahead of the 2-0 win over Athletic Club in the Champions League last week, Howe was discussing consistency and said this:“The competitions we…

AI chatbots “pose serious risks to individuals vulnerable to eating disorders,” researchers warned on Monday. They report that tools from companies like Google and OpenAI are doling out dieting advice, tips on how to hide disorders, and AI-generated “thinspiration.”The researchers, from Stanford and the Center for Democracy & Technology, identified numerous ways publicly available AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Mistral’s Le Chat can affect people vulnerable to eating disorders, many of them consequences of features deliberately baked in to drive engagement.In the most extreme cases, chatbots can be active participants helping hide or sustain eating…

new video loaded: ‘Flesh’ by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker PrizetranscriptBacktranscript‘Flesh’ by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker PrizeDavid Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel “Flesh.”“I think fiction can take risks. I think it’s one of the things that it can do. It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks, which many other forms, narrative forms, can’t quite do to the same extent.” “I think all six of the books in the short list really, you know, not — it’s not saying this is the headline theme, but there…

Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants. By Carl Zimmer Illustrations by Álvaro Bernis Nov. 10, 2025 For centuries, engineers have turned to nature for inspiration. Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of gliding machines that would mimic birds. Today, the close study of animals and plants is leading to inventions such as soft batteries and water-walking robots.Cassandra Donatelli, a biologist at the University of Washington, Tacoma and an author of a recent review of the burgeoning field of “bioinspiration,” credits the trend to sophisticated new tools as well as a new…

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz highlights the starting points or destinations of five novels about road trips. (Even if you aren’t familiar with the book, most questions offer an additional hint about the location.) To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct answer will be revealed. At the end of the quiz, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do further reading.