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Marketing firms are using artificial intelligence to help analyze influencers and predict whether they will opine about the election. (Andrea Chronopoulos/The New York Times)

Brands love influencers (until politics get involved)

August 24, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Brands love when social media stars take to Instagram or TikTok to advertise their soap, probiotic sodas, makeup and more. But many of those same brands are eager to avoid...

FILE - A data center in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 23, 2024. A.I. is having a profound impact on energy demand around the world. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

AI鈥檚 insatiable energy use drives electricity demands

August 24, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

In short, Bill Gates said, the stunning rise of AI will not stand in the way of combating climate change. 鈥淚t抖阴ap not like, 鈥極h, no, we can鈥檛 do it because...

Easy buttermilk peach cobbler. This easy cobbler carries all the flavor of a more intensive version, with much less work and cleanup. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (David Malosh, The New York Times)

Peach cobbler, 2 ways: Spectacularly simple and simply spectacular

August 18, 2024 at 6:36 p.m.

Generally filled with bubbling fruit nestled into a buttery, sugary foundation, cobblers are beloved in the canon of homey desserts.

Genet Agonafer, chef and owner of Meals by Genet, prepares a dish at her restaurant in Los Angeles, Aug. 6, 2024. When Agonafer lived in Addis Ababa, she relied on “injera gagari,” injera-making experts who would prepare stacks of the flatbread in advance. (Jessica Pons/The New York Times)

Injera is the soul of Ethiopian cuisine

August 17, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.

Assertively sour, injera is a spongy, round flatbread that serves as a nutrient-rich staple of the Ethiopian diet, as well as a serving plate and utensil.

FILE - Daniel De Freitas, left, and Noam Shazeer, co-founders of Character.ai, at their offices in Palo Alto, Calif., on Jan. 6, 2022. After leaving Google to build their AI startup, the pair recently announced they had struck a deal to rejoin Google's A.I. research arm, along with roughly 20 percent of Character.AI's employees. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)

The new AI deal: Buy everything but the company

August 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Microsoft are under a magnifying glass from agencies like the Federal Trade Commission over whether they are squashing competition, including by buying startups.

An instructor works with young students in one of Lee Sedol's Go academies in Hanam, South Korea, on May 27, 2024. While Lee retired three years after his loss, he didn't abandon the world of Go. (Jean Chung/The New York Times)

Defeated by artificial intelligence, a legend in the board game go warns: Get ready for what抖阴ap next

August 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

AlphaGo had solved one of computer science鈥檚 greatest challenges: teaching itself the abstract strategy needed to win at Go,

In undated images from Apple and Google, from left, the iOS Sleep Schedule screen, Android's Do Not Disturb controls, the sleep settings in the iOS Health app and a morning alarm on an Android phone. These features can let you wind down for bed, mute notifications and stay on a regular sleep schedule. (Apple;Google via The New York Times)

Don鈥檛 let your smartphone keep you up at night

August 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

While not meant to replace medical guidance, current smartphones come with tools intended to gently ease you into slumberland by putting you in the right frame of mind.

Yakitori-style salmon with scallions and zucchini. Glazing skewers of salmon and zucchini as they char over coals turns what were once stiff coins of zucchini into something slackened, singed, sweet and salty. Food styled by Rebecca Jurkevich. (Johnny Miller, The New York Times)

Five Weeknight Dishes: Ali Slagle鈥檚 school for zucchini skeptics

August 16, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.

"This week鈥檚 recipes highlight five ways I have learned to appreciate this abundant vegetable," Ali Slagle writes.

In the fierce lobster roll rivalry, there are only winners

August 15, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.

There are two long-standing, popular styles of lobster rolls, and they differ in two primary ways: temperature (cold versus warm) and sauce (mayonnaise versus butter).

FILE — Actress Gena Rowlands, center left, arrives on the red carpet for the 88th Academy Awards ceremony at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2016. Rowlands, the intense, elegant dramatic actress who, often in collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes, starred in a series of introspective independent films, died on Aug. 14, 2024. She was 94. (Monica Almeida/The New York Times)

Gena Rowlands, Actress Who Bought Raw Drama to Her Roles, Dies at 94

August 15, 2024 at 2:13 p.m.

Gena Rowlands, Actress Who Bought Raw Drama to Her Roles, Dies at 94

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