Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has spent much of the last 12 years living in the shadow of frenzied speculation over her infamously fractured relationship with her famous Scientologist father – and as she takes her first steps into adulthood, it seems she is finally ready to answer the question of her future with the Top Gun star once and for all.
Today, the teenager will mark her milestone 18th birthday without her dad Tom, 61, who has
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To truly understand the events of the past 48 hours—the shocking, sudden ousting of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, arguably the figurehead of the generative-AI revolution, followed by reports that the company is now in talks to bring him back—one must understand that OpenAI is not a technology company. At least, not like other epochal companies of the internet age, such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft.
OpenAI was deliberately structured to resist
In his seminal study of Los Angeles in the boom and bust years from 1920 to 1940, Carey McWilliams memorably called Southern California “an island on the land.” Mostly he was talking about the weather. An area of approximately 275 miles, Southern California is often described as possessing the only Mediterranean climate in the United States. McWilliams disputed this; he found the region’s extreme temperateness “a
