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A new startup aims to reinvent how people discover their next favorite place to dine and, one day, perhaps more. Zest, a newly launched restaurant discovery app, uses a combination of transaction data and AI to make personalized restaurant recommendations based on where people actually go to eat, drink, or grab a coffee. Founded in November 2024, Zest currently has $1.8 million in pre-seed funding from Alexis Ohanian at 776 and Steve Jang at Kindred Ventures. It has been in beta testing since nearly day one, expanding from friends and family to larger groups over time. Now, the app has…

More than 35 million people live along the New York–Washington corridor and breathe the region’s air. While air quality has improved significantly in recent decades, outbreaks of ground-level ozone remain common, particularly in the warm summer months, when the chemical reactions that produce the pollutant accelerate and stagnant air allows ozone to accumulate. A reminder of this seasonal phenomenon came earlier than usual in 2026, when a mid-May heat wave prompted the New York State Department of Health and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to issue a health advisory on May 17 over concerns about ozone. The code…

Gillingham defender Andy Smith says watching his old team win promotion and seeing friends at the World Cup has given him extra motivation to succeed.Smith’s former club Hull City secured their top-flight return through the Championship play-offs last month and Smith, who left them permanently for Gillingham last summer after a successful loan spell, was among those celebrating from afar.Andy Smith has been motivated by the success of his former club and the upcoming World Cup Picture: @Julian_KPISmith said: “Good friends of mine are still at the club and watching them succeed at Wembley and get promotion to the Premier…

Market analysts have cautioned that Bitcoin and gold may face further headwinds this year following a 4.2% annual increase in the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) in May, according to figures released on Wednesday. The surge in the consumer price index, a broad gauge of goods and services costs across the US economy, deflated hopes that the central bank will reduce rates, with some analysts now expecting rate hikes later this year — bad news for riskier assets such as crypto. US inflation surges to a three-year high. Source: Trading Economics Bitcoin has already had a troubling first half of the…

If founders and other business leaders weren’t already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies — currently valued by private market investors at roughly the trillion-dollar mark little more than five years after it was founded — they’re going to be seriously envious now. In a new sit-down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, he reveals he has just one direct report; that’s his chief of staff. Everyone else on Anthropic’s executive team reports to his sister, co-founder and President Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations. Anyone who has managed a large team knows that…

Frustrated Kent Spitfires captain Sam Billings admitted his team are making the same mistakes.Kent lost by just three runs at Essex on Tuesday, a second Vitality Blast loss in the space of three days after they were outplayed by Sussex.Sam Billings hit 62 off 38 balls for Kent Spitfires against Essex. Picture: Keith GillardEssex scored 72 runs in the last five overs to post 187-6 before Spitfires slumped to 61-4 in reply, some late blows taking them close to a successful chase on 184-9.“Obviously, the last six overs with the ball let us down,” said Billings. “I think they scored…

Opendoor, the San Francisco-based online home-buying platform, is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding its presence in the country. The decision has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether AI is starting to alter the economics of offshore work. In announcing the decision on Wednesday, CEO Kaz Nejatian cited a push to bring operational work back to the U.S., where Opendoor’s customers are, and a shift toward smaller AI-native teams. The company did not respond to requests for comment on how many employees were affected or how much of the decision was driven by…

The figure, revealed in Rightmove’s latest analysis of the housing market outside London, puts Hove among the top 10 priciest places for people taking their first step onto the property ladder. According to the property website, the average asking price for a typical first-time buyer property in Hove is £326,783. These properties are defined as homes with two bedrooms or fewer, including houses and flats. Hove named one of Britain’s most expensive spots for first-time buyers Colleen Babcock, a property expert at Rightmove, said: “Affordability continues to shape where first-time buyers are looking, and we’re seeing the strongest price growth…

Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup Decart says it has built the foundational infrastructure needed to support the coming robotics revolution, making it available to developers in the shape of Oasis 3, the company’s most advanced world model to date. For the past few years, the promise of a revolution in general-purpose robotics has seemed tantalisingly close. We’ve been treated to all kinds of exciting hardware demos of robots cleaning people’s homes, strolling around warehouses and stacking items on shelves, and even robotic dogs designed to assist in search and rescue operations. But to see them actually doing these things in the…

One of the biggest selling points for modern AI systems is their ability to adapt to users. Every time an AI assistant takes on a task for you, it’s also adapting to your style and preferences, which are incorporated as context for future tasks. With more context and an improved understanding of the user, the model can get better every time you use it — or at least that’s the theory. New research suggests that models’ adaptive abilities might be a mixed blessing. On Wednesday, researchers at the AI company Writer published two papers showing how popular memory systems can…