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ChatGPT has entered the group chat. Texters have…feelings about it.

A hot new bombshell has entered the group chat: ChatGPT.OpenAI announced a new plugin for Apple Messages on Thursday. On a Mac, ChatGPT can now search your text messages, draft replies, and hit send. The company suggested using prompts to look for birthday or spam messages to delete.The launch cracked…

I spent a year driving across the US in an RV. These were 7 of my favorite places — and the 2 I’d skip next time.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sarah Silbiger, a 30-year-old freelance video and photojournalist based in Philadelphia. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In 2023, my now fiancé and I sold all our belongings, took a sabbatical, and kicked off a yearlong road trip around the US in an RV.I grew up in Philadelphia, so I was not accustomed to seeing the American Southwest. It’s a starkly different landscape.After traveling…

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Next-day shipping is old news. Now, it’s all about hours — or minutes

US shoppers want their stuff faster, and more retailers are responding with delivery options that would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago.Comments this week from Target, Walmart, and Home Depot show that a new benchmark of three hours or less is emerging for customers willing to pay an…

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Pizza Hut is temporarily dropping “Pizza” from its name as the restaurant chain leans into football season while its parent company moves ahead with a multibillion-dollar sale of the iconic brand. The chain said this week that it will go by “Hut” for the next 25 weeks, coinciding with the…

Markets

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Silicon Valley threw a hot robot party, and the clankers were M.I.A.

At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find.This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. They came from across the country…

Investing

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