Amazon’s plan for more than 1,000 same-day fulfillment centers is fundamentally an attempt to close Walmart’s long-held proximity advantage, Bank of America analysts wrote in a research note.Business Insider reported this week that Amazon is considering an internal project called Mercury, which would expand its same-day fulfillment network from roughly…
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Sydney Sweeney on a billboard in Times Square in her birthday suit and a tradwife milking a cow in a prairie-style dress have more in common than you might think.They both use a tactic we’ll call “outrage then deny.”First, they perform (very different) stereotypes of the ideal woman for lucrative attention: Sweeney the hot “pick me” girl, and tradwives like Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman and Nara Smith, the pious mother and wife. Then, when it…
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AI goes out of control. It’s launching a devastating cyberattack. Flip a kill switch, and…
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Stephen Campbell knows the cigarettes didn’t land him one of his biggest deals, but they certainly lit the match.The cofounder of the startup Revamp AI was in Shenzhen, meeting with what he calls an “enormous” Chinese tech company. (He’s under NDA with them.) The initial meeting was stressful, especially because…
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View MorePresident Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the prospect of Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union as “laughable,” warning that the U.S. could impose heavy tariffs on Europe if he believed such a move was made with “bad intention.” Trump was asked by reporters about the prospect of…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessica Cruel, the 37-year-old editor in chief of Allure Magazine, who lives in Newark, New Jersey. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m the editor in chief of Allure, and I have a lot of things going on. My day…
