I planned to travel indefinitely — instead, I started a company in rural Japan

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kira Bella, 25, the CEO of Kirameki, an experiential travel company in Japan. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… After graduating from college, I made plans to travel indefinitely, and I began with a year visiting 16 countries across Asia and Europe — but Japan checked all the boxes for me in a way that nowhere else did.I moved there on a…

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Mortgage rates rise to 6.3%: Freddie Mac

Mortgage rates ticked slightly higher this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.3%, up from 6.23% last week. The average rate on a 30-year loan was 6.76% at this…

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Judge tells Elon Musk to cool it on the robot apocalypse talk

AI safety, yes. AI apocalypse, no. Loading audio narration… The California judge overseeing Elon Musk’s civil trial against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman shut down the Tesla CEO’s robot-apocalypse talk on Thursday — drawing a hard line against any further doomsday speculation in her courtroom.”We’re not going to talk about…

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