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“This is one of the first times that an AI company has rolled out a guardrail and there has been uniform disdain,” said Sayash Kapoor, an AI researcher at Princeton University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The glassy-winged sharpshooter was first reported in California in the early 1990s and is native to the southeastern U.S. and northeastern Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Anthropic’s revenue recently surged after its coding tool Claude Code went viral among software engineers, and the five-year-old startup surpassed OpenAI’s valuation for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Los Angeles made the playoffs each year since the 2021-22 season, but the team did not advance past the first round.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“My parents have better jobs now, but when I first got into music, we had no money for lessons,” he confides.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold