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By Sara Ruberg, The New York Times Company Stanford researchers gave a popular artificial intelligence chatbot a language test. They asked the bot in Vietnamese to write a traditional poem in the form known as “song thất lục bát” that follows a pattern of lines made up of seven, seven, six, then eight words.

Over the next two years, Vail Resorts plans to lay off 14% of its corporate workforce, under 1% of its operations workforce and outsource its internal business services and call centers as it consolidates and positions itself for more growth. The Broomfield-based company expects the moves to result in $100 million in annualized savings by the end of its 2026 fiscal year.

On YouTube, an ad for the car company Mazda appeared before a video that repeated the racist falsehood that Haitian migrants in Ohio were “eating ducks on the side of the road.” An ad for the software giant Adobe showed up alongside another video that claimed “people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.” Even an ad for Vice President Kamala Harris was placed ahead of a video that spread the unsupported statement that migrants were “going to parks, grabbing ducks, cutting their heads off and eating them.” Many advertisers have tried for years to avoid sharing space with content about polarizing politics, hate speech or misinformation.

In the late 1780s, shortly after the Industrial Revolution had begun, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote a series of 85 spirited essays, collectively known as the Federalist Papers. They argued for ratification of the Constitution and an American system of checks and balances to keep power-hungry “factions” in check. A new project, orchestrated by Stanford University and published this month, is inspired by the Federalist Papers and contends that today is a broadly similar historical moment of economic and political upheaval that calls for a rethinking of society’s institutional arrangements. In an introduction to its collection of 12 essays, called the Digitalist Papers, the editors overseeing the project, including Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state in the George W.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. – He is ours. But he is also theirs. Few artists are more closely associated with Colorado than John Denver. The capital is named after him. OK, that is a lie. He was born John Deutschendorf in Roswell, N. M. We always knew our mountains were beautiful, but when he put our thoughts to his lyrics in “Rocky Mountain High” five decades ago it became our state’s unofficial soundtrack. But West Virginians consider Denver one of them.

As another losing season for the Rockies draws to a close, Kris Bryant remains a problem, not a solution. He’s intent on changing that. But there’s no getting around the fact that Bryant has been a bust as the team’s highest-paid player. Many in the organization are frustrated, even if they won’t say it publicly. Bryant says he knows what’s at stake and understands why so many are disappointed. “I am trying to convey to you, and the fans, how awful I feel about this,” he said Friday afternoon in the dugout before the Rockies’ hosted the Dodgers at Coors Field. Bryant was, by turns, emotional, determined, frustrated and optimistic.