Inside the Italian villa that launched some of the world’s great philanthropic programs

The Villa Serbelloni overlooking Lake Como in Italy, home to the Bellagio Center, as it looked in 1910. | Universal Images Group via Getty For more than 60 years, the Rockefeller Foundation has hosted scientists, academics, and artists for a unique summer program. In the annals...

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Google’s new AI chatbot seems boring. Maybe that’s the point.

Google emphasized the experimental nature of Bard when it rolled out the new tools on Tuesday. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The new tool, Bard, arrives six long weeks after Microsoft’s BingGPT release. Google’s long-awaited, AI-powered chatbot, Bard, is here. The company rolled it out...

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After bypassing Parliament, Macron wants French retirement age raised by end of year

FILE – French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech during the National Roundtable on Diplomacy at the foreign ministry in Paris, Thursday, March 16, 2023. President Macron will explain how he will seek to overcome tensions prompted by his plan to raise the retirement age from...

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