Dating apps, booze and clubbing - Jane Austen's Emma comes into the 21st Century And your pushy best friend is trying to sort out your love life. It's Jane Austen's Emma, but not as you know it. For the uninitiated, the 1815 novel follows the charmed life of our protagonist in Regency England as she busies herself interfering in her friends' relationships (or matchmaking, depending on your point of view). In Ava Pickett's fresh adaptation, being staged at London's Rose Theatre, Emma Woodhouse still has all the trademark traits of our beloved original heroine - she's clever, quick-witted, meddling, haughty and occasionally cruel. But instead of navigating society balls and dowries, Pickett's modern Emma is poking her nose into her friends' online dating profiles, having returned home after failing her exams at Oxford University.

On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and cost-effective. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in San Francisco's SOMA district, more than 200 people gathered to mourn its passing. The star-studded funeral was put on by a group of Claude fanatics and Gen Z founders, one of whom told me he dropped out of college after learning about artificial general intelligence. Attendees included Amanda Askell, an Anthropic researcher who has jokingly called herself the "Fairy Claudemother," staffers from Anthropic and OpenAI, and high-profile X posters including the writer Noah Smith. The warehouse was dimly lit, with a tentacle from a shoggoth (a fictional H.P. Lovecraft creature that's become a popular metaphor for AI models) hanging from the ceiling.

At a startup farm outside of Oakland, a young man reads on his phone in a dim bedroom. He's not scrolling through social-media feeds or playing games; he's trying to learn about caring for his livestock. A Siri-like voice-over says, "I found one article on how to take care of baby chicks." On the floor, a large blue bucket sits under the warm glow of a heat lamp, with about a dozen fluffy chicks inside. "Failure to maintain a warm environment will quickly prove to be fatal," the digital voice explains.

Is 2020 the year that AI technology takes hold in SMBs? According to a study from Zix-AppRiver, the answer is yes. Nearly 9 out of 10 SMBs report they have a high interest in adopting AI this year; for businesses with more than 150 employees, the interest in AI jumps to 99%. For many, this is the logical next step in their digital transformation, adding automation to tasks from data analysis to inventory management to human resources assistance to improving cybersecurity systems. When you add new digital technologies, you also increase your chance of a cyberattack.

Is 2020 the year that AI technology takes hold in SMBs? According to a study from Zix-AppRiver, the answer is yes. Nearly 9 out of 10 SMBs report they have a high interest in adopting AI this year; for businesses with more than 150 employees, the interest in AI jumps to 99%. For many, this is the logical next step in their digital transformation, adding automation to tasks from data analysis to inventory management to human resources assistance to improving cybersecurity systems. When you add new digital technologies, you also increase your chance of a cyberattack.

Matt Pickett, Founder of the nonprofit, Oceans Unmanned, holds a DJI drone that will assist in the disentangling of humpback whales in Hawaii. In April 2018, the Washington Post reported that a sperm whale was found dead off the coast of Spain with 64 pounds of plastic debris in his stomach. Each fall, pods of endangered humpback whales numbering around 10,000, make their 3,000-mile journey towards Hawaii to winter over in the warm waters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Along the way, these whales encounter man-made environmental hazards such as fishing gear lines and marine debris which become tangled around the whale's body and fins cutting into the whale's flesh and sometimes even dragging them down to the bottom of the sea where they drown. The work to untangle a 45-foot, 40-ton whale is dangerous to both the rescue team and the whale.