Theater review: Yale Rep gives new play ‘Furlough’s Paradise’ a cosmic effects-laden production

The play by a.k. payne about grieving cousins is the final show of the James Bundy era at Yale Repertory Theatre.
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
The Boston Globe

‘When Playwrights Kill’ is a go-for-broke blast

Matthew Lombardo’s “When Playwrights Kill” begins at the Huntington Theatre with a young guy telling an anecdote about Neil Simon and Mary Tyler Moore. You might expect that a Neil Simon play is ...
Hosted on MSN

"When Playwrights Kill" to debut in Boston with audience as the final scene partner

A new play debuting in Boston was inspired by a real theatrical engagement at the Huntington Theater, which starred a legendary actress. A long-standing Senate tradition is being quietly undermined ...
New York Magazine

The People Falsely Accused of Using AI

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...
Staten Island Advance

Sea View Theatre brings drama to Staten Island this weekend with ‘American Son’

Sea View Playwright’s Theatre continues its run of Christopher Demos-Brown’s “American Son” this weekend, tackling conversations about race, racism and the criminal justice system through an intense ...
The New York Times

New York Theater Settles Case That Argued Discounts Were Discriminatory

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit objected to a “BIPOC night” program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit. By Michael Paulson A prominent nonprofit theater ...
GitHub

An example test automation framework built with Java, Junit5, Spring, WebTestClient, & Playwright

Countercheck has a couple of intended uses: 🏃‍ ️ A hit-the-ground-running drop-in solution for people needing a Java-based test automation framework ⚙️ An example of how a framework can be structured ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren't slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgrade: ...
The Conversation

Using AI responsibly means knowing when not to use it

Most AI training teaches you how to get outputs. Write a better prompt. Refine your query. Generate content faster. This approach treats AI as a productivity tool and measures success by speed. It ...
The Boston Globe

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s ‘Zabel in Exile’ is a family affair

Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s love for theater started early. As a child, her father, R.N. Sandberg, a playwright and theater professor, took her to one of his classes at Cornish College of the ...