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Vanity Fair Oscar Party Serves up Domino’s and In-N-Out

Vanity Fair Oscar Party Serves up Domino’s and In-N-Out

It may have been a party for Hollywood’s most glamorous — but some decidedly déclassé food still managed to make an appearance. At the Vanity Fair Oscars bash, where this year’s guest list was whittled down to the most famous and powerful and members of the press weren’t allowed in, A-listers like Nicole Kidman, Mick Jagger and (an Oscar-less) Timothée Chalamet with main squeeze Kylie Jenner on his arm were spotted grazing at a gourmet spread from chef Evan Funke. The Mother Wolf restaurateur served an Italian feast that included Lasagna alla Cantonese, sea bass and grilled prime ribeye alongside an array of his signature homemade pastas. If that was too highfalutin’, slices of Domino’s pizza circulated in custom slice boxes emblazoned with the all-too-familiar red-and-blue logo. And keeping the high-low tradition alive, guests could also snack on In-N-Out burgers. The L.A. favorite fast-food chain has popped up at the VF party since the reign of longtime editor Graydon Carter, who launched the party in 1994 shortly after taking over the magazine. Carter was absent from …

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was built by two engineers in three months. Seventy percent of its code was written by AI. And it is now used by more than 4,000 of OpenAI’s roughly 5,000 employees every day — making it one of the most aggressive deployments of an AI data agent inside any company, anywhere. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Emma Tang, the head of data infrastructure at OpenAI whose team built the agent, offered a rare look inside the system — how it works, how it fails, and what it signals about the future of enterprise data. The conversation, paired with the company’s blog post announcing the tool, paints a picture of a company that turned its own AI on itself and discovered …

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves thousands of employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was built by two engineers in three months. Seventy percent of its code was written by AI. And it is now used by thousands of OpenAI’s employees every day — making it one of the most aggressive deployments of an AI data agent inside any company, anywhere. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Emma Tang, the head of data infrastructure at OpenAI whose team built the agent, offered a rare look inside the system — how it works, how it fails, and what it signals about the future of enterprise data. The conversation, paired with the company’s blog post announcing the tool, paints a picture of a company that turned its own AI on itself and discovered something that every enterprise …

New archbishop serves Indigenous Catholics

New archbishop serves Indigenous Catholics

As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers went into the fields. He directed the choir, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood. Little did he know that this dedication would take him halfway around the world on a vast cross-cultural journey — ministering among Canada’s Indigenous Catholics, learning their language, culture and historical traumas. He hosted Pope Francis at his Edmonton parish when the late pontiff visited Canada in 2022 to apologize for the Catholic Church’s collaboration with the “catastrophic” system of Indigenous residential schools. And as of Jan. 26, Jesu is now an archbishop for northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. He’ll oversee ministry to about 49,000 Catholics, mostly Indigenous, dispersed across a region larger than Texas. In a ceremony punctuated by traditional drumming — as well as songs and prayers in an unusual combination of Cree, Dene, English, French, Oji-Cree and his native Tamil — Jesu was consecrated archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas. Jesu’s first order of business is …

This tiny cylinder on HDMI cables actually serves a purpose

This tiny cylinder on HDMI cables actually serves a purpose

You’ve probably noticed it before—that small cylindrical bulge wrapping around the connector end of your HDMI cable. Most people would ignore it and use the cable for its intended purpose, but that little cylinder is genuinely trying to solve a real engineering problem. It isn’t always necessary for modern cables, and you should stop using old HDMI cables if you haven’t upgraded yet. However, understanding what it does will help you appreciate why manufacturers still include it and when it actually matters. That weird HDMI cable bump has a name Meet the ferrite core you’ve been ignoring Levent Konuk / ShutterstockCredit: Levent Konuk / Shutterstock That tiny cylinder you see on your HDMI cable is called a ferrite core, but it goes by many names, including ferrite bead, ferrite choke, EMI filter, and more. It’s constructed from a ceramic material made from iron, nickel, and zinc oxides compressed into shape. It’s designed to act as a magnetic inductor wrapped around your cable. The magic isn’t in fancy materials or exotic engineering. It’s in the physics of …

How France’s fixation with decline serves the Trumpian narrative

How France’s fixation with decline serves the Trumpian narrative

COLCANOPA The lament of decline is a familiar yet persistent refrain. In the wake of the American intervention in Venezuela and threats made by US President Donald Trump regarding the territorial integrity of Greenland, it has echoed widely across the political spectrum. “France is now among the weak,” said retired general Pierre de Villiers on Monday, January 5, to Le Figaro. And the Europeans? “Impotent spectators to the unraveling of any kind of order, and (…) blissful defenders of institutions now entirely outdated,” said Gabriel Attal, head of the centrist Renaissance party, on January 3 on X. Former prime minister Edouard Philippe echoed this sentiment in Le Figaro: “Europe has become a commentator.” The perception of decline, while not new, has taken on fresh resonance. Geopolitically, because declinism has become one of the tools used by the United States to weaken Europe. Electorally, the narrative of decline threatens to dominate the 2027 French presidential campaign. Government instability and the absence of a budget have provided fertile ground for declinist discourse in France. Despite its national …

Dua Lipa serves up party fever in flame-printed leather look

Dua Lipa serves up party fever in flame-printed leather look

Leave it to Dua Lipa to score the best New Year’s Eve look in the Hollywood sphere. The singer served up party perfection on December 31, seeing the year out alongside family and her husband-to-be Callum Turner. The 30-year-old slipped into an archival gem for the long-awaited evening – a vintage Thierry Mugler Couture blazer crafted from buttery soft leather with a zesty orange flame print. A concealed front snap button closure and a stand up collar topped off the rare look, which hailed from Lord of Luxury Vintage. Dua styled out her preloved garment with a black leather mini skirt dotted with gold coin buttons and sheer black tights. She wore her silky raven tresses down loose, accessorising with a selection of curated silver jewels and a dazzling multicoloured manicure that glimmered under the venue lights.  © @dualipaDua Lipa wore vintage Thierry Mugler to celebrate New Tear’s Eve The singer captioned her joyful carousel of images: “Somehow this feels like a facebook post… HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026. Wishing you all so much love and …

“The Ringmaster”: When a documentary about the world’s best onion rings serves up a sobering twist

“The Ringmaster”: When a documentary about the world’s best onion rings serves up a sobering twist

“The Ringmaster,” screening at the DC Indie Film Festival (March 4-8), is a quirky documentary about onion rings. Not just any onion rings — Worthington, Minn., native Larry Lang’s homemade onion rings. Well, actually, the film isn’t entirely about onion rings; rather it is about Zachary Capp’s efforts to make a documentary about Larry Lang’s onion rings. Capp wants to propel this aging chef’s signature dish from a single restaurant to the world stage. Alas, things don’t quite go as planned. “The Ringmaster,” directed by Molly Dworsky and Dave Newberg, chronicles how Capp, who has an addictive personality — he is a reformed gambling addict — tries to better Lang’s life. However, he manipulates and arguably exploits the chef, for the sake of his self-funded film. (Capp spends boatloads of his inheritance making his documentary over three years until his colleagues tell him, “Enough!”) The humble Larry, who was making his rings in a local saloon, was reluctant to be part of the film. He is also blasé in participating in what might have been …