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Billionaire status Baby, he’s a rich man! Forbes just valued Paul McCartney’s net worth at $1.4 billion, making him the world’s third-wealthiest musician behind Jay-Z and Taylor Swift.

More weather extremes expected in 2027 The planet is on track for another year of punishing heat and extreme weather, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. The findings come as world leaders are gathering in Turkey this week for the COP31 climate summit, where efforts to address the crisis will take center stage. + Read more: Planetary extremes are ‘off the charts’ as world’s biggest climate talks kick off + Coming soon: A super-sized El Niño A taste of winter Winter will make its first cameo in the eastern US this week as a storm ushers in the coldest temperatures in six months for tens of millions of people. Some will see their first snow of the season.

GOP chooses leaders House Republicans picked Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as their minority leader for the new Congress, signaling they’re ready for all-out battle against Democrats in 2027. John Thune of South Dakota was reelected as Senate leader. Follow live updates. 🐘 Who is Jim Jordan? New leader has history as combative Trump defender + Analysis: A deep dive into the articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth ps:I can't believe that the GOP could get any stupider, but they did just that!!!!!

Judge jails Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, after he cut off his ankle monitor The 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was ordered to jail Tuesday because he removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle, just days after he was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. https://apnews.com/article/thomas-markle-charges-ankle-monitor-fce501251ffa12c5427a9a4f2b96b2ee?

Inflation runs hotter than expected as higher prices extend beyond the gas station WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation was higher than expected last month as the rising prices that powered sweeping Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections appear likely to pose ongoing challenges for the White House and the Federal Reserve. https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-holiday-inflation-tariffs-trump-fcd3c7766d3cdb36057f6dab19ff3a8e?

A climate villain the world is failing to tackle Methane is responsible for about 30% of global warming and traps roughly 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, making it one of the most powerful planet-heating gases. Cutting methane emissions could be one of the fastest ways to slow warming, but global levels continue to rise as experts warn that efforts to tackle the problem are falling short. + Read more: Methane has an outsized impact on our lives + Also: Global leaders meet as world faces extreme weather

A key race in limbo Thousands of voters in Mississippi’s Senate race are trying to make their ballots count following changes to the state’s voter rolls. The fate of those ballots could determine the outcome of the tight race between Democrat Scott Colom, who narrowly leads, and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. + Read more: What’s happening in Mississippi? + Video: Where do the other remaining midterm races stand?

A Newborn Died in a Faith-Healing Sect. The State — and One Ex-Believer — Stepped in to Save Her Twin. The deputy medical examiner thought the family was being evasive. Eric Tonsfeldt had been dispatched to the pistachio-green house in Oregon City on the night of March 5, 2017. Inside he found Sarah Mitchell in bed, her dead newborn in her arms. https://www.propublica.org/article/followers-of-christ-oregon-city-evelyn-marshall-phillips? Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen. *This story contains detailed descriptions of children and babies dying. A sheriff’s deputy opens the door of an Idaho farmhouse where a newborn baby has just died. It’s almost 10 p.m., but the house is filled with adults and children seated anywhere they can find a spot: in reclining chairs, on the wood-stove hearth, on a chest of drawers. Some of the women hold babies in their laps. https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ? Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing. An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to protect a dead child’s surviving siblings. https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-faith-healing-multiple-deaths? Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way. From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake. https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-law-faith-healing-exemption? Prophecy, Scorn and a Rejection of This World: The Forbidding Vision of a Faith-Healing Preacher It was a stark and forbidding vision for those who followed the righteous path. Scorn, the preacher told his congregation, was a person’s lot if they led an “honest, clean, pure, godly life.” The world hated “people that live like that,” he said. https://www.propublica.org/article/walter-white-faith-healing-oregon? “We Have No One” How Trump’s Dismantling of the VA Left a Veterans Hospital in Crisis This was not normal. But nothing had been normal at East Orange since President Donald Trump returned to office last year and set his sights on the VA. https://www.propublica.org/article/east-orange-va-hospital-veterans-decline-new-jersey? A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska’s Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic To an outsider, the research boats bobbing in the frigid and stormy Beaufort Sea off Alaska would seem little cause for alarm. Oil and gas companies have regularly explored the area for decades. https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-prudhoe-lng-polar-novatek? The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills In November 2015, world leaders descended on Paris to negotiate a historic agreement to limit global warming. But on the summit’s opening day, attention turned to a private citizen slouched awkwardly in a chair on stage: Bill Gates. https://www.propublica.org/article/bill-gates-republic-landfill-methane-pollution? Watch: Where Do Our Generic Drugs Come From? We Dug to Find Out. These days, we know where almost everything comes from. Everyday items like food, clothes and pens all carry labels listing where things are grown, manufactured or even designed. https://www.propublica.org/article/generic-prescription-drug-supply-fda-explained? Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back. On the last day of August, Jeff van den Noort spotted thick swirls of neon green film coating the water just steps from his home in Vermont. He waded in up to his ankles and dipped a jar to get a sample of the scum. https://www.propublica.org/article/lake-champlain-algae-bloom-cyanobacteria-water-pollution-vermont? Firm Linked to Trump’s Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump’s elder sons invested in its parent company, according to records and interviews. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-sons-xwell-xprestest-government-contracts? Lawyers in This State Are Allowed to Ghost Clients for Years. Why Don’t More Judges Stop Them? One morning in July 2025, I was the lone spectator in Judge Frank Palumbo’s courtroom in Philadelphia, watching prosecutors and public defenders haggle over the fates of defendants. https://www.propublica.org/article/post-conviction-legal-system-finley-judges-pennsylvania? An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn’t Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn’t Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot. The emergency room was a mile from their Texas home. Stephanie and Eric Biesenbach took comfort in that when their newborn daughter, Gwen, wouldn’t stop bleeding from her belly button. They buckled Gwen into her car seat and made the drive over. https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-texas-lonestar-emergency-room-nicole-malouf? Texas’ School Voucher Program Could Be “Unrecognizable, If Not Extinct,” Says Democratic Lawmaker Democrats won back the Texas House for the first time in 24 years. Gov. Greg Abbott’s bullishness on vouchers turned off some Republican voters in rural communities that have historically been strongholds for his party, politicians said. https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-school-vouchers-gina-hinojosa?

9 ¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Did Abdul El-Sayed call Michigan the 'capital of Arab America'? Michigan has a rich Arab American history, with reportedly the highest-concentrated Arab population in the country. Claim: On Nov. 6, Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, D-Mich., said "Michigan is the capital of Arab America." Rating: Correct Attribution On Nov. 3, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed made history as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. In the days that followed, a claim circulated that El-Sayed had said that "Michigan is the capital of Arab America," sparking vitriol from opponents. The alleged quote played into a trope — commonly used against Muslims, immigrants and other communities — that institutions such as the U.S. government are being "infiltrated" by foreigners. For example, the caption of one Facebook post sharing a purported clip of El-Sayed saying the quote began: "WE'VE BEEN INVADED" (archived). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/el-sayed-michigan-arab-america-quote/?

It was likely a misunderstanding. Liberal zealots believed toddlers were being denied sex reassignment medical care, became militant and acted out. The media was promptly there to offer support to the liberal agenda.

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November 10, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. It’s good to be back. Have you been following the Nvidia news? It sounds like a Ken Follett novel. Jensen Huang I-Hwa Cheng/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Chips down Imagine this for a moment: An alleged Chinese spy seduces the leader of the world’s second-biggest company in order to help her country beat the U.S. in a contest to master the future’s most important technology. The president of the United States is aware of the relationship. I’d read that thriller on a long-haul flight, absolutely. Except U.S. intelligence officials say it’s not a fiction. Over the weekend, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, the company that dominates the market for A.I. computer chips, admitted that he had an affair with a Chinese businesswoman, Alice Huang, who U.S. spy agencies said was a cutout for Beijing. (They’re not related. This isn’t a George R.R. Martin novel.) The company’s board is investigating the affair. It said it had “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised,” and that its chief executive would remain chief executive during the review. Yesterday, Beijing called the allegations “nothing but a smear against China.” The stakes There’s more to all this than romantic scandal and corporate espionage. The United States and China are in a race to control the future of artificial intelligence. Nvidia makes the chips that have for now put the United States ahead. To keep it that way, Washington bars Nvidia from selling chips to China. A screengrab from CTI video footage shows a woman identified by Reuters as Alice Huang. CTI/Reuters Enter Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen who is an executive at a Singapore-based data-center company called Megaspeed. It’s unclear when she first met Huang from Nvidia, but in 2024 they were photographed together at a bar in Taipei as Megaspeed prepared to spend $2 billion on Nvidia chips. Investigators from the U.S. Commerce Department were interested in that: Was Megaspeed helping China sidestep American export restrictions? Whom did she really work for? (Alice Huang has not responded to multiple attempts to reach her for comment in recent days.) U.S. officials concluded she was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information on the American C.E.O. and potentially to influence his company to funnel chips to China. That’s not how America wins the global competition for dominance of A.I. The markets sure didn’t like it. Huang doesn’t sit on top of a pyramid at Nvidia. He has 60 executives reporting directly to him. Should the board decide to punish him, there’s no obvious candidate to take his place. That has consequences. Until recently, Nvidia was the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. On Monday, its stock fell more than 4 percent, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. There could be political fallout as well. Huang is a close ally of President Trump. He is also friendly with the Chinese, whom he told Bloomberg are “not our enemies.” Last year, he persuaded the president to roll back some of the ban on chip sales to China, after which Nvidia sold its second-most valuable chip there. (The U.S. government took a 25 percent cut of the sales.) And Nvidia has given at least $20 million to Trump’s ballroom fund. What’s next? Nvidia’s board will investigate, though as my colleagues report, Huang’s grip on the company is so firm that it will be a challenge to discipline him. The board itself is thick with early investors and business partners. Those are long, financially fruitful relationships. The Republican leaders of three House committees have asked Huang to brief them in private this month. The Justice Department took over a federal investigation into Megaspeed after Commerce Department investigators working on the case received an email from Nvidia’s general counsel seeking information about the inquiry and saying that a top official at the department had given the company permission to reach out. Trump, at the moment, appears sanguine. He told reporters yesterday that he had asked Huang if he knew the woman he was seeing was a spy. “He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy,’ and I really believe him.” More on A.I. Voter measures to rein in data center construction threaten to slow down the A.I. boom. Some economists think that could be helpful. The Senate took an initial vote in favor of a sweeping, contentious plan to streamline permitting for power plants, gas pipelines and other energy infrastructure to meet soaring electricity demand, especially for A.I. data centers. FREE TO READ Nicholas J.R. White for The New York Times Unfinished quest: Henry Worsley died trying to cross Antarctica. Now his son is making his own attempt on the South Pole. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about Rob Sands, Iowa’s governor-elect, a former Prada model. Metropolitan Diary: Taking the bartender by surprise. ICE pushback: Watch the video below to learn how immigration raids helped turn Kansas blue. The New York Times THE LATEST NEWS Politics Thomas Massie Kenny Holston/The New York Times A Republican congressman reintroduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, accusing him of endangering troops and waging war without congressional approval. Lawmakers could vote on the articles as soon as this week. The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to keep building a border wall in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas, including within a national park. A federal judge ordered the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to comply with a federal subpoena to help ICE identify immigrants with a serious criminal history. Midterm Elections California voters rejected a proposed tax on billionaires. Trump, who initially said he would accept the midterm election results, renewed his unsubstantiated claims that voting was rigged. Senfronia Thompson, an 87-year-old known as Miss T, is poised to become the first woman, and the first Black lawmaker, to lead the Texas House of Representatives. With so much new blood, the average age of U.S. senators is falling, a little: The data assumes Democratic victories in Alaska and Mississippi. For the top chart, numbers are based on senators’ ages as of January 2027. For the bottom chart, ages are calculated based on the day that a particular Senate convened. The New York Times Around the World A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a domestic worker from Kenya to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage. She has tried for more than a year to return to Kenya with her child. (A Times investigation last year revealed how African women like her end up trapped in Saudi Arabia after becoming pregnant.) Russell Brand, the former comedy star, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison in Britain for rape and sexual assault. The C.I.A. is expanding operations in Mexico, a Times investigation found. Other Big Stories The judge presiding over Lindsay Clancy’s murder case denied a request to dismiss the charges against her, clearing the way for a second trial. Fishermen spotted someone treading water about 20 miles off the coast of California. He had fallen off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, where he worked as a pianist, his rescuers said. Demonstrators came to protest Philadelphia restaurants said to support Israel. Then a flood of counterprotesters arrived to buy food. FLOATERS Turkey is the top importer of plastic waste from Europe. The plastic is supposed to get recycled, but The Times found that much of it ends up in the ocean. Our reporters visited Adana, a recycling capital, and followed the pollution through canals (in one, the level of microplastics rose more than 130-fold) and out to the sea, where it travels for hundreds of miles. These pictures capture the broken waste economy. Samuel Granados/The New York Times OPINIONS JD Vance identified four issues that Republicans must address to win back support. He’s ignoring a key problem, a commentator who supports the party writes: old-fashioned corruption. The 2026 election might represent the moment the “red wall” of Southern states finally fell, E.J. Dionne Jr. argues. Morning readers, don’t miss The Midterms Sale on election coverage and more. What effect will the results have on the country? And on you? Stay informed with our best offer on The Times in full. Subscribe now. TODAY’S NUMBER 110 — That is at least how many immigrants with court-ordered protections have been handed over to foreign governments by the United States, only to then be sent to home countries where they risked torture, sexual abuse or persecution. The number is likely to grow. Read the Times investigation about Mustapha Camara, who ended up back in Gambia. SPORTS N.B.A.: The Golden State Warriors routed the New Orleans Pelicans by 51 points, their eighth consecutive victory. The injured star Jimmy Butler helped coach. College football: The playoff has 24 teams now. Here’s how the expanded version works. Women’s hockey: The world championships are underway but instead of focusing on the games, people are talking about ugly jerseys. RECIPE OF THE DAY Yossy Arefi for The New York Times I was out sick last week — out way sick, is how we used to put it — and didn’t eat food for the better part of a week. This Polish borscht helped bring me back to nutrition, sweet beet-and-beef broth run through with allium pungency and a splash of lemon. It’s not just for the bedridden. Chunk some of the cooked beets in with the strained broth, add sour cream and eat alongside a plate of pan-fried pierogi with applesauce and sauerkraut. Either way, you’ll be soaring like a white eagle. SUSSUDIO! Phil Collins Dana Scruggs for The New York Times Phil Collins, 75, has sold 100 million albums on his own, and 100 million more with Genesis. In advance of his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Times caught up with the hitmaker. The conversation’s fascinating, but stay for the details: Among other things, at 13, Collins played the Artful Dodger in the West End production of “Oliver!” Read more. More on culture M. John Harrison’s “The End of Everything,” a novel that imagines aliens occupying Britain, won the Booker Prize. It is the first science-fiction novel to have won this laurel. It beat out five high-profile titles, including Marlon James’s “The Disappearers” and Douglas Stuart’s “John of John.” Meet Henry Onesemo, a Samoan former luau dancer who has become one of New Zealand’s most prominent chefs. At Tala, his Auckland restaurant, Onesemo brings the tastes of his island youth to a broader audience. “My job is to tell the Samoan food story and put it in a place where it is respected,” he told The Times. You can practically smell the delicious smoke. Gary Fisketjon discovered and cultivated an army of literary talents, including Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt and Cormac McCarthy, earning him a reputation as one of the greatest literary editors of his generation. He died at 72. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Cristina Spanò Avoid getting your co-workers sick after you’ve recovered from a nasty illness. (This has been on my mind.) Follow these protocols from our Well desk. Listen to “Talafreako,” Lil Texxan’s off-the-dome rap track, which went viral last week. Jon Caramanica, our pop music critic, talked to the artist. Prepare your kitchen in advance of Thanksgiving. You can do it this weekend, but you may want to order a few essential tools in advance. The pantry coordinators at Wirecutter have nine in mind. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was bathroom. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. And thanks, too, for the good wishes while I was out. See you tomorrow. — Sam Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter misstated who was “only kidding” about offering the White House press secretary job to the U.F.C. chief executive Dana White. Trump said that, not his chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

The “War Dogs” Story Behind A $1.8 Billion ICE Windfall Court records and insider accounts reveal how companies linked to a developer facing bankruptcy and debt battles secured ICE contracts worth up to $1.8 billion. https://www.levernews.com/the-war-dogs-story-behind-a-1-8-billion-ice-windfall/?

THIS DAY IN HISTORY November 10 1775 Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. Read More Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT African History 1995 Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria Arts & Entertainment 1928 WWI novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” is published 1969 “Sesame Street” debuts 1973 Copies of “Slaughterhouse-Five” burned in North Dakota Civil War 1865 Henry Wirz hanged for murder Inventions & Science 1903 Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper Native American History 1808 Osage tribe cedes Missouri and Arkansas lands Natural Disasters & Environment 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sinks in Lake Superior Sports 1984 Maryland gets a miracle in Miami U.S. Presidents 2001 George W. Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism

School Closures Surge A total of 1,156 US public schools closed during the last academic year, the highest number since the pandemic. The figure, from a new analysis published this week, largely reflects declining birth rates and funding cuts. Student enrollment is falling faster than public schools are closing, with enrollment down by roughly 1.4 million students from 2019 to 2024. Analysts say the decline is primarily due to a multidecade drop in birth rates; the under-18 population fell by roughly 2.1 million children from 2010 to 2025. The federal immigration crackdown and postpandemic expansion of private school vouchers and homeschool options have also contributed. Projections indicate that tumbling enrollment could cost public schools roughly $11.5B in state funding annually by 2030-31, compared with revenue received in 2025-26, potentially spurring further closures. Research shows closures may not deliver the savings school districts expect, since busing, severance, and vacant-building security add costs. Displaced students also often experience long-term declines in reading and math scores. Compare state test scores here. And dive into the history of America's public education system here.

COP31 Begins The United Nations’ annual climate summit, known as the Conference of the Parties or COP, kicked off its 31st gathering yesterday in Antalya, Turkey. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will participate in the event; the US did not send an official federal delegation for the second consecutive year. COP31 commenced days after a European climate monitoring service reported that last month was the warmest October ever recorded. It also marked the third straight month to exceed the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold. Over the next two weeks, delegates will push countries to honor their previous emissions-reduction pledges and work to provide developing nations with funds to adapt to a warming climate. They will also try to resolve deadlocks over how to transition away from fossil fuels. Those efforts come as a recent UN report found the US drove one-third of the rise in global emissions last year, outpacing every other major economy. See an interactive visualization of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide here.

Congress Clocks In The 119th Congress resumed yesterday for the first time since last week’s wave of Democratic victories (see latest). Republicans have five scheduled legislative weeks left before losing control of both houses in January. Chief among Republican priorities is to pass a funding bill ahead of a Dec. 11 government shutdown deadline. Garnering support for the Pentagon’s annual policy bill amid an unpopular Iran war is also a priority. It also comes as outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R, KY-4) reintroduced a resolution yesterday to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on eight counts, including over his handling of the Iran war; a House vote could come as soon as this week. Massie separately predicts he will amass the 218 signatures necessary to force floor action on the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. Separately, the Senate voted 73-25 yesterday to advance a measure to speed up approval of data center development. Americans voted overwhelmingly last week to restrict data center construction through dozens of ballot initiatives (see the one place that didn't).

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California voters reject measure to tax the wealth of billionaires SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have rejected a first-in-the-nation tax on the net worth of billionaires following a contentious ballot fight that generated huge spending by some prominent tech leaders eager to stop their taxes from going up. https://apnews.com/article/california-billionaire-tax-4ae8cbdc057b99579818016f02ac9d9e?

🍁 Parting shot: Autumn in New York Photo: Natalie Daher/Axios I snapped this photo yesterday while visiting Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, Queens, after spending the afternoon at MoMA PS1. 🎨 MoMA PS1 is now free to visit through 2028, thanks to a gift from philanthropist Sonya Yu marking the museum's 50th anniversary. My subway take: Make all museums free!

Your next micro AI experiment Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Your AI chatbot can do a lot more than draft emails or summarize articles. New features can turn ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools into even better personal researchers, problem-solvers and amateur app developers. Why it matters: You don't need to be a tech expert to get more out of AI. Sometimes, you just need a few practical ideas for putting it to work. Inspired by The Washington Post's new guide to AI "power-ups," here are five ways to put your chatbot to work: 🔧 Fix something around the house: Snap a photo of a confusing error message on your dishwasher, thermostat or washing machine. Upload it with the model number, and ask AI to identify possible causes and suggest safe troubleshooting steps. I recently used AI to help authenticate a Herman Miller chair I bought secondhand on Facebook Marketplace, comparing its design details with changes in the chair's production over the years. 🗂️ Turn a pile of documents into a personal assistant: Upload vacation itineraries, travel confirmations and reservations into a ChatGPT Project or Google's NotebookLM. Ask it to build a day-by-day schedule, flag conflicts and answer questions about your trip. My color-coded honeymoon itinerary for Argentina and Chile next month is courtesy of Claude, not my spreadsheet skills. It was right on the suggestion to book a rental car in Bariloche; brushing up on my Spanish is on me. 🔎 Research a big purchase: Use a chatbot's Deep Research feature to compare refrigerators, mattresses or cars. Give it your budget and must-haves, and request a side-by-side breakdown of reliability, long-term costs and independent reviews. You can do the same for local services: AI helped me compare dog walkers and led me to Parkside Pups, which now walks my sweet poodle-beagle a few times a week. 🛠️ Build something just for you: Want a family trivia game, holiday gift tracker or personal website? Describe it in plain English and ask AI to build a working version — no coding experience required. It's called "vibe coding," and if you've checked out a journalist friend's portfolio lately, you may have seen it in action. 📑 Decode the fine print: That confusing clause buried in your 50-page homeowners insurance policy or warranty? Ask AI to explain exclusions, deductibles and coverage limits in plain English — and point you to the exact passages supporting its answers. Between the lines: AI can be confidently wrong. Double-check important advice and research, and run consequential decisions by a human you trust. Security is essential: Remove sensitive personal information before uploading documents, and check your chatbot's privacy settings. Gift link. Have you had an experience with a chatbot lately that saved you time or taught you something? Write us at finishline@axios.com.