Hoda Kotb has no regrets about departing from Today. Speaking to People, Kotb reflected on her emotional decision to leave the long-running morning show in January after 18 years. And rest assured, there was no bad blood behind her departure. Instead, Kotb, 60, chose to prioritize time with her two daughters, Haley, 8, and Hope, 6, after Hope was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Since her diagnosis, Kotb says Hope requires “constant care,” which made the show’s rigid schedule too difficult to maintain. However, the mom of two assured People that Hope remains a “happy, healthy, rambunctious, amazing kid.” Kotb first joined Today in 2007 as host of its fourth hour broadcast, where she became a breakout star alongside co-host Kathy Lee Gifford. In 2018, she took on anchoring the show’s main hour alongside Savannah Guthrie, making them the first female anchor duo in Today’s 73-year history. Kotb previously told Jimmy Fallon that she’d realized it was time to leave the show while celebrating her 60th birthday last summer. Kotb remains on good terms with her former co-hosts, and even revisited her old job this week as a recurring guest on Jenna Bush Hager’s solo hour, Today with Jenna & Friends.

AI could erase half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and hike unemployment to 10-20 percent within the next one to five years, tech billionaire Dario Amodei warns. Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic—one of the leading companies developing artificial intelligence—told Axios that the government and AI companies need to stop “sugar-coating” the scale of the threat and warn people of the looming job apocalypse facing industries like finance, tech, and law. “We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming,” Amodei said. “I don’t think this is on people’s radar.” He added that most Americans are “unaware that this is about to happen” to junior positions in the corporate world. “It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it,” Amodei said. But there are some signs the crisis is already here. Meta announced it would reduce its payroll by 5 percent shortly after CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that his company and others are working on AI that “can effectively be a sort of mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code.” Top Trump ally Steve Bannon also told Axios the issue of AI job elimination will likely play a major role in the 2028 presidential election, and that “entry-level jobs that are so important in your 20s are going to be eviscerated.”

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Actress Margot Robbie has given fans a sneak peek inside the stylish new Los Angeles headquarters of her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, complete with a touch of Barbiecore. Robbie revealed she couldn’t resist holding on to some furniture from the Barbie movie set that was just too glam to let go. “The chairs are actually in the Barbie movie when you’re in the Mattel CEO office and all the Mattel guys are sitting around on the pink chairs,” the actress said in a behind-the-scenes tour filmed by Architectural Digest. With the help of London-based interior designer Scarlett Hessian of Studio Hessian, the $3,195 blush pink Saarinen armchairs were reupholstered with a rusty orange and white checkered print to match the mid-century modern-inspired workspace, which Robbie co-founded with husband Tom Ackerley and friend Josey McNamara. “We just had them reupholstered, because at the end of the movie—I mean, they were quite expensive, actually—I was like, ‘Wait, what’s going to happen to these chairs?’” Robbie said.

Kool & the Gang hype-man, stylist and choreographer Michael Sumler, aka “Chicago Mike,” has died aged 71 following a car crash just outside Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday night. The music industry veteran, who also acted as a backing vocalist for the legendary funk, soul and R&B band, was behind the wheel of a car when it collided with another vehicle near Buckner Road. “It was a devastating blow,” Sumler’s friend Adrian Meeks told Fox 5 Atlanta. “It’s like no, no, no, not Mike.” Sumler first joined Kool in 1985 and remained active in the music scene his whole life, continuing to mentor young musicians to this day. “He always wanted to see other people succeed in the business that he’d been around most of all of his life,” Meeks added. “He was the bridge, you know, for inspiring artists and songwriters and producers and musicians to the legends.” Greg Williams of Switch Entertainment said Sumler was “one of these people God put on a planet to teach people how to act because he was kind, he was thoughtful, he was intelligent, he was articulate and he was the life of the party.” A memorial for Sumler is being planned by friends and family.

A Delta Air Lines flight was delayed twice by a pair of pigeons causing havoc in the cabin. Delta Flight 2348, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Madison, Wisconsin, was taxiing to the runway for takeoff Saturday when the first bird was discovered. The plane was forced back to the gate, where ground crew safely removed the bird. However, the drama was not over as a second pigeon then appeared as the Delta plane was preparing for a second takeoff attempt. A baggage handler took the second bird away and the flight left 56 minutes late. Social media footage shows a man trying to catch one of the stowaway birds as it flies through the cabin. Tom Caw, who filmed the bizarre incident, wrote: “[The] pilot said when he radioed the control tower about us coming back due to a pigeon, the guy said that was a first for him. Pilot told him it was the second time for him—the first being half an hour earlier.” Delta has apologized to passengers for the surreal episode.

Deborra-Lee Furness has spoken of “betrayal” as her divorce from Hugh Jackman takes an unexpected turn. Furness announced her plan to officially file for divorce on Tuesday afternoon. Now in a statement to the Daily Mail, the Australian actress, 69, has given an insight into her state of mind two years after the pair announced their split. “My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal,” Furness said. “It’s a profound wound that cuts deep, however I believe in a higher power and that God/the universe... is always working FOR us.” Furness continued “This belief has helped me navigate the breakdown of an almost three-decade marriage.” She said the experience had provided her with knowledge and wisdom. “Even when we are presented with apparent adversity, it is leading us to our greatest good, our true purpose. It can hurt, but in the long run, returning to yourself and living within your own integrity, values and boundaries is liberation and freedom.” Furness noted she believed “none of this is personal” and that “the relationships in our lives are not random.” She signed off saying “We are drawn to people, we invite them in, in order to learn our lessons and to recognize and heal the broken parts of ourselves...I remain grateful.”

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King Charles III has bid Canada farewell after a brief but memorable visit that reinforced Canada’s strong stand against President Donald Trump’s threats. “As my wife and I leave Canada, we wanted to send our most heartfelt thanks to all those who turned out to offer their support on this, my first visit as Sovereign,” the British monarch said in a joint note with Queen Camilla posted on X. “It was the warmest of welcomes - and the fondest of returns to a land and a people we love.” As leader of the Commonwealth, the king is Canada’s head of state, and he made the whirlwind trip across the Atlantic to speak at the opening of the new Canadian parliament, a rarity for a monarch. His trip appeared aimed at reinforcing Canada’s independence amid Trump’s threats to make the United States’ North American neighbor the 51st U.S. state as well as his new tariffs on Canadian imports. The king alluded to those tensions in his speech, emphasizing Canada’s sovereignty in language widely viewed as a rebuke to Trump’s provocations. He signed off his message on X, “Until the next time, au revoir, Canada, et avec tous nos remerciements,” meaning “Goodbye, Canada, and with all our thanks.”

New details behind the cause of the fire that killed singer Jill Sobule have emerged. Sobule, who was 66, was discovered in the second floor bedroom of her friend’s Minnesota home after a fire that broke out around 5.37am on May 1. The Woodbury Public Safety’s fire report states “abandoned or discarded materials or products” were contributing factors to the ignition, the New York Post reports. While the investigation into how the fire began is continuing, experts believe it may have started outside. There is now “extreme damage” to the entire home. The report states those inside the home were asleep when the fire broke out, and did not appear to be impaired by drugs or alcohol. The home was fitted with smoke detectors. Sobule’s two friends heard the alarms and fled the house, but thought the singer was with them. The new report details what firefighters were told as they arrived at the house. “Initial reports stated there was no one inside” but on the way to the fire “a dispatch update revealed there was one person still inside the home.” Firefighters were initially unable to enter due to “heavy amounts of smoke and flames coming from the front door and front windows.”