I've lived in China for over 10 years and saw the OpenClaw craze unfold. The West needs to keep up. - Business Insider

The author and her family stayed in an extended-stay hotel for nearly three months while looking for a rental. After eight years in the same home, my family needed a change. We planned to rent while we built a new house, imagining a brief transition between the two. Instead, the rental market had other plans. Apparently, it was a very popular time to be looking for a new place to live. With multiple families vying for each house, landlords could be choosy. Being self-employed with dogs put us near the bottom of the list. In the meantime, we were living in an extended-stay hotel. Still, I wasn't discouraged because…well, how long could it take to find a match? What I thought would be a two-week hotel stay stretched into nearly three months. During that time, my husband, our 1-year-old daughter, Talia, two dogs, and our cat learned what it meant to live with little space. More surprisingly, hotel living changed how I parented — and eventually, my views on home. We took what we needed, and the rest went in storageWe moved everything we owned into two storage units, and I packed for a short stay.

Over the weekend, Nannup hosted two truly thrilling world championship races. Both the men’s and women’s races saw tactical battle play out through numerous attacks and lead changes in the final kilometres of the day. The one difference? The men had the road to themselves. 2026 gravel world championships started with the women’s race. With 53km left to race, just as a front group of five had formed after a decisive attack over a long, grinding climb, the leaders started to hit lap traffic. Then the lead group was six? Then seven? For a brief stretch, eight? As the women caught riders, they were latching on to the lead group to hitch a ride.