Alyona Uvarova

covering business and culture with a bilingual pinch | currently @TIME | all views are my own

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I spoke with the school that planed to roll out an AI-powered humanoid as a teaching assistant this fall.

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A school in New York went from rolling out a new AI-powered, humanoid-robot teaching assistant to triggering the potential for a statewide ban of humanoid robots in the classroom.

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A school in New York went from rolling out a new AI-powered, humanoid-robot teaching assistant to triggering the potential for a statewide ban of humanoid robots in the classroom.

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Tennis, just like soccer, has been automating officiating at tournaments: this year’s U.S. Open is no exception. The red lights you might have seen on the nets are an extension of the line-calling technology, which replaced line judges on courts by 2022. This is the system making all the “out” calls. TIME video producer Alyona Uvarova spoke with U.S. Open tournament referee Jake Garner about how the technology works.

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My friend @alenkacc is the coolest person alive.

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Huge thanks to @JoannaStern for indulging into our book recommendation game

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Journalist Joanna Stern spent 2025 conducting her most ambitious tech experiment yet: letting AI into nearly every corner of her life for an entire year — from doctor’s appointments to responding to her wife’s texts.

For the seventh episode of our book recommendation series, TIME’s books editor Lucy Feldman asked Stern — author of ‘I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything’ — to share her top tech book recommendations.

Location: McNally Jackson

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On documentary theater for @TIME 🎥

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“While theater is not therapy, it can be incredibly therapeutic,” says psychologist Jenny Shields. That therapeutic effect is something participants in verbatim theater might experience, as they perform their own lived experiences rather than a fictional script.

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“While theater is not therapy, it can be incredibly therapeutic,” says psychologist Jenny Shields. That therapeutic effect is something participants in verbatim theater might experience, as they perform their own lived experiences rather than a fictional script.

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@BigJhay_10 @TIME Hi! The reporter who did the story here. The tickets to this play were $18 each 🙌

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When Bad Bunny took the stage Sunday for the first-ever halftime show performed entirely in Spanish, viewers noticed something unexpected on the field: the “grass people.”

Dressed as bunches of grass, the performers transformed the stadium into Puerto Rico’s sugarcane fields—and quickly became a viral sensation.

TIME interviewed one of nearly 400 performers whose entire job was to stand onstage throughout Bad Bunny’s performance.

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Pistahan — a Filipino cultural festival — kicks off with a parade on Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday.

📹: Alyona Uvarova

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The annual World Dog Surfing Competition welcomed dogs of all sizes to Linda Mar Beach on Saturday. Twenty canines in life vests participated in the championship, showing off their unique skills to the delight of spectators.

📹: Alyona Uvarova / The Chronicle

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Organizers of the “No Pride in Genocide” march accused Pride Parade organizers of accepting sponsorship from companies, including Amazon, that are “actively involved in the genocide of the people of Gaza,” according to a release ahead of the march.

📽️: Alyona Uvarova

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Covering S.F. Pride Parade on the ground for @sfchronicle

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Members of Free Mom Hugs embrace audience members along Market Street. 🎥: Alyona Uvarova

More from the S.F. Pride Parade: https://t.co/Dy0TNPWYbl

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“Sokolov’s case comes two days after a Moscow court sentenced Oleg Orlov…to two years in prison over ‘repeatedly discrediting’ the Russian military.”

Honors student @alenkacc on the front page of @nypost!

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@PlankySmith Hi! I’m a video producer at @CampaignLiveUS, a business news publication. We’re working on a YouTube explainer series on AI in marketing and looking for use cases of MidJourney in art w/ public figures. I’m wondering if we have your permission to feature this art with credit?

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@godblesstot I'd love to use your work from 06/11/23 (and credit you, of course) if I have your permission 👀 https://t.co/3LkUFIBdSb

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Looking for AI-generated portraits of Donald Trump (preferably, his arrest) to feature in YouTube explainer series! Lmk if you created some and want to be featured #aiart #midjourney #deepfakes

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@szabcsee Hi! I’m a video producer at the business news publication Campaign US. We’re working on a YouTube explainer series on AI in marketing and looking for use cases of MidJourney in art w/ public figures. I’m wondering if we have your permission to feature this art with credit?