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Tilt, a live shopping auction app that says it uses AI to make selling online faster and easier, has raised $26 million in funding.The London-based startup, founded in 2021 by ex-Revolut employees Abhi Thanendran and Neil Shah, has raised $50 million to date.Buyers select a category on the app —…
Brooke Shields, 61, says the key to her decadeslong career in Hollywood is knowing when to pivot.”I think what I fought for the whole time is a diverse type of creative career,” Shields said during an appearance on Monday’s episode of “The Bossticks” podcast.When one part of her career cooled…
The race to IPO is on: Anthropic just filed its confidential S-1 draft.On Monday morning, the AI juggernaut announced it had turned in its first IPO proposal to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It’s a major step in the rush toward a public listing, as Anthropic and rival OpenAI…
While people seemed to enjoy themselves, many communal decks looked and felt like crowded malls.With a whopping three large pools and several plunge and whirlpools on the outdoor decks, I was surprised to find that these spaces were crowded throughout the day. And even though there were rules against saving…
Nico Laqua said he’d rather shave years off his life than see his startup fail.He cofounded Corgi, an AI insurance company, in 2024. Corgi became a unicorn in May, raising its Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation — before raising a Series B1 round at a $2.6 billion valuation…
After my somewhat thin steak at Texas Roadhouse, I was shocked to see Outback’s take on a 6-ounce sirloin. Thick and juicy, it looked higher quality than its price tag suggested. This steak was undeniably more tender than the one I got at Texas Roadhouse.When it came to seasoning, however,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is backing a stealthy physical AI startup run by former Tesla and Meta employees, in the latest sign that investors are rushing into robotics.The startup, called Alfred, is also being funded by Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Chapter One, and others, according to internal documents reviewed by…
Silicon Valley spent the last few years teaching AI to talk. Now it wants to give AI a body to lift, sort, build, and eventually live alongside us.This weekend offered a glimpse of how quickly the biggest AI players are moving in on humanoid robotics. At Nvidia GTC Taipei, the…
Amazon’s investment in Anthropic has become one of the most lucrative bets in the cloud giant’s history.Amazon’s original $8 billion investment in the AI startup has swelled into a stake worth roughly $74 billion on paper as Anthropic’s valuation has soared, according to a quarterly filing from late April.In the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the AI industry’s fiercest rivalry isn’t about who reaches Wall Street first.Hours after rival AI startup Anthropic revealed it had confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering, Altman downplayed the idea that the sector’s biggest players are in competition over their anticipated IPOs.”I think…
