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Ed Sheeran’s Macklemore mess has rocked his public image. PR pros say fans will be more forgiving than you think.
The last time Ed Sheeran played Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field three years ago, he drew a record-breaking crowd of almost 78,000 fans. When he returned there on Saturday to perform his chart-topping hits, he opened with a speech that felt more suited for an apology tour than a victory lap…
A stranger yelled at my child to stop crying. After standing up for my daughter, I stopped being so hard on myself.
Several years ago, while on vacation in Colorado, we decided to visit a national park to take in the area’s natural sights. My daughter loved being helped to climb up a small rocky outcrop for a better view of the miles of pine tree-covered mountains. She still talks about the time that she…
How Meta is using the Threads playbook to boost Muse
Three years ago, Meta launched Threads as a Twitter alternative, staffed with a bare-bones team. Now the company says its text-based social network has 500 million users — more than Twitter ever reported when it was a public company (In 2024, Elon Musk claimed his rebrand of the service had brought…
Alexandr Wang isn’t a style icon. He’s just a Gen Z boy.
The tech guy uniform is full of basic T-shirts and bad haircuts, so I get why Alexandr Wang’s look at Meta Connect is riling Silicon Valley. If you’re used to the black turtlenecks of Steve Jobs and Elizabeth Holmes, or the white T-shirts of Mark Zuckerberg, sure, Wang’s camo-print deer T-shirt and…
These days, Halloween starts in summer. AI helps get coveted candy and costumes on shelves faster.
Fall has just begun, but for companies in the Halloween candy and costume business, spooky season kicked off this summer. At Mars — the maker of candies like M&Ms, Twix, and Skittles — they’ve found that consumers want to maximize their Halloween festivities, Ramesh Kollepara, the SVP and global…
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review, sources say.
The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new artificial intelligence models with the UK government’s testing agency until the models have gone through testing with the US government, POLITICO reported, citing a person familiar with the matter and a senior US administration…
Oracle’s ‘force majeure’ notice raises questions about the company’s ability to deliver on AI data centers
Oracle’s move to protect itself against a potential delay for its flagship AI data center project has Wall Street questioning whether the company can deliver the capacity needed to support its AI business. Bloomberg reported Thursday that Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl Capital…
Internal docs show how David Ellison wants Paramount+ to transform as his WBD mega-deal draws near
Paramount+ is bulking up before its marriage with HBO Max. Paramount Skydance is preparing to launch new streaming features designed to drive engagement and increase revenue from viewers as it finalizes its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal will give Paramount control of…
She left Bank of America to start a fragrance brand with $300. Last year, it made $21 million.
Back in 2018, Maekaeda Gibbons was a loan officer at Bank of America, spending her days evaluating other people’s finances. She had a problem: an expensive taste in perfume that didn’t match a loan officer’s salary. So she started experimenting with her own versions of pricier scents, with no real…
Silicon Valley’s new fashion icon: Alexandr Wang and his camo t-shirt
Move over Alexander Wang — it’s Alexandr Wang (with only one “e”) whose fashion choices are generating buzz online. The Meta exec, fresh off the runaway popularity of the Muse AI agent, is the guy Mark Zuckerberg effectively spent $15 billion to hire last year. And he dressed for the occasion…