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Jared Leto was raising a $75 million venture fund before recent accusations
Hollywood actor and musician Jared Leto was in the process of raising a new venture capital fund before sexual misconduct allegations catapulted him into the headlines last week, Business Insider has learned. A document reviewed by Business Insider says the “Dallas Buyers Club” and “My So-Called…
Russia is ‘betting primarily’ on jet-powered Shahed drones, pivoting from older models: Ukraine’s navy
Russia has been reducing its usage of conventional long-range attack drones in favor of more advanced, jet-powered ones, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s navy said on Monday. “The Russians are reducing the number of conventional drones they use while effectively increasing the number of jet-powered…
Samantha Morton says Christopher Nolan gave her hope she could keep working at 49
Samantha Morton says landing a role in “The Odyssey” gave her renewed confidence that she could keep working as she gets older. On Monday’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Morton reflected on the box office success of “The Odyssey,” in which she plays the enchantress Circe. The…
Waymo’s CEO say this is why he ignores Silicon Valley’s most famous mantra
AI’s future needs safety, not a catchy 2000s tech slogan, says the co-CEO of Waymo. “In Silicon Valley, there’s a common mantra to ‘move fast and break things,’” Dmitri Dolgov said at a Y Combinator talk released on Monday. “However, when you’re dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things…
He choreographed routines for K-pop stars like BTS and Seventeen. Now he’s building AI for dance.
K-pop’s biggest stars, from BTS to Seventeen, have danced routines that Youngjun Choi choreographed. Now, the top choreographer is betting that AI can help anyone with an idea, a phone, and no dance training to create the next hit K-pop dance. It all started six years ago when Choi met Joon Jung…
‘Great grass’: Trump plugs Scotts Miracle-Gro, a company that he says did the White House a favor
President Donald Trump promoted yet another product this week: “great grass” from the company he said replaced the White House lawn free of charge. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump praised Scotts Miracle-Gro, a public company based in Ohio that sells lawn and garden…
Free tiers are Hollywood’s next big idea in the streaming wars
To free, or not to free? That is the question for paid streamers like Netflix, as free services, and YouTube in particular, attract TV viewers. Hollywood giants Disney and Paramount Skydance are exploring adding free tiers to their subscription services to build audiences, grow advertising revenue…
Jon Gray says impatience about AI returns is ‘a little misplaced’
Good, potentially very lucrative things will come to the AI investors who wait, if you ask Jon Gray. Gray, the president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, said that growing concern about the pace of the AI buildout is somewhat overblown. “I’m not going to discount that there’s not going to…
My husband dreamed of city living — I didn’t. To compromise, we tried living in a high-rise condo downtown for one year.
I thought I would hate living in a high-rise apartment. I grew up in the woods of northern Minnesota, watching deer and the occasional bear wander through the backyard. I’ve spent my adult life in suburban townhomes near large park reserves, a compromise between rural landscapes and the job…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says frontier AI labs think they ‘deserve to colonize your enterprise’
Alex Karp’s crusade against frontier AI labs continues. During Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call on Monday, the CEO and cofounder reiterated his view that leading AI labs could absorb enterprises’ data, intellectual property, and expertise into their models and ultimately use that to compete…