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Saudi-funded rebel golf tour LIV has revealed it owes Rick Shiels, the sport’s biggest social media star, more than $1 million.LIV Golf attracted some of golf’s top stars by offering huge paychecks when it launched in 2022. On Tuesday, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.On its list of current…
OpenAI wants to sell large enterprises on its technology. Now, it’s taking its case to law firms.The ChatGPT maker is planning to launch new integrations with third-party legal software companies, according to people familiar with the matter.An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment.The company has been in talks with multiple legal…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Abhinav Bohra, a senior applied scientist at Amazon. He’s in his 30s and lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.For most of my career, everything I built lived and died inside Amazon.I joined Amazon in 2019…
Jensen Huang's Nvidia ranks among SpaceX's largest shareholders.Philip FONG / AFP via Getty ImagesSeveral of SpaceX’s biggest investors have made themselves known.The biggest backers of Elon Musk’s company include Alphabet, Nvidia, and Saudi Arabia.Companies tied to Peter Thiel and Ron Baron are also on the list.Some of SpaceX’s biggest shareholders…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Myung-hee Na, an engineer with more than two decades of experience in the semiconductor industry who leads technology research at Intel Foundry. At Intel, she focuses on developing next-generation technology in semiconductor chips. The conversation has been edited for length and…
Lottery jackpots continue to climb to staggering heights, with the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now sitting at an estimated $707 million.Although billion-dollar prizes remain rare, they’ve become far more common over the past decade.The Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot of $1.817 billion was the second-largest lottery prize in US history,…
For the first time in the four-decade fight against HIV, there is a “miracle” drug that can all but eliminate the risk of infection, but in the Latin American countries where it was tested, most people can’t afford it.Trials show that lenacapavir, made by Gilead Sciences, is almost 100% effective…
Microsoft’s latest earnings were as much about reassurance as results.In a memo to employees after the company reported quarterly earnings, CFO Amy Hood pointed to Azure’s growth and Copilot’s momentum as evidence that Microsoft’s biggest AI bets are paying off, even as the company spends tens of billions of dollars…
Google’s latest earnings call offered a familiar message: AI is driving growth, and it’s also getting more expensive.On Wednesday, Alphabet reported second-quarter revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% from a year earlier, while Google Cloud posted another blockbuster quarter as enterprises raced to adopt AI. At the same time, executives…
Chances are, you’ve heard of Hyrox. If not, it may only be a matter of time.Hyrox, a group fitness competition, has ballooned in popularity. The race combines 1-kilometer running stints with functional fitness stations like sled pushes and pulls, burpees, and farmer’s carries, all set to a party atmosphere that…
