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“Why are you taking my picture?” asked my 22-year-old son as I trailed behind him on a hiking path near our house. The leaves were beginning to change, and I wanted to capture the beauty of the woods and this moment with my adult son.”Because I love you,” I told…
Jim Bankoff spent nearly 20 years building Vox Media. Now he’s selling a big chunk of it to James Murdoch, one of Rupert Murdoch’s sons, who is acquiring Vox’s podcast network — along with New York Magazine and Vox.com for a reported $300 million. Loading audio narration… I’ve talked to…
The best advice in life is often free. Loading audio narration… After spending millions in pursuit of the fountain of youth, tech entrepreneur-turned-longevity-influencer Bryan Johnson shared his top health hacks in an X post on Wednesday.”This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity,” he wrote, before enumerating a list…
YouTube star MrBeast is stepping up his charm offensive with Madison Avenue as his company ramps up efforts to win a larger share of traditional TV ad dollars. Loading audio narration… Beast Industries is hosting a breakfast for top brand and ad executives and creator-economy insiders at Penthouse 45, a…
It only took solo venture capitalist Zal Bilimoria five phone calls to raise his latest $50 million fund. Loading audio narration… The former Andreessen Horowitz partner, who left the firm a decade ago to start VC firm Refactor Capital, said the new fund brings his total assets under management to…
He’s invested in over 600 companies and oversees $72 million in assets. But you won’t find a vibe-coding company in his portfolio of the earliest-stage startups. Loading audio narration… Jussi Salovaara, the cofounder and managing partner at startup accelerator Antler Asia, said he doesn’t see much more room for new…
A Google DeepMind employee said that he was “incredibly ashamed” to be a researcher at the company after it signed a deal with the Pentagon for classified operations. Loading audio narration… “I’m speechless at Google signing a deal to use our AI models for classified tasks. Frankly, it is shameful,”…
Nick Burns was making six figures in the US and still finding it hard to save. Loading audio narration… Burns, now 35, grew up in Connecticut and served in the Navy. It was during that time that he first visited Singapore.Impressed by the country’s clean and fast public transport system,…
The hunt for shares in Anthropic has become so frenzied in recent weeks that a tech banker is offering up his $4.8 million Marin County estate, in exchange for stock. Loading audio narration… “If you’re going fishing, you’ve got to put a worm on the hook,” said Storm Duncan, the…
A startup CEO says its six-figure bill for a single month of AI is a milestone, not a warning sign. Loading audio narration… In a Saturday LinkedIn post, Swan AI CEO Amos Bar-Joseph shared a screenshot of what he said was an Anthropic receipt totaling $113,421.87, writing he had “never…
