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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…
I found home in a person before I found it in a place. In January 2017, I met my now-husband — a 6-foot-3 Indo-Fijian man with kind eyes and a deep, soothing voice — on Bumble in Canada.At the time, I was a New Yorker living in Toronto temporarily. I…
Elon Musk’s companies love to work together. Now, we have a bit more insight into how much money is moving between them. Loading audio narration… On Wednesday, SpaceX filed its 277-page S-1, a document that peels back the curtain on the combined space-and-AI company’s spending.The filing showed that SpaceX (and…
Elon Musk’s latest pay package has a distinctly SpaceX twist: To unlock all of it, he’ll have to help build a city on Mars. Loading audio narration… In SpaceX’s long-awaited S-1 filing on Wednesday, the company disclosed that its board approved a grant of 1 billion performance-based restricted shares for…
I’m very easy to influence. So when I started seeing the Adidas Originals Wide Leg Satin Animal Print Pants pop up in almost every one of my mom and fashion groups on Facebook, I knew that they were going to become a thing. Loading audio narration… I have been in…
As I get older, I’m surprised by how viscerally I react to my own reflection. My face distracts me on Zoom calls. I angle the camera just so to sharpen my jawline and soften the “marionette” effect. I understand that aging is not a personal failing, and yet, a familiar…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elaine Yang, a strategic area and infrastructure planner based in Irvine, California, who installed a Samara ADU, short for accessory dwelling unit, in her backyard. Yang, 42, said the decision was not a financial one but was instead a small way…
New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is making good on his campaign promise of taxing the rich. Loading audio narration… On Thursday, Mamdani and New York Governor Kathy Hochul jointly announced a new tax proposal aimed at wealthy people who own second homes in the city.The proposed pied-à-terre tax…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta cleaned laundry rooms to support himself through college and still left Yale Law School with a mountain of debt. Loading audio narration… Bonta says he’d do it all again.”I get a lot of questions from young folks who ask me if law school’s worth it,”…
This interview is based on a conversation with Malia Smylie, 38, a nurse/midwife-turned marriage coach from Las Vegas. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… My husband, Jason, 44, and I have four boys, ages 4, 9, 12, and 13.They are rambunctious, but we like to…
