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Entertainment
Disgraced 49ers owner Jed York comes out of hiding at NFL owners meetings
NEW YORK – Jed York wasted no time returning to NFL business. On the first day he was eligible to resume his duties following a six-game suspension, the 49ers’...
Team Messaging App Zenzap Raises $44M to Rival WhatsApp
Zenzap has raised $44 million to build a private, AI-enabled work messenger that aims to replace WhatsApp for team communication, TechCrunch reported on October 14. Bessemer, Lightspeed, and The...
Christina Applegate Reveals MS Misdiagnosis: “I Am Back At Square One”
Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis back in 2021 and has become a leading advocate for people coping with the disease, revealed shocking news Tuesday: She was...
Ramp Valuation Hits $60B: Growth Lessons for Founders
Corporate card startup Ramp is reportedly valuing itself at about $60 billion after a round of roughly $1.85 billion, The Next Web reported while citing Bloomberg. Dragoneer and Thrive...
Entrepreneurship
Team Messaging App Zenzap Raises $44M to Rival WhatsApp
Entrepreneurship
Ramp Valuation Hits $60B: Growth Lessons for Founders
Entrepreneurship
Mass Arbitration Startup Chariot Claims Raises $10M Series A
Entrepreneurship
FTC Investigation Targets OpenAI and Anthropic: Founder Checklist
Entrepreneurship
CEO Fraud Goes AI: What a Voice-Clone Bank Heist Teaches
Fashion
Here’s what we know about the man who allegedly bugged an OpenAI conference room in San Francisco
Build a continuous audio recorder. Develop speech-triggered recording. Add Wi-Fi connectivity. Encrypt memory card.These are some of the prompts an engineer arrested by federal authorities last week is accused...
Discovery+ now costs up to $11.99 a month as Skydance takes over
Exactly a week after the new Skydance corporation — the product of the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger — was officially formed, Hollywood’s newest media giant is already raising streaming...
‘Human vs. Robot’ cage match was a hit. State says event was illegal, but organizers aren’t concerned
A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco.The humans behind that fight could face a battle of their...
Nicolas Cage says he won’t work with Amazon again over AI dispute
Nicolas Cage is making it clear — he’s not an “AI-friendly actor.” The 62-year-old actor spoke out against a tech giant during an appearance at New York Comic Con...
Gossip
Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton Call for A.I. Safeguards. Enterprise Buyers Can Help Enforce Them.
Yoshua Bengio was among 400 scientists who signed an open letter calling for international A.I. safety standards. That level of coordination will take time, but major banks, health systems...
72 Hours of Art in Cincinnati
Seen in the abstract, Cincinnati sprawls. In reality, the city's downtown is very walkable, and even the sights farther out from the city center are a relatively short drive...
For Sarah Zapata, Weaving Is a Radical Act
Installation view: Sarah Zapata’s “In escape from the vices of idleness” at Sargent Daughter’s. Photo: NICHOLAS KNIGHT Two sharply opposing threads run through many of New York’s September shows....
L.A.’s Top October Restaurant Openings, From Pasta Bars to Smash Burgers
With the official onset of fall—and the approaching El Niño storm season—eight new restaurants are hoping to keep Angelenos dining out, rain or shine. Some are familiar faces, while...
Health
Fans React as Megyn Kelly Revives Book Excerpt Amid Nancy Guthrie Disappearance
Fans are speaking out after Megyn Kelly revisited a childhood story from Savannah Guthrie's book while Savannah's mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing.In a February 17 Instagram clip from "The...
Bayer Expands Litigation Liability With New $7.25B Roundup Proposal
Bayer said Tuesday that its Monsanto unit has proposed a new $7.25 billion settlement to resolve US lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma, expanding the company's total...
The $8.8 Trillion Problem AI Can’t Solve: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Corporate AI spending topped $252 billion in 2024. Yet 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return on investment. The technology works. The people don't.What's missing? It's emotional...
GOP Rep. Warns Cuban Regime Not To ‘Continue Defying’ Trump: ‘Will Annihilate You In a Matter Of Seconds’
Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez warned the Cuban regime not to "continue defying" the Trump administration because it "won't last long" if they get on its "bad side.""The Cuban regime...
Innovation
Google Changes EU Spam Policy to Avert Antitrust Fine
Google is loosening one of its search spam rules in Europe, giving publishers a little breathing room while easing some of the heat from its antitrust fight with EU...
French Publishers Challenge Google AI Search Over Content Licensing – TechRepublic
French publishers have escalated their dispute with Google over AI search, asking France’s competition watchdog to decide whether AI Overviews and AI Mode require separate licensing negotiations. The Alliance...
OnePlus 16 May Skip the US and Europe: What Buyers Need to Know
OnePlus may be preparing its next flagship phone. But for many buyers, the biggest question isn’t what’s inside it. It’s whether they’ll be able to buy it through official...
ColorOS Replacing OxygenOS on OnePlus Phones: What Users Lose
Eligible existing OnePlus phones will be offered an optional upgrade from OxygenOS to ColorOS 17. Android Authority reported that the transition is expected after the official release of ColorOS...
News
Taobao deepens Singapore presence with US$14.9 million marketing push
[HONG KONG] Chinese e-commerce giant Taobao is ramping up its presence in Singapore amid fierce market competition. It has boosted its Singles’ Day marketing spend in the Republic by...
Australia central banker sees signs of labour market easing
Published Mon, Oct 19, 2026 · 03:15 PM[SYDNEY] A senior Australian central banker flagged on Monday (Oct 19) signs that the labour market was loosening faster than expected, but...
Cracks emerge in AI borrowing boom as CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank debt worries grow
Another worry: the increasing number of data centres that are being delayed by permitting issuesTRILLIONS of dollars in borrowed money have powered the artificial intelligence boom. But now there...
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill to lawmakers
Published Sat, Oct 17, 2026 · 03:50 PM[SAN FRANCISCO] Anthropic has presented its own draft bill to US lawmakers with a plan for regulating artificial intelligence safety and security,...
Politics
Disgraced 49ers owner Jed York comes out of hiding at NFL owners meetings
NEW YORK – Jed York wasted no time returning to NFL business. On the first day he was eligible to resume his duties following a six-game suspension, the 49ers’...
NYC prosecutors slam ex-DOB commish Eric Ulrich as a ‘compromised politician’ who’d do anything for cash as trial kicks off
Ex-New York City Buildings Commisher Eric Ulrich was a “compromised politician” so desperate for cash that he accepted bribes — including $10,000 Mets season tickets — so his inner...
Rams’ kicking curse strikes again as new kicker Blake Grupe gets hurt
At this point, somebody might want to check whether the Los Angeles Rams’ special teams unit was built on an ancient burial ground. Because whatever curse has been haunting...
Exclusive | Abdul El-Sayed remains close to terror-linked mother despite best efforts to hide her from campaign
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has carefully curated a family narrative for the campaign trail that erases his terror group-linked birth mother for his white stepmom — even...
Special Edition
Christina Applegate Reveals MS Misdiagnosis: “I Am Back At Square One”
Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis back in 2021 and has become a leading advocate for people coping with the disease, revealed shocking news Tuesday: She was...
MTV Worker Feared Being “Seen As Trouble” After Russell Brand Incident
Editor’s note: This story contains details of alleged sexual offenses that some readers may find distressing. A former MTV employee has said she didn’t initially report her allegation of...
‘Star Wars’ Headed To Super Bowl LXI For Animated Altcast On Disney+, Disney Channel and Disney XD
Characters from “A Galaxy Far, Far Away” are headed to Super Bowl LXI as ESPN, Lucasfilm and the NFL team up for a Star Wars alternative telecast. On Sunday, February 14,...
Ex-UTA Agent Dante DeSario Launches Collage, A Management Firm For AI-Native Production
Former UTA film agent Dante DeSario has launched Collage, a management company devoted to AI-native production. The new firm has closed a seed funding round, with Black Bear and...
Trending Today
DOJ Admits List of Noncitizen Voters Is Faulty as It Begins Arrests
Eleven people with lawful permanent resident status were arrested in California Monday for alleged voter fraud. Hours later, First Assistant Attorney for California Bill Essayli admitted that they may...
Democrats: Embrace Incivility!
In recent weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to observe two competing visions for Democratic senators should they retake the upper chamber in next month’s midterm elections. On the one...
JD Vance’s Biggest Problem
What do you do when a stranger says “I love you”? Vice President JD Vance, who doesn’t get much affection on the campaign trail, seemed momentarily flummoxed when a...
Trump Fires His Fake Lawyer Press Secretary After Just Five Days
“Look the bottom line is, it’s not very newsworthy that the liberal media badgers a conservative politician. What was newsworthy is that I actually pushed back against it,” Harris...
