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Entertainment
How Founders Can Scale Sales Without Building a Full In-House Team
Founders are often the strongest salespeople in an early-stage company. Their product knowledge is immediate, and buyers can speak directly with the person who shaped the offer. Trouble begins...
New York Times Moves To Quash Trump DOJ Subpoenas To Its Reporters
The New York Times has filed a motion to quash subpoenas of a group of its journalists after they reported on the lack of security features on the new...
SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
SpaceX stock dropped below its initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.Shares dipped below their IPO price of...
Ofcom Investigating TikTok Over Child Safety Concerns
UK regulator Ofcom is investigating TikTok after raising “serious doubts” about the effectiveness of its ability to identify when a person is under 18. On the same day it...
Paramount Calls Shareholder Suit Vs Ellisons, Board Recycled Allegations, Says No Commitments Made On News Coverage While Pursuing WBD
UPDATE with Paramount statement: Paramount is pushing back on a recently filed shareholder lawsuit, saying it “recycles allegations that have already been reported and already addressed.” “As we’ve said...
Entrepreneurship
How Founders Can Scale Sales Without Building a Full In-House Team
Entrepreneurship
AI Tools for Small Business: Pie Raises $23.7M for Main Street
Entrepreneurship
Ollama Raises $65M as Its Open AI Runner Hits 8.9M Users
Entrepreneurship
Direct to Consumer Wins: How Moonkie Built a $38.5M Brand
Entrepreneurship
VC Funding Hits a Record $510B as AI Swallows the Market
Fashion
Nobel Prize winner leaving UC Berkeley for new role in China
Nobel Prize recipient Omar Yaghi is leaving his role at UC Berkeley to lead the development of a new artificial intelligence institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Chinese...
Even in the heart of L.A., they still rely on old-fashioned landlines and don’t want to lose them
Living high up in the Hollywood Hills, Peter and Nanci Ellis think of their landline as a lifeline.Most days, cellphone service in their Los Feliz Oaks home near Griffith...
AI actor Tilly Norwood to star in first movie
Controversial AI creation Tilly Norwood will star in her first movie, a comedy drama called “Misaligned.” The AI film portrays Norwood as an artificial intelligence being with “no real...
Bytedance’s TikTok took over social media. Now, its AI is taking over Hollywood
Earlier this year, a widely circulated 15-second AI-generated video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise on a rooftop sparked outrage across Hollywood. One screenwriter called the cinematic clip “terrifying.”...
Gossip
Observer’s 2026 A.I. Power Index: Who Controls the Capital Flow in A.I
Jaakko Kokko AlphaSense CEO Jack Kokko convinced investors this year that the company transforming how Wall Street and enterprise teams conduct research should be worth $7.5 billion, not $4...
The Flood of A.I.-Generated Images Will Make Human-Made Art More Precious, Not Less
Alai Ganuza, Pink bathroom. Copyright and courtesy Alai Ganuza As a full-time painter and educator, I can say with certainty that technology has completely changed the art world. I...
Faig Ahmed Weaves Azerbaijan’s Past Into Its Future in Venice
We noticed you're using an ad blocker. We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience.But advertising revenue helps support our journalism.To read our full...
For Collector Marie-Cécile Zinsou, Building a Museum in Benin Was Just the Beginning
The traveling exhibition “Nago Hunters from the Kingdom of Bante” by Jean-Dominique Burton in 2013. ©Jean-Dominique Burton When art collector and 2025 Yale Directors Forum fellow Marie-Cécile Zinsou first...
An Insider’s Guide to Putney’s Riverfront London Life
Putney is a bend in the Thames where London starts behaving like a system rather than a sprawl—nothing quite settles; instead, everything circulates. Commuters rush off trains and the...
At Ebbio, the Parisian Art Consultancy IDA Offers Artists the Luxury of Unstructured Time
The restored 13th-century farm where IDA hosts its biannual residency. Courtesy IDA IDA, a four-year-old Parisian consulting agency specialized in the development of art acquisitions, exhibitions, custom commissions and...
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
ShinyHunters Claims Council of Europe HR Data, Threatens Leak
ShinyHunters has put the Council of Europe on the clock, claiming it stole 297GB of sensitive data and threatening to publish it unless its demands are met. The cyber...
Amazon’s ‘Proteus’ Robot Heads to Europe in $11B Automation Push
Amazon’s warehouse robots are starting to sound less like machines waiting for commands and more like coworkers taking direction. At its Delivering the Future event in London, Amazon unveiled...
Hilary Duff Admits She Worries Husband Matthew Koma Will Leave Her for an “Indie Songwriter”
Indeed, those inner thoughts are what Hilary—who shares daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 21 months, with Matthew, as well as son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie—sings...
Hailey Bieber Details How Past Stroke and Heart Surgery Forever Changed Her
“I have a whole new breath of life with it,” she explained on the Therapuss podcast. “I feel even more motivated and more passionate. And now that we have...
News
SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
SpaceX stock dropped below its initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.Shares dipped below their IPO price of...
Apple gets approval for iPhone AI in China with Alibaba, Baidu
The approval gives it a boost in the world’s most competitive smartphone marketPublished Wed, Jul 15, 2026 · 10:54 PM[BEIJING] Apple on Wednesday (Jul 15) received long-awaited government approval...
Economists, tech leaders warn AI could bring ‘large-scale job displacement’ and other risks
Many of the smartest people in the world warned governments, companies and people Monday that they need to be ready for the deep impact that artificial intelligence is going...
With AI character Tilly Norwood set for feature-film debut, Hollywood debates what it means to be an actor
For most of Hollywood’s history, the word “actor” has required little explanation. Actors search for emotional truth in imaginary lives. They collaborate with directors and scene partners, endure 4...
Politics
Labor Dept. — and even Silicon Valley — sources agree H-1B visa crackdown is about much more than just fraud
The H-1B investigation into foreigners exploiting worker visas in the US has moved at a rapid pace since Vice President JD Vance announced it last week — with the...
Exclusive | Kelly Bensimon and celebrity chef ‘lucky to be alive’ after terrifying head-on crash in Florida Uber
Kelly Bensimon just got a frightening dose of reality. The star of E!’s “Golden Life” and celebrity chef Andrew Molen were injured Monday afternoon when they were involved in...
After embarassing first half, Giants forced to look at all options ahead of MLB trade deadline
The San Francisco Giants reached the All-Star break with a win, but nobody inside the clubhouse seemed interested in pretending the first 96 games were anything other than a...
Lindsey Graham: The senator, soldier and statesman who never backed down
“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic — the man who actually does the work.” Theodore Roosevelt could have been describing...
Special Edition
New York Times Moves To Quash Trump DOJ Subpoenas To Its Reporters
The New York Times has filed a motion to quash subpoenas of a group of its journalists after they reported on the lack of security features on the new...
Ofcom Investigating TikTok Over Child Safety Concerns
UK regulator Ofcom is investigating TikTok after raising “serious doubts” about the effectiveness of its ability to identify when a person is under 18. On the same day it...
Paramount Calls Shareholder Suit Vs Ellisons, Board Recycled Allegations, Says No Commitments Made On News Coverage While Pursuing WBD
UPDATE with Paramount statement: Paramount is pushing back on a recently filed shareholder lawsuit, saying it “recycles allegations that have already been reported and already addressed.” “As we’ve said...
‘Independent Lens’ Acquires Four Docs: ‘Seeds’, ‘My Omaha,’ & More
EXCLUSIVE: Independent Lens is going on something of an acquisition binge – welcome news for the documentary field. The award-winning PBS series announced it has picked up four films:...
Trending Today
Trump Announces Dangerous Plan to Replace Immigrant Truckers
Trump’s 2025 executive order followed a similar attempt to target the ICC in his first term. That attempt was blocked by a judge in 2020 and formally rescinded under...
Wild New Details Emerge on ICE Agent Involved in Fatal Maine Shooting
The ICE agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian immigrant in Biddeford, Maine, Monday morning had been with the agency for just a few short months.The agent who...
12 Blue States Defy DOJ and Sue to Stop Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and...
Who Should Own the Robots?
In late February, Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI who has since left the organization, posted on X that something had broken in the way software gets made....
