A graduate of the prestigious University of Cambridge, he started his career as a strategist with Goldman Sachs before an 11 year stint with Meta, where he worked mostly on machine learning. In October 2023, he quit Meta for OpenAI – the company that revolutionized the AI race with ChatGPT. Just over a year later, he moved from OpenAI to …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🌕 Apollo 17 marked the end of the Space Race with a plaque commemorating the final manned lunar mission’s peaceful intentions. 🚗 SpaceX launched a cherry-red Tesla Roadster into space, showcasing the Falcon Heavy rocket’s capabilities and symbolizing technological innovation. 🌍 The UNESCO Memory Disk project preserves Earth’s linguistic and cultural heritage on the Moon, promoting unity …
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Bitcoin, one of the year’s best performing assets, has fallen sharply, plunging almost 10% as traders brace for a huge price game-changer. Sign up now for CryptoCodex—A free newsletter for the crypto-curious The bitcoin price hit an all-time high of $123,000 per bitcoin in July, riding a wave of optimism stoked by president Donald Trump’s White House, Wall Street giants, …
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Fifteen years ago, Dylan Field was a freshman computer science student at Brown University. On Thursday, the company he started in college and now runs, Figma, made its blockbuster debut on the New York Stock Exchange, marking the largest U.S. venture-capital-backed tech IPO in four years. Figma’s stock surged 250% on its debut, making it the largest first-day pop for …
Read More »Buffett’s Berkshire Takes $3.8 Billion Hit on Kraft Heinz Stake Bloomberg.com Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reports 4% drop in operating earnings in Q2 CNN Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings dip 4% as conglomerate braces for tariff impact CNBC Berkshire Operating Profits Fall 4% in 2nd Quarter. Company Takes Write-Down of Kraft Equity Stake. Barron’s Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Records $5 Billion Write-Down of Kraft Heinz …
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The future ticket counter at JFK’s new Terminal 1. Leslie Josephs/CNBC It’s far from finished but the new, $9.5 billion Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport is taking shape. Its first phase is slated to open in mid-2026. It will replace the current terminal, which opened in 1998. The terminal, which will be JFK’s largest, is now weathertight. …
Read More »Big Tech’s Big Bet on AI Driving $344 Billion in Spend This Year Bloomberg.com Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom? The Economist Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more The Guardian Big tech sees AI investments begin to pay off Axios Silicon Valley’s New Strategy: Move Slow and Build Things – WSJ The …
Read More »Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I’m Gonna Pass. – WSJ The Wall Street Journal A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars. The New York Times Not a single person has accepted the offer: Mira Murati on her team rejecting Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billio The Times of India Meta dishes out $250M to lure 24-year-old …
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The Washington Commanders received a significant boost on Friday toward their dream of returning to the District of Columbia in a new stadium. The D.C. City Council gave initial approval, in a 9-3 vote, to a revised deal for a 65,000-seat stadium, the centerpiece of a $3.8 billion, multi-use development project on and around the old RFK Stadium site on …
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Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple recently announced it has sold over 3 billion iPhone units since its introduction in 2007. The iPhone contributed to almost $44 billion in sales for the April–June quarter of 2025. Apple took just four years to reach this milestone since completing sales of 2 billion units back in 2021. The iPhone is more …
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