The San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic is in talks to raise a new round of funding that could value the company at $60 billion, up from about $16 billion less than a year ago, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. Led by the venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, the new…
Amazon said on Sunday that its Prime Video streaming service would release a “behind the scenes” documentary about Melania Trump’s life. The film will head to movie theaters and stream on Amazon Prime in the second half of this year, the company said in a statement. Mrs. Trump will be an executive producer of the…
GOLDEN YEARS: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age, by James Chappel “You see these gray hairs?” Dorothy Parker asked in The New Yorker in 1928. “Well, making whoopee with the intelligentsia was the way I earned them.” Parker was 35 when she wrote that. Old age seemed to come on earlier back in the…
Taiwan is investigating whether a ship linked to China is responsible for damaging one of the undersea cables that connects Taiwan to the internet, the latest reminder of how vulnerable Taiwan’s critical infrastructure is to damage from China. The incident comes as anxiety in Europe has risen over apparent acts of sabotage, including ones aimed…
Matteo Rocca and Ronan Dunphy peered into the gloom on the second floor of the 12th-century palazzo in Genoa, Italy. This had once been the grandest part of the seven-story palace, with the highest ceiling, the tallest windows and the most elaborate painted decoration. It was here, on the “piano nobile,” or noble floor, that…
Jan. 6, 2025, 6:35 p.m. ET Dana White, left, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Mark Zuckerberg have bonded over their passion for professional fighting. Credit…Jeff Bottari/Zuffa, via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Monday that Meta had added Dana White, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and two…
Pharmacists have begun prescribing abortion pills, not simply dispensing them — a development intended to broaden abortion access. The new effort is small so far — a pilot program in Washington State — but the idea is expected to be tried in other states where abortion remains legal. “I think it is going to expand,…
In the last few weeks, Bethenny Frankel has been talking a lot about Dior bags on TikTok. The subject itself isn’t unusual: As a reality TV star and entrepreneur, she frequently posts about fashion topics to her 2.4 million followers, including in a feature Ms. Frankel calls “Handbag University,” where she offers reviews and tutorials….
Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps. The reversal of the years-old policy is a stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself…
Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps. The reversal of the years-old policy is a stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself…
