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- Dan Morehead assembled his Princeton mafia to pile into Bitcoin at $65 in 2013, leaving his Wall Street career behind to build a $4 billion crypto fund
Inside the rise of Pantera Capital, from borrowing office space at Fortress to growing into one of the largest blockchain venture firms.
- Tesla’s poor stock performance has slashed Elon Musk’s wealth by $80 billion—another tumble like that could dethrone the world’s richest man
If the Tesla billionaire’s wealth drops by another $60 billion, he will lose his crown as the richest person on the planet to Oracle’s Larry Ellison.
- Don Jr. And Eric Trump Back New SPAC Targeting American Manufacturing—Here’s How These Deals Have Worked In The Past
New America Acquisition Corp I said it planned to raise $300 million.
- Inside Chris Pratt And Katherine Schwarzenegger’s $20 Million Pacific Palisades Marvel
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger’s Pacific Palisades home is an A-list hideaway: gated entry, screening room, gym and spa, pool, wine cellar, ocean views.
- Vietnam’s Vinfast tries to break into the Indian car market with a $500 million EV factory
Vinfast's new Tamil Nadu plant will initially make 50,000 EVs annually, and the company hopes it will be a hub for future exports to the region.
Technology
- Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility
Officials say there are no leaks and hazardous nests are from legacy contamination.
- These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document, or editing a database. Initial reviews for these agents have been mixed at best, though, because they struggle to interact with all the different components of our digital lives. Part of the…
- Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health
Idaho charts a new path as trust in public health craters.
- The Download: fixing ‘evil’ AI, and the White House’s war on science
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run Large language models have recently acquired a reputation for behaving badly. In April, ChatGPT suddenly became an aggressive…
- These are the best streaming services you aren’t watching
Discover movies and shows you've never seen before.
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