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In 2019, South African film director Letabile Ramaphakela was about to make his big break. After more than a decade in the film industry, the comedy writer, producer, and director has secured financing for her first feature film, Seriously Single. “I was really excited because it was supposed to be released in 2020,” says Ramaphakela. “This was supposed to be our big movie release, but then COVID-19 hit and we were stuck.” But like any good comedy, timing is everything. And an even bigger opportunity was just around the corner. “Netflix saw the movie and really liked it,” Ramaphakela says.…
More and more people are turning to AI instead of Google to discover products. This holiday season, Americans are more likely to rely on large-scale language models to find gifts, sales, and deals, rather than traditional search, according to a recent shopping report. According to the report, retailers could see up to 520% more traffic from chatbots and AI prompts in 2025 compared to 2024. For brands, that means finding ways to quickly appear in AI-generated recommendations. This AI-driven traffic surge is the bet behind The Prompting Company, a YC-backed startup that helps products get mentioned within AI apps through…
Summon all monsters: heidi klum Coming to your brand. in advance of project runway At the alum’s signature Halloween party on Oct. 31, she started teasing her latest costume. I’m sure he’s already surpassed her and her husband. Tom Kaulitzmatches last year’s robot ET device. A video shared to Instagram on Oct. 31 shows a close-up of Heidi’s face, already covered in a light layer of green makeup. In addition to painting his skin, his eyebrows are also dyed the same color and he wears a bald hat on his head. And that wasn’t the only hint the 52-year-old had…
The San Francisco-based biotech company’s stock has been on a roll in recent months. Rigel Pharmaceuticalhas approved hematology and oncology treatments as well as potential new drugs in the pipeline.The company’s stock price has risen about 50% in the past three months alone, earning it a spot on CNBC’s list of top performing stocks for City-by-the-Bay-based companies. To find the stocks, CNBC screened regionally based stocks with market capitalizations above $500 million. We then screened the top performers over the past three months via FactSet.”Our business is growing significantly,” CEO Raul Rodriguez said in an interview with CNBC’s Brian Sullivan.…
AI search startup Perplexity has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Getty Images, giving it permission to display Getty images across its AI-powered search and discovery tools. The deal marks a notable change for the company, which has been hit by allegations of content scraping and plagiarism, and signals an effort to establish more formal content partnerships. Perplexity and Getty have been working together for more than a year, a person familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Although it was never announced, Getty was participating in Perplexity’s Publishers Program and planned to share ad revenue with publishers when their content…
Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club hosts a “Morning Meeting” livestream every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET. A recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose on Friday, helped by strength in Big Tech stocks such as the club that owns Amazon. The e-commerce giant released a big earnings report Thursday night, led by growth in its cloud computing division. The stock price is up more than 10%. Friday is also the last trading session of October. Next week, the club names Eaton, DuPont and Texas Roadhouse are scheduled to report quarterly results. 2. Don’t own…
Beijing — As the dust begins to clear over Thursday’s nearly two-hour meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump at an air base in South Korea, it is clear that China’s leadership has racked up another victory in its tough strategy with the United States. The talks did not secure a broad trade deal, but rather a return to an uneasy ceasefire built on several agreements aimed at stabilizing relations as the two countries move toward unity. President Xi has promised to cut by 10% the 30% tariffs that President Trump imposed on new Chinese goods this…
37. We all know the age-old question celebrities are asked: Who is their celebrity crush? Well, it turns out Aniston is the answer for quite a few men in Hollywood. Riverdale’s two male leads, KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse, nursed unrequited love for her. Although Apa never saw an episode of Friends, he admitted to Cosmopolitan that he’s obsessed with Aniston, and Sprouse recalled co-starring with Aniston on the sitcom (he played Ross’ son Ben, along with his twin brother Dylan). “It was really, really hard to work with her because I loved her so much,” he told the New…
A Delta Air Lines plane takes off near the control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia, USA.Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesdelta airlines, united airlines and american airlines Delta Air Lines on Thursday called on Congress to reopen the U.S. government and pay air traffic controllers, with the airline urging senators to “immediately pass a clean continuing resolution.”Air traffic controllers in the United States did not receive their first full paychecks Tuesday as Republican and Democratic senators remain deadlocked and the government shutdown continues into its fourth week with…
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service, is on track to post its strongest growth in three years, driven by the AI industry’s unprecedented demand for computing power. In its third-quarter earnings call Thursday, Amazon said AWS grew 20% year-over-year, ending the quarter with $33.1 billion in revenue for the first nine months of the year. The segment’s operating income increased to $11.4 billion in the third quarter, up from $10.4 billion at the same point in 2024. “AWS is growing at a pace not seen since 2022, reaccelerating to 20.2% year-over-year,” Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy said…