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Instacart CEO Fiji Simo speaks in an interview on Bloomberg Studio 1.0 on Thursday, March 3, 2022 in San Francisco, California.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFiji Simo, OpenAI’s head of product and business, announced Thursday that he is stepping down from his role at the artificial intelligence company to focus on recovering from a “severe exacerbation of a chronic disease.”Simo was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) in 2019 and said she spends “countless hours in the doctor’s office, dealing with symptoms, treatments, insurance, anxiety, and all the invisible tasks that come with being a patient.”She retired…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in pre-market trading: AstraZeneca — The biopharmaceutical company fell 8% after its heart disease drug Wainua missed targets in late-stage clinical trials. PepsiCo — The snack and beverage giant reported mixed second-quarter results. PepsiCo’s adjusted earnings per share were $2.20, below the $2.21 per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. Revenue was $24.18 billion, beating the consensus estimate of $23.95 billion. The stock price fell 1%. Salesforce — Shares fell 4% after KeyBanc downgraded its sector weight from overweight. The company said it was difficult to find evidence of future increases…
Via Bloomberg There’s something almost too perfect about this. Lyzr, a three-year-old Jersey City, New Jersey startup that helps companies build AI agents, has raised funding with its own AI agent. The system, called SivaClaw, reportedly answered questions from more than 130 investors, created investment notes, and even tracked which slides supporters were stuck on. This essentially executed the startup’s $100 million Series B (approximately $500 million valuation) while simultaneously proving that the product actually works. It’s hard to imagine a more straightforward sales pitch. But the most important detail, according to Bloomberg’s retelling, is how little work was done.…
Lee este artículo en español Mexico is seeking a criminal investigation from the United States in connection with the deaths of 17 Mexicans in immigration operations during President Donald Trump’s second term. Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco announced Thursday: “We will go beyond diplomacy and go directly to the U.S. prosecutor’s office to complain about these events and request a criminal investigation into what happened.” Of the 17 Mexican immigrants who died, 14 were in ICE custody and three died in operations conducted by ICE, Velasco said. Mexico also plans to send cease-and-desist letters to private companies that run U.S.…
The story of how Jelly Rolly and Bunnie Xo metBunny Zoe and Jelly Roll’s love story began in Las Vegas.As she recalled on Bussin’ With The Boys, she met the singer when they performed at a country saloon in Las Vegas in August 2015. This was before jelly rolls became famous. At the time, he was living in a van and estimated about 20 people came to the show.Instead, their spark took center stage.”When I met him, I tell people this is the craziest cliché, but literally my soul was like, ‘I’m there,'” Bunny said on a 2023 podcast. “And…
France defeated Morocco 2-0 in the quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and will next face either Spain or Belgium.Published July 9, 2026July 9, 2026France defeated Morocco 2-0 with goals from Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembele to book their place in the World Cup semi-finals.Mbappe scored his eighth goal of the competition in the 60th minute on Thursday, before Dembele doubled Les Bleus’ lead six minutes later to seal a clinical win at Gillette Stadium on the outskirts of Boston.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listWith the win, the 2018 champions will advance to a best-of-four showdown with…
POWER POINTWhat I’m hearing from energy insidersFirst and foremost, I hope that everybody had a wonderful 4th of July holiday and celebrated the 250th birthday of this amazing nation. As the celebrations ended and this week began, we seemed to be on a path to the Iran conflict winding down and the Strait of Hormuz being fully opened. But then Iran shot at a Qatari tanker, the U.S. retaliated and Trump said at the NATO Summit that the ceasefire was off.Despite this news, oil prices remained relatively muted. WTI crude moved back above $75 per barrel at one point, but that’s…
OpenAI announced its latest model family on Thursday, introducing a powerful new set of programs to the increasingly crowded field of AI products. GPT-5.6 comes in three versions: Sol (considered the flagship), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (a budget-friendly option). These models expand what users can do in a variety of fields and promise powerful capabilities in corporate work, coding, and even scientific research. CEO Sam Altman promises that his company’s latest model is orders of magnitude more efficient and cost-effective than previous versions, recently telling CNBC that Sol is 54% more token efficient when it comes to…
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a discussion on “Perspectives on Monetary Policy” at the Thomas Laubach Research Conference on May 19, 2023, at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, DC.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesAnthropic announced Thursday that it has appointed former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to the long-term benefit trust, the company’s independent governing body that advises the company and appoints board members.Bernanke succeeded the late Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to 2014. Shortly after taking office, when the financial crisis hit in 2008, he found himself in…