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It feels like short video clips of podcasts, songs, and movies are suddenly all over social media right now, and that’s no coincidence. Brands are finding this format to be a very cost-effective way to market their products. Brands and marketing agencies often outsource to independent creators the process of finding the most engaging 30 to 90 seconds of a video, known as “clipping.” But managing these gig workers and determining exactly where to distribute their videos poses major operational challenges. Clouded, a 2024 startup powered by a16z’s Speedrun accelerator, is building an infrastructure that automatically handles both the delivery…
US President Donald Trump has raised the possibility of meeting with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-toku, an unprecedented move by a US leader and a significant departure from diplomatic norms. The presidents of the United States and Taiwan have not spoken directly since 1979, when the United States moved diplomatic recognition from Taipei to China. “I’m going to talk to him,” Trump told reporters Wednesday at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, when asked if he would call Rai before deciding whether to agree to a major arms sale to the island approved by Congress. “I’m talking to you all, we’re very aware…
Defending champion OKC dominated Wenbanyama, winning 122-113, with Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 30 points and dishing out nine assists.Published May 21, 2026May 21, 2026Shai Gilgeous-Alexander tied the Oklahoma City Thunder with the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals as the defending NBA champions won the second heavyweight showdown 122-113.Although he was largely subdued in the Game 1 loss to the Spurs, the back-to-back league Most Valuable Player had 30 points and nine assists to help tie the series on Wednesday.The Thunder’s home win moves the series to 1-1, with both teams next heading to Games 3 and 4 in San…
Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb Inc., at the Airbnb Annual Product Event in San Francisco, USA, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesairbnb CEO Brian Chesky says the rental platform is Amazon The company is adding hotels and new services as it aims to become the be-all-end-all app for travelers.CEO Brian Chesky told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin: “At some point, we’re going to have dozens, maybe hundreds of categories, like Amazon.” “I think we can at least build a little bit of an Amazon with services for travel and life.”Airbnb on Wednesday added independent…
The Wall Street Journal reported that Anthropic told investors that its revenue more than doubled to about $10.9 billion in the second quarter, marking its first operating profit. This is a major milestone and rapid quarter-over-quarter growth that puts the company in a favorable position compared to its main competitor, OpenAI. However, WSJ reports that it will incur huge computing costs and may not be profitable for the entire year. These financial information were recently shared with the company’s investors as part of a funding round. The startup has grown in popularity over the past year as more professionals prefer…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon MuskManuel Orbegoso | Chip Somodevilla | ReutersIf SpaceX eventually goes public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SPCX, it will almost certainly set a record for the largest stock in history. Not far away. Elon Musk’s reusable rocket maker filed its long-awaited IPO prospectus on Wednesday. The company has not disclosed how much it plans to raise, but it is reportedly aiming to raise about $75 billion. That’s more than three times the size of the largest U.S. IPO ever. alibabamade a $22 billion offer in 2014. The next…
How do they choose castaways?Tens of thousands of people apply to appear on the show, and casting producers end up hiring a combination of many Survivor enthusiasts and people who often end up as models or actors. Still, recruited players must go through a complete casting process. “Believe it or not, we get a lot of applications from the same people every year,” former casting director Lynn Spielman, who worked on the show from its inception until 2018, told Reality Wanted. Presenter Jeff Probst is currently in charge of casting. “Typically, it goes something like this,” he outlined to Entertainment…
Chip stocks’ recent stumbles have given short sellers, who have spent much of the past year at the mercy of an artificial intelligence-driven bull market, reason to hang on to their bearish bets. Despite a pullback across semiconductor stocks in recent trading, traders betting on some of the industry’s biggest companies are showing little sign of backing down. Instead, short interest in stocks like Micron and Qualcomm remains near multi-year highs, suggesting that some investors see the downturn as the beginning of a more meaningful crack in one of Wall Street’s hottest trades. This positioning is especially notable with investors…
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the greatest corporate hype men of all time when it comes to his own company. He may even surpass Salesforce’s Marc Benioff when it comes to unrelenting optimism about the company’s future and profits. Still, he delivers on the hype every quarter. Instead of warning you to view with skepticism his declaration that he found “$200 billion in new TAM for NVIDIA,” I would argue that he has earned some credibility. Huang pinned this huge new market on the back of Nvidia’s new CPU product, Vera, announced in March. On…
Dario Amodei speaks on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Oscar Molina CNBCAnthropic is expected to generate $10.9 billion in revenue in the second quarter, CNBC confirmed Wednesday, a number that would exceed the company’s sales for all of last year. If Anthropic achieves this goal, it will mark its first quarterly profit, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the details are private. Anthropic had revenue of $4.8 billion in the first quarter, the person said, meaning sales more than doubled in a matter…