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Dina Powell McCormick, a member of President Donald Trump’s first administration, has resigned. meta board of directors.Powell McCormick, who worked at Goldman Sachs for 16 years, notified Mehta on Friday of his resignation, according to an SEC filing. The filing did not give a reason for McCormick’s resignation from the Meta board, but said her resignation was effective immediately.Mr. Mehta has no plans to change his role on the board, said a person familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to protect confidentiality. Powell McCormick is considering the possibility of taking on a strategic advisory role at Meta, but nothing…
Ace Aguirre noticed something strange after taking two bites of oatmeal on the morning of November 4th. Mud seeps onto the living room floor of a bungalow in Kotkot, a village in Cebu province in the Philippines. The moments that followed will be etched in Aguirre’s memory forever. His living room furniture is floating. For a few scary minutes, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to pry the front door open. My son was praying to God as the water rose up to his chest. The girl, who can’t swim, was perched high on a pillar as water…
Role: WriterSNL appearance period: 1984-1985The story of how Larry David quit his job as a writer on Saturday Night Live will make audiences laugh.”My sketches went really well at read-through, but then they got cut week after week after that,” the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star explained on a 2015 episode of The Howard Stern Show. “Then one night, before the show, another sketch of mine was cut at 11:25, five minutes before the show started. Enough was enough.”So Larry went on to walk up to Dick Ebersol, the executive producer, and say, “This fucking King’s show stinks. It stinks! It…
As the new year approaches, all eyes are on Wall Street to see if the coveted Santa Claus rally will be a success. The so-called rally, a term coined by Stock Traders Almanac founder Yale Hirsch in 1972, occurs between the last five business days of a year and the first two business days of a new year. In this case, that would be from the opening bell on December 24th to the second trading day of 2026, or January 5th. Since 1950, the S&P 500 index has averaged a 1.3% gain over a seven-day trading period, and Almanac editor-in-chief…
Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun admitted Thursday that he has launched a new startup, the worst-kept secret in the tech world, but said he has no intention of running the new company as CEO. His startup is called Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) and has hired Alex LeBrun, co-founder and CEO of medical transcription AI startup Darling Nabla, as its CEO. Mr. Nabla revealed Mr. LeBlanc’s new job in a press release, and Mr. LeCun confirmed it in a short post on LinkedIn. “Yes, AMI Labs is my new startup. I’m the executive chairman. And Alex LeBrun is transitioning from CEO…
Don’t blame Taylor Swift for switching to this Elas Tour look. The singer revealed that debuting the black and gold bodysuit on her Reputation set, which spans more than a year and a half on her Elas tour, wasn’t as calculated as fans initially thought. “The original catsuit was made of a different fabric,” Joseph Cassel, Taylor’s stylist, revealed in episode 3 of the Disney+ documentary series End of an Era, which aired on December 19. “It was the only fabric that existed in the world, so we had to rework the fabric for the second catsuit and this one.”…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on December 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump spoke about lowering prescription drug prices during the event. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesSeveral major U.S. and Europe-based drug companies signed deals with President Donald Trump on Friday to voluntarily sell their drugs at lower prices, as the Trump administration pushes to link domestic drug prices to lower drug prices overseas.For that, Merck, bristol myers squib, amgen, gilead, GSK, sanofiRoche Genentech, Private Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis. In return, the companies agreed to a three-year grace period…
Cursor, an AI coding assistant, announced it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses AI to review and debug code. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Axios reported that Cursor paid “well above” Graphite’s final valuation of $290 million. This valuation was set when the five-year-old company raised $52 million in Series B funding earlier this year. This partnership makes strategic sense. The code output generated by AI is buggy, requiring engineers to spend a lot of time fixing it. While Cursor offers AI-powered code reviews through its Bugbot product, Graphite’s specialized toolset provides a unique feature called…
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the Viva Technology Conference held at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center in Paris on June 16, 2023.Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersElon Musk’s 2018 CEO compensation package is: teslaApproximately $56 billion worth of assets must be restored upon vesting, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled Friday.”We reverse the Court of Commerce’s rescission relief and award $1 in nominal damages,” the justices wrote in their opinion. In a ruling issued Friday, the Delaware Supreme Court justices said the lower court’s decision to cancel Musk’s 2018 pay plan was an extreme remedy and that the lower court…
The police officer hailed as a hero for shooting one of the perpetrators of the Bondi Beach massacre has been identified by Australian media as Senior Constable Cesar Barraza. Video of the tragedy provides a clearer picture of how the anti-Semitic attack that left at least 15 people dead unfolded, and how Barraza, armed only with a handgun, advanced from about 45 meters (150 feet) away to eliminate the attackers, helping to end Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years. Barraza is believed to have shot and killed Sajid Akram, 50, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and CNN…