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Facebook Turns 20: Where Are Its Five Founders Now?

Exactly 20 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg and his four Harvard classmates and roommates—Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes—launched thefacebook.com, a website where...

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Elon Musk Launched His Red Tesla Roadster Into Space 6 Years Ago—Where Is It...

On Feb. 6, 2018, SpaceX launched the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, a booster used for deep space missions, with a special payload on board: a cherry red 2008 Tesla Roadster owned by Elon...

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Walmart Is Eyeing The Streaming Business With a Potential $2 Billion Acquisition

Walmart may be making its foray into the streaming and connected TV business. The retail giant is in talks to acquire smart TV maker Vizio in a deal worth more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal...

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Meta’s A.I. Chief Yann LeCun Explains Why a House Cat Is Smarter Than The...

Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief A.I. scientist and known in his field as one of the “godfathers” of deep learning, believes the widespread fear that powerful A.I. models are dangerous is largely imaginary,...

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A Look Inside Space Perspective’s Space Balloon Factory: CEO Interview

It has been nearly three years since Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos flew into space in spaceships built by their respective companies and the billionaire space race dominated news headlines. While...

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Bill Ackman Reveals His Stock Picking Secret in Lex Fridman Podcast

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman had a fruitful 2023 without doing much to his investment portfolio. With an gain of $610 million, or a return rate of 26.7 percent, the founder of the Pershing...

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6 Billionaires Who Recommend Reading Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letter...

Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders is a must-read in business highly recommended by investors and entrepreneurs. The 93-year-old “Oracle of Omaha” published his 2023...

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Jeff Bezos Reclaims ‘World’s Richest Man’ Title After Elon Musk Loses $31B in...

Jeff Bezos is once again the world’s richest person after losing the title to Elon Musk more than three years ago. As of today (March 5), the Amazon founder boasts a net worth of $200 billion,...

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SpaceX Sets Target Date For Starship’s 3rd Orbital Test—With a New Flight Path

SpaceX has set a target date for its third orbital test flight with Starship, the company’s massive Mars-colonizing rocket. The Elon Musk-led rocket company said yesterday (March 6) it’s aiming March...

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Head of Facebook Tom Alison Shares Meta’s Big Plan With Its Stockpile of A.I....

Meta is in the final phase of rebuilding its A.I. recommendation models as part of the company’s “tech roadmap that goes to 2026,” meaning that a series of generative A.I. features are about to come...

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AMD CEO Lisa Su Talks the Invisible Role of A.I. Chips in Oscar-Winning Films

The A.I. hype in the past year and half has made obscure semiconductor makers like AMD and Nvidia household names. AMD, short for Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is best known as a chip supplier to Big...

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House Passes Bill That Could Ban TikTok in US—Here’s What May Happen Next

The U.S. House of Representatives today (March 13) approved legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S.—unless the app finds a way to cut ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. If becoming...

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Starship Reaches New Heights in 3rd Orbital Test On SpaceX’s 22nd Birthday:...

SpaceX today (March 14) launched the third orbital test flight of Starship from the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. A prototype Starship upper stage and a Super Heavy rocket booster...

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Michael Dell Shares His First Lesson of the ‘Dell Direct Model’ When He Was 16

Dell, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of personal computers, is known for inventing and pioneering the “Dell Direct Model,” which fueled its astronomical growth from a dorm-room startup to a...

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Goldman Sachs’s Top Woman Banker Stephanie Cohen Is Leaving After 25 Years

Stephanie Cohen, one of the few female top executives at Goldman Sachs, is leaving the investment bank after a 25-year career in banking, The Wall Street Journal first reported today (March 18). She...

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Tracking 2024’s Largest IPOs: Reddit, Shein, Panera Bread and More

Despite a slow last couple of years, the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) is expected to recover in 2024. In the past two years, rising inflation and high interest rates led to high funding...

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MrBeast Lives in a Zero-Bedroom Apartment to be Close to Work: Take a Look...

Jimmy Donaldson, best known as MrBeast on YouTube, is running his growing media business like Elon Musk is running his tech empire—by living as close to work as possible and modestly. The superstar...

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Why Unicorn A.I. Startups Are Suddenly Dying

Last week (March 19), Microsoft announced it had hired Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of Google’s A.I. lab DeepMind, to lead the development of consumer A.I. products under a newly formed division...

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Mary Barra Is Still Committed to General Motors’ EV Push Amid Industry...

While electric vehicle makers scramble to deal with a sector-wide downturn this year, General Motors CEO Mary Barra remains fully committed to the auto giant’s $20 billion EV push. “We will be selling...

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Elon Musk Says He Will Boost Pay For Tesla A.I. Engineers Amid ‘Craziest...

Tesla is currently going through a down cycle in business, but CEO Elon Musk said he’s going to increase compensation for the electric carmaker’s artificial intelligence engineers amid what he calls...

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