Sir Steve Redgrave is set to miss the Olympics for the first time in 40 years. Two weeks before Paris, he joins Daley Thompson on a sporting cruise in France. But his media commitments have dried up, and he is no longer coaching rowing
The job cuts continue at Google and Rivian as both companies further trimmed their workforces Wednesday, part of a larger trend of layoffs in the tech industry this year. Google laid off an unspecified number of workers, though the cuts were not company-wide. The company classified them as a reorganization that was part of the normal course of business. Affected employees will be able to apply for internal roles. Google did not confirm or deny a report from Business Insider that teams in...
While buzzy AI startups like OpenAI and Stable Diffusion have caught marketers’ attention, many lesser-known gen AI startups have secured investments and contracts with major brands such as L'Oréal, ESPN, Pepsi, and Garnier. AI funding in the U.S. grew by 14% year-over-year in 2023, (OpenAI released ChatGPT in Nov. 2022), raising $42.5 billion across 2,500 equity rounds, per CB Insights. There is a ballooning number of gen AI startups—Dealroom counts some 1,200—which are solving problems...
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KPMG’s Private Enterprise practice has today launched its annual search for the most exciting tech innovators on offer in the UK in its 2024 tech startup competition. The pitching competition, which has been running since 2013, has uncovered outstanding tech from businesses across the UK including What3Words, VividQ and HiiROC who went on to win […]
Despite companies like Bumble, Eventbrite, 23andMe and Stitch Fix setting an example, female founders still face a glass ceiling.
The government is preparing a framework to help minimise the risk for local pension funds and insurance companies from investment in the startup sector, which has become a major employment generator and contributor to the economy but where business failures are fairly common, officials aware of the matter said.“This is a part of the government’s broader intention to enhance the proportion of domestic capital invested into Indian startups,” one of the officials said.Indian pension funds and...
A Massachusetts police officer was hurt after a Friday afternoon crash at a construction site in Billerica.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - A case of child abuse in Henderson is spotlighting the importance of the work Clark County School District truancy officers do each day. Jeffery Scanlan, 41, and Misty Scanlan, 46, are each facing one charge of child abuse and are accused of locking their 11-year-old boy in a cage, according to []
Prolific actor Owen Wilson has a new gig, and at first glance, it may seem like he’s playing tech entrepreneur Steve Jobs, complete with the trademark black turtleneck and PowerPoint presentation in front of a cheering crowd. “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” Wilson tells a rapt audience in a just-dropped video. In fact, Wilson has landed his first commercial endorsement in the U.S., co-writing and starring in a cheeky ad that borrows...