Mark Zuckerberg says he wants more ‘masculine energy’ at Meta. So why don’t more men use Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg said he thinks Meta needs more “masculine energy” and that the company’s culture has been “neutered” in the past few years. There might be a disconnect between Zuckerberg’s ambitions — which he shared on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week — and the actual social platforms he runs. In the US, more women use…
An employee told me he was quitting to join OpenAI in 2016. I said it was a bad idea. Now he’s an AI billionaire.
Jack Clark, the cofounder of the AI startup Anthropic. In 2016, Jack Clark walked up to me in Bloomberg’s San Francisco newsroom and asked if we could go for a walk. As an editor, it’s often not good when one of your reporters makes a request like this. Sure enough, as we sat on a…
Healthcare AI startup Qventus just raised $105 million from private equity giant KKR. Here’s the 17-slide pitch deck it used.
Mudit Garg, CEO and cofounder of Qventus Healthcare startup Qventus just scored a mega-round of funding for its AI that gets patients ready for the operating room. Qventus has raised $105 million in Series D funding led by private equity giant KKR, the startup announced Monday. Three of Qventus’s health system customers, Northwestern Medicine, HonorHealth,…
Elon Musk buying TikTok seems like a stretch — but we’re in a weird time, so here’s why it could make sense
MuskTok? I mean, on the one hand — why not? We’re already in a world where Mark Zuckerberg is using Donald Trump’s election as a reason to change the way Meta maintains its restrooms. (Seriously.) So why not have Elon Musk swoop in with a deal to buy TikTok from ByteDance, the Chinese company that…
Meta plans to cut 5% of its workforce, focusing on the lowest performers. Read the memo Mark Zuckerberg sent to staff.
Mark Zuckerberg told staff he “decided to raise the bar on performance management.” Meta is planning to cut 5% of staff with a focus on its lowest performers, B-17 has learned. Mark Zuckerberg has told employees he “decided to raise the bar on performance management” and act quickly to “move out low-performers,” according to an…
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk. Days after Meta announced controversial changes to its content-moderation policies, a group of prominent technology leaders and nonprofit executives launched an ambitious $30 million campaign to build a social media ecosystem free from “billionaire control.” The initiative, called Free Our Feeds, aims to create independent infrastructure…
An airline is so sick of drunk, rowdy passengers that it wants to limit alcohol sales in airports
Ryanair says a disruptive passenger cost the airline over $15,000 because of a diversion. Ryanair, the world’s third-largest airline by passengers, is calling on authorities to limit the sale of alcoholic beverages at airports. The Irish airline wants airports to restrict the sale of alcohol in departure areas to two drinks per passenger in a…
Jack Smith’s final report about January 6 is out. Read it here.
The special counsel Jack Smith delivered his final report on January 6, 2021. The special counsel Jack Smith just delivered his final report on the January 6, 2021, insurrection. The 137-page document, sent by the Department of Justice to Congress on January 7 and made public early Tuesday, summarized years of Smith’s investigation into the…
Pete Hegseth made millions at Fox News and $900,000 from 41 paid speeches in the last 2 years
Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host who Trump has nominated to serve as secretary of defense. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has made millions of dollars per year working as a Fox News host, according to a financial disclosure made public on Monday. Hegseth disclosed more than $4.6…
