Elon Musk’s xAI says it is willing to pay out six-figure salaries to software engineers who can help the AI startup to develop its AI “companions.” The listing, titled “Fullstack Engineer – Waifus,” was posted on xAI’s career portal on Tuesday, just a day after the company released two AI “companions” on its Grok platform….
Whoever decided to step into the top job at Everlane was always going to have their work cut out for them. One of the stars of the 2010s direct-to-consumer boom, by 2022 the basics brand, known for its $30 organic cotton T-shirts and transparent pricing, was struggling to scrape together enough cash just to cover…
At a ceremony in London’s Royal Festival Hall last Thursday, Marco Bizzarri, the former Gucci chief executive who led the brand during its dramatic growth under creative director Alessandro Michele, offered his words of advice to students entering the fashion industry. “You’re going to face a lot of hurdles,” he said. “But I really wish…
Around 1.8 million BEVs were produced in Europe in 2024 (including the EU, UK, EFTA and Serbia, T&E calculations), very close to those sold in the same year (2 million). Germany leads the way with 1.2 million BEVs produced, followed by France with 330,000. Based on the current EU regulation on car CO2 standards, the…
Butch Meily is president of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation, IdeaSpace, and QBO Innovation. He is the author of the new memoir From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant’s Journey with America’s First Black Tycoon. In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy created a new federal agency, the United States International Agency for Development (USAID)….
Republican opposition to the GOP’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill appeared to be softening Wednesday night after President Donald Trump and White House budget director Russ Vought spent hours meeting with party holdouts during procedural votes that party leaders held open. House leaders have no desire to change the contents of the Senate-passed bill, which would…
Alta was exactly what Amy Wu Martin was looking for. Last year, Wu Martin, an investor at Menlo Ventures, was searching for a startup that used AI to address the lack of personalisation in online shopping. After being introduced to Jenny Wang and trying out a beta version of her personal styling app Alta —…
Tesla celebrated a historic first on Friday when a new Model Y left the factory in Austin and—without anyone in the vehicle—drove itself to a waiting customer a half-hour away. Already the second milestone this week after the commercial deployment of his robotaxi service, it marks an early birthday present for CEO Elon Musk. The entrepreneur had promised…
When Elon Musk first launched a bid to acquire Twitter three years ago, a move many of his supporters would grow to oppose, the entrepreneur’s most trusted lieutenant at Tesla quickly chimed in to offer his unconditional support. “Thank you for what you’re doing. We all love you and are always behind you!” Omead Afshar…
Was he always so lucky? Yes. Was wealth an aphrodisiac? No. In October 1980, Donald Trump, 34 years old, slender and soft-spoken, had answered a series of such questions from the gossip columnist Rona Barrett when he suddenly shifted the conversation onto a very different plane. When Ms Barrett asked about his destruction of some…