Good morning. Meta just settled a landmark child-safety case with a fine of up to $18 billion paid over the next decade, with annual payments equal to less than 1% of its 2025 revenue. Financially, that’s a victory for the parent of Facebook and Instagram, which said the 29-state lawsuit could have wiped out its
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tom Hale, the 57-year-old CEO of Oura Health, based in San Francisco. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I became the CEO of Oura in March 2022. We make the Oura Ring, a smart ring that delivers personalized health data and insights to help people
Some people may go back and volunteer at the hospital where they were born, or even fewer may go on to become a health care professional there. But it’s extremely unique to make a multimillion-dollar donation there. That’s what political powerbroker George Norcross was able to recently do, though. Norcross, who is considered one of
Canada is escalating its response to President Donald Trump’s trade war, with another round of retaliatory tariffs set to take effect September 8. But two key Canadian exports — oil and potash, a key fertilizer ingredient — should stay out of the fight, one Canadian premier said Wednesday. “What we as a province cannot and
Korean fried chicken with the chairmen of SK Group and LG. Yellowtail sashimi at Nobu with Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Mapo tofu and whiskey with TSMC founder Morris Chang. People are so curious about where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang eats, there’s a blog that tracks his sumptuous dinners out around the world. But the
As data center developers compete for a cut of the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the artificial intelligence industry, the queue to join the UK’s power grid has become jammed with projects that will likely never get built. The snarl is exacerbating already years-long wait times for viable projects, and it’s messing with
