I traveled to Las Vegas in May to watch the Enhanced Games — a one-of-a-kind sports competition that lets athletes compete while using the kind of performance-enhancing drugs typically banned in professional sports. The games, derided as the “steroid Olympics,” were put on by a telehealth company backed by the likes of Peter Thiel and
Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it was buying OpenRouter. While the company didn’t disclose the deal price, sources told the New York Times that it paid $7.5 billion. That’s a huge step up from OpenRouter’s $1.3 billion valuation in May. To put that price in context, the founders alone will reportedly receive $1.5 billion from the
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Forbes fired its longtime chief content officer, Randall Lane, in July after discovering he had received an undisclosed payment of about $6 million from RJ Shook, the founder of Shook Research, a firm that has partnered with Forbes since 2016 to publish its rankings of top wealth advisers. Lane, 58, worked at Forbes for 15
My 78-year-old dad has had a 15-year love affair with Paris. Every summer like clockwork, he and my stepmom escape their New England home and make their annual pilgrimage to the French capital. Even though my older sister and I have done our fair share of our own adventures, we had still never been to
Anna Faris’ Son Jack, 13, Makes Rare Public Appearance at Scary Movie 6 Premiere Anna Faris wasn’t quite sure how to approach being a mom. In fact, the Scary Movie star admitted that she had some trouble relating to her fellow parents while raising her and ex-husband Chris Pratt’s 13-year-old son Jack. “I didn’t always