Rockstar Games’ best-selling Grand Theft Auto series wasn’t often accused of political sensitivity during its legendary run from the late 1990s through the early 2010s. In fact, parents and activists denounced the franchise for exposing children to a seedy world of sex, violence, crude humor, and wanton crime. Elon Musk even claimed that he couldn’t
It looks like Caroline Ellison has emerged from stealth mode. A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange. Austin Chen, the founder of Manifund, a grantmaker tied to the effective altruism movement, wrote on Substack that
Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series “The Dropout.” Theranos purported to manufacture a device
Women’s Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has confirmed she will not compete during the 2026-27 season. Liu, 21, became the first American female since 2002 to win Olympic gold in women’s singles in February at the Milano Cortina Games, where she also helped the United States to claim gold in the team event. But
The next time you face adversity in your career—whether it’s a missed promotion, a difficult boss, or a deal that falls through—United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has a simple but effective mantra: “No excuses.” “Once you learn that, it’s just so transformative to everything in life because then you pivot from feeling bad for yourself,
Figma is trying to become more than just a design platform by adding more AI and bringing the coding and prototyping layer closer to its canvas. To that end, it acquired the team behind vibration coding and AI agent platform Bud (formerly Orchids). “Figma is one of, if not the most, defining product companies of
