NEW YORK — A Florida woman who was paid $750,000 by a fund for people sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to falsifying records she used in her application for the money. Jennifer Percival, a scholar who has written books on autism, entered the plea in federal court in New York on Monday,
The American Dream of graduating college, landing a six-figure job, and moving into a white picket-fenced home is slipping out of reach. More Gen Zers and millennials are stuck living with their families than ever—so now Airbnb is investing a quarter of a billion dollars to help turn the tide. Airbnb recently announced an initial
Cate Blanchett will travel to Tokyo for the 39th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, where five short films backed by the Displacement Film Fund will receive their Japan premieres. Blanchett co-founded the Displacement Film Fund, which supports displaced filmmakers and those with a demonstrated history of telling authentic stories rooted in the experiences
Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early bets on Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen, and Olipop, among others, is taking a stake in the soccer club D.C. United and its stadium, Audi Field. It’s the latest — and smallest — firm to try something
Google will buy up to half the electricity produced by one of Finland’s nuclear power plants as part of a record €13bn (£11bn; $15bn) investment in the country’s AI infrastructure, the company announced. The US tech giant said the package would fund three new data centres, expand an existing site and support energy projects to
Multistrategy hedge funds’ returns were muted in August, though managers likely appreciated a quieter month after a turbulent July. Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management was flat in August, a person close to the manager told Business Insider, putting the firm’s 2026 gains at 8.2%. Balyasny lost 0.7% last month, according to a source familiar with the
