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Deadspin Sold to European Startup, Entire Staff Laid Off

Left-wing sports news site Deadspin will be under new management starting Monday, with the entire staff currently looking for work. The website was sold to a European journalism start-up, and employees were told on Monday that the new company would be doing a complete clean-up and starting with all new employees. Jim Spanfeller, CEO of […]

Oscar Meyer to sel vegan hot dogs with startup backed by Jeff Bezos

Oscar Mayer plans to roll out plant-based hot dogs and sausages this year with the help of a startup backed by Jeff Bezos. The Kraft Heinz Company’s iconic brand has partnered with The Knot Company, a vegan-focused company whose investors include Amazon’s billionaire founder, to launch Knot Hot Dogs and Knot Hot Dogs. Announcing “Knot […]

AI startup Anthropic unveils new chatbot to rival ChatGPT

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Google and Amazon, on Monday launched its latest AI chatbot group called Claude 3, which it claims is the fastest and most powerful yet. The company says the Claude 3 Opus, the most intelligent of the three new models, has been ranked ahead of Google’s Gemini across industry […]

A Flying Car Startup Backed By SpaceX Has Almost 3,000 Pre-Orders For $300k Vehicles

Jim Dukhovny, CEO of Alef Aeronautics, unveiled the Alef Model A Flying Car at the 2023 North American International Detroit Auto Show on September 13, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan. Featuring 35 brands and indoor EV trucks, the show opens to the public on September 16th and runs through September 24th. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) […]

SpaceX-backed flying car startup says it hit 2,850 pre-orders

The SpaceX-backed $300,000 flying car maker announced it has a backlog of 2,850 pre-orders and plans to fly its first prototype as early as next year. Silicon Valley-based startup Aleph Aeronautics has announced that pre-orders for its Model A have exceeded $850 million. The 850-pound two-seater vehicle, which was first unveiled at last year’s Detroit […]

Startup is shipping ancient Arctic ice to Dubai bars

A Greenlandic startup has been accused of shipping ice from a 100,000-year-old glacier to be used in cocktails served at upscale bars in Dubai, causing severe damage to the environment. Arctic Ice, launched this year, touts its product as the “oldest and purest” ice in the world because it is harvested from icebergs in Greenland, […]

Elon Musk’s xAI startup targets valuation as high as $20B: sources

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, which created the insidious Grok chatbot, aims to raise billions of dollars in a private funding round in the coming weeks, valuing the company at $20 billion. The Post reported that this is a possibility. The new funding, which comes as major rival Google grapples with its “woke” AI […]