Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The House of the Griffins (Casa dei Grifi), one of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes, is now accessible to the public for the first time. The name “Casa dei Grifi” originates from a decorative motif featuring griffins—mythological creatures depicted with the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. This distinctive decoration...
The AI industry entered 2025 with strong momentum. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were $1 billion in size or larger. The industry didn’t slow down in 2025. While less companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion, four — Anthropic raised two rounds over $1 billion — significantly more...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who has been a target of the Trump administration, is showing a sign of unity with another central-bank member. Source link...
OnePlus unveiled its current flagship, the OnePlus 15, in October last year. Although the launch of its successor is still some time away, leaks have already begun to surface online. The latest leak hints at the phone’s battery capacity. The OnePlus 16 will house a large 9,000mAh battery, according to a tipster. Notably, its predecessor, the 15, comes with a...
In Donald Westlake’s 1997 horror novel ‘The Ax’, a recently laid-off manager at a paper company decides to thin out the competition in the job pool by tracking down and taking out his potential competitors as he vies for a new job. Westlake’s book was written amid the corporate redundancies of ’90s America; it struck a chord with the Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who...
Without the glossy production values that come with screening in a multiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on their ability to curate interesting lineups of films. “I try to bring in a theme”, Phoebe says, “whether that be ideological, like in our first season, ‘Rotten Britain’, or something more formal, like the ‘Time and Meditation’ series that focused on...
Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, according to the Financial Times. It’s a move sure to turn heads in Silicon Valley. Why? Because venture capital firms have historically avoided backing competing companies in the same sector, preferring to place their bets on a single winner. Yet here’s Sequoia, already invested...
If you’ve been following the billionaire exodus from California with some confusion, here’s what’s actually driving the nervousness: it’s not the 5% rate. As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own. Take Larry Page, who about 3% of Google but controls roughly...
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch. Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come. The story includes bootstrapping their way to over $1...
Despite having a strong healthcare system, vaccine hesitancy and mixed messages from government have curtailed some immunization efforts.Credit: Carl Court/GettyWhen US officials announced earlier this month that they were shrinking the country’s roster of recommended childhood immunizations, physicians and scientists alike wondered what to expect. How much would infectious disease rates rise? Who would be most affected? Half a world...
