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Michaël Trazzi is on a hunger strike outside of DeepMind's office in London.
  • Michaël Trazzi is on a hunger strike outside DeepMind's London office to protest AI.
  • Trazzi fears AI models like GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro are nearing dangerous capabilities.
  • He's urging DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to halt new model releases.

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Kevin Hannegan
  • Kevin Hannegan, 53, has been job hunting for 14 months after a layoff in 2024.
  • He's cut costs and picked up side jobs like DoorDash in an effort to stay afloat financially.
  • The Gen Xer is among the Americans struggling to find work amid a white-collar hiring slowdown.

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Young founders in Silicon Valley's 'Youthquake' aren't waiting to grow up.

It's the golden age of AI, and there's a new gospel in Silicon Valley: Building a startup isn't just for the chosen few. It's the new rite of passage into adulthood.

Young founders have long been icons. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and others all bailed on school in their teens and 20s to


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Eloquent AI Cofounders Tugce Bulut and Aldo Lipani, wearing black shirts with the company logo in front of a purple background.
Eloquent AI Cofounders Tugce Bulut and Aldo Lipani
  • Eloquent AI cofounder Tugce Bulut closed a $7.4 million seed round in three days.
  • The startup automates complex customer service queries in financial services.
  • Eloquent says it has a long waitlist and reached $500,000 in annual recurring revenue in four weeks.

Y Combinator startup Eloquent AI has raised $7.4 million in seed funding to


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How Wall Street gyms compare
  • JPMorgan is opening a new HQ featuring a sleek gym; monthly costs are unknown.
  • It's not the only firm with a sweet space where Wall Streeters can work up a sweat.
  • We took a look at five Wall Street gyms, from Goldman to Citigroup.

JPMorgan's new 270 Park Avenue headquarters, opening this year, includes a wellness hub with medical clinics, meditation


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It seems like lately, there's a new — and confounding — political melee surrounding a company branding decision every other week. One company sniffles, and someone declares it woke. Another coughs, and it's white supremacist. Just look at what happened with American Eagle and Cracker Barrel over the summer. Or a couple of years ago, when the green M&M got sneakers. The