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America wasn't 'really founded' until 1965, MS NOW guest historian argues ahead of 250th birthday
Presidential historian Jon Meacham argued on MS NOW that America did not become a "multiracial, multiethnic democracy" until 1965 ahead of its 250th birthday.…
Les Mills, the New Zealand Olympian who founded a chain of gyms, dies at 91
Les Mills, the New Zealand Olympian and founder of the gym chain bearing his name, has died at age 91…
I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life
The world's largest encyclopedia was overrun by bias and censorship-and pushed me out when I tried to fix it.…
I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life. Plus . . .
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jonathan Rosen on monsters and monstrous ideas. Jed Rubenfeld on the Supreme Court’s landmark asylum ruling. And much more.…
Mamdani-backed socialist primary winner founded group whose goal is to ‘eradicate' Western civilization
Darializa Avila Chevalier, NYC congressional primary winner, reportedly founded a Columbia group that called for total eradication of Western civilization.…
Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train "continual learning" models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
TIL about Nicholas D. McKay who, in 1955, while chaperoning a school dance, wrapped masking tape around a toilet paper tube affixed to a coat hanger to remove lint from his tuxedo. A year later, he founded the Helmac Products Corporation to manufacture his new invention: the lint roller.
TIL the first Commandant of the Marine Corps, Samuel Nicholas, was a Freemason and that Tun Tavern, where the Marine Corps was founded in 1775 was an active Masonic lodge. Ben Franklin was initiated there in 1730.
Deals & Moves: Beacon Pointe Acquires $360M Female-Founded RIA
Audio generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
Huxe said that it has pulled its app from App Store and Play Store, and that it will stop working later this month…
‘I should have been dead’: He co-founded a $4.2b empire but has given it up to become a priest
Scott Borba was living the high life until one night at a party at his newly renovated house in the Hollywood Hills, he looked around and questioned everything.…
Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy
The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.…
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock to build AI-powered devices, raised a $700M+ Series A led by Parkway Venture at a $6B post-money valuation (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise $1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise $1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition — The co-founde…