BuzzFeed sells ‘Hot Ones’ studio For $82.5 million to investors
BuzzFeed sold First We Feast, the studio best known for producing “Hot Ones,” a popular interview show where celebrities eat a series of increasingly spicy chicken wings.
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Why Caitlin Clark is one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2024
The Indiana Fever rookie lit the match that set women’s sports on fire this year—including a $2 billion media rights deal for the WNBA, gender parity in the Olympics, and record-breaking viewership for professional women’s soccer.
Apple Intelligence arrives in Australia. Here’s what you need to know
Apple Intelligence, the tech giant’s advanced AI suite set to upgrade your iPhone and Mac, has officially launched in Australia and New Zealand.
The World’s Most Powerful Women 2024: Inside the real power shift
From Ursula von der Leyen to Taylor Swift, these 100 women are wielding power in new ways.
Elon Musk is now worth more than $400 billion, the first person to ever do it
A new $350 billion value for SpaceX helped to lift Musk’s net worth to a historic high—more than for any billionaire Forbes has ever tracked.
Revealed: the public figures Googled most in 2024
In Australia, 8 out of the 10 most Googled people are US-based. They range from politicians to musicians, to athletes. Here are the 10 people that piqued our interest the most this year.
Rupert Murdoch loses bid to change family trust
Rupert Murdoch wanted to give his eldest son, Lachlan, control of his media empire amid worries his other children may try to “reorient” the editorial policy of some of his holdings, including Fox News.
What we know about xAI as it bolsters itself for AI race—with $6 billion in new funding
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI disclosed Thursday it raised $6 billion in equity financing—the company’s latest step forward as it raises funding and …
‘Hawk Tuah’ creator Hailey Welch criticised after Memecoin crash
The cryptocurrency is the latest move by Haliey Welch to capitalize on her “hawk tuah” meme, following her “Talk Tuah” podcast and AI-powered dating app.
Sam Bankman-Fried is shopping his prison diary – Here’s a peek inside
Disgraced former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried is serving a 25-year sentence in New York City’s Metropolitan Detention Center. He’s learning about such things as sports gambling and a drug called “deuce,” and he badly misses his teddy bear Manfred.