Green juices and meditation apps are so 2015. In the quest to live better and healthier, anyone interested in wellness is likely into data-heavy optimization for greater insight on their body’s longevity. And such data is now increasingly easy to accumulate at home with just a few drops of blood ...

At an all-hands meeting earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a question that prompted him to talk about a personal topic: nepotism at Nvidia. In response, Huang acknowledged that Nvidia had indeed hired the children of many employees and insisted it didn’t bother him. He said he ...

Last August, when CNN’s Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launchStatus, an email newsletter focused on the media industry, he cast about for a platform that would allow him to customize the look and feel of his new venture so it didn’t resemble every other media newsletter. ...

Lee Jacobs, co-founder of Long Journey Ventures, thought he had seen it all among his friends and acquaintances in Silicon Valley: thecontinuous glucose monitors, the cortisol tests, the frequent bloodwork to monitor hundreds of biomarkers and maximize longevity. Recently, another wellness ...

Need a mentor to jolt your thinking—or need to lock yourself away from the world for 20 days? A whole new generation of startup accelerators has proliferated in recent years, each one promising to turbocharge a founder’s ambitions. Many of the best are from the most prominent names in Silicon ...

A couple weeks ago, LeBron James was in Las Vegas, seated courtside at the Thomas and Mack Center to watch his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, scrimmage against their crosstown rivals, the Clippers. The game was a highlight of the NBA’s annual off-season Summer League tournament, where rookies and ...

What do you get when you mix plenty of the world’s most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway camp setup in Idaho? Well, for years, the Sun Valley Conference, hosted by Allen & Co., the ultrasecretive investment bank, was a place to hobnob and perhaps strike a deal. It’s something else now: an ...

We all grew up with wide-eyed ideas of flying cars—you know, one day zipping around town like the Jetsons. Their failure to materialize so disappointed investor Peter Thiel that he quipped: “We wanted flying cars; instead we got 140 characters.” You’re free not to believe him, but JoeBen Bevirt ...

At the moment, many in the tech industry have developed a rather profound addiction to Granola. No, not to the crunchy breakfast-time oats—but to a software product made by a two-year-old startup that has come to dominate a crowded field of artificial intelligence–powered note-taking options. ...

The main Department of Justice building, across from the National Archives in Washington, was the kind of brooding edifice Dylan Field had walked through a lot in 2023 as he tried to convince governments around the world to let him sell Figma, the design software startup that had been his life, ...

Dead billionaires have piled up in modern pop culture to an almost absurd amount. Surely some Pacific Heights morgue is overflowing by this point. Well, “Dead Money” adds one more to the examiner’s table: Trevor Canon, the uber-wealthy founder of Journy, an Uber-like startup worth mega billions. ...

On an unseasonably warm May afternoon in Manhattan’s bustling Rockefeller Center, the designers Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski stood a few yards in front of a large, colorful sculpture—a “vibrant mirrored maze,” as a nearby placard puts it—that they’d spent the past year building. Billed as a ...

During the first game of the WNBA season, Chicago Sky star forward Angel Reese received a hard foul from her archrival, the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark. The tough basketball play sparked a maelstrom of hate speech that snowballed across social media, an episode that highlighted how quickly ...

Summer is here, and so is the crushing pressure of what camps or programs to sign your kid up for in order to impress on college applications. Looking to help your little one become the next Bezos? There’s a camp for that. As it turns out: Play your cards right, and this time of year can be just ...

Every investor knows what’s wrong with private markets right now. Venture capital and private equity funds have delivered weak returns, few exits and little cash for investors, resulting in a brutal fundraising climate for funds and therefore companies. The bigger picture reveals a much worse ...

Say you’re at the top of your field. Say you’ve been promoted to be a senior researcher at OpenAI, watching the paper value of your equity swell as your company’s valuation goes from less than $20 billion to $260 billion in just four years. Say Mark Zuckerberg—yes, Zuck, personally—comes texting ...

More than 1,700 men have broken the 4-minute mile, but no woman has ever done so. The fastest any female runner has ever covered the distance is 4 minutes and 7.64 seconds, the current world record set by Faith Kipyegon in 2023. Which is to say: not even close. Nevertheless, Nike is staging a ...

Elon Musk’s forecasts of an ultralavish future for Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, have not only been a boon to his company’s share price: They’ve provided a broad lift to nearly everyone working on humanoids, a technology once considered a fantasy land. One of the biggest beneficiaries is ...

For years, data labeling existed in a tucked-away corner of Silicon Valley, a critical but unglamorous area of AI where companies like Google and OpenAI hire outside firms to improve their models by laboriously grading the quality of what they produce. Now, aspotlight has unexpectedly fallen ...

In Silicon Valley, cutting back on booze has been in vogue for a while. Now the tech elite is going cold turkey on something else: traditional energy drinks like Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy. That’s led to a fresh wave of beverage startups selling elixirs that purport to give an animating jolt to ...