Playboy Was Once Valued at $2 Billion. Now Hugh Hefner’s Son Has a Plan to Buy It Back for a Fraction of That.
Cooper Hefner submitted a $100 million offer to buy back his dad’s storied brand.
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The Download: beyond freezing food, and AI mediation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How refrigeration ruined fresh food Three-quarters of everything in the average American diet passes through the cold chain—the network of warehouses, shipping containers, trucks, display cases, and domestic fridges that keep meat, milk,…
Would you trust AI to mediate an argument?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I’ve recently been feeling heartbroken. A very close friend recently cut off contact with me. I don’t really understand why, and my attempts at fixing the situation have backfired. Situations like…
How refrigeration ruined fresh food
Before you buy orange juice, it probably waited, for as long as two years, in a two-story, stainless-steel tank filled with 265,000 gallons of viscous brown slush. It’s orange juice, but with its water and volatile flavor molecules burned off. The result is a simple syrup six times more sugary than juice and devoid of…
AI Startups Received $2.9 Billion in Funding Last Quarter. These 3 U.S. Companies Received a Lot of It— And You’ve Probably Never Heard of Them.
AI was one of the few industries that saw growth in unicorns, or billion-dollar startups, last year.
You Want to Grow Your Business — But Do You Have a Plan? Here Are The Proactive Steps You Need to Take to Succeed.
Subscribing to routine growth initiatives at every level of a business is the key to short-term and long-term growth
2 Ways to Declutter Your Day and Unleash True Creative Freedom
The everyday responsibilities of running a business can limit your creativity. Invite more room for innovation by letting go of unnecessary tasks and visualizing your future success.
Microsoft Strikes Back at Salesforce, Announces New AI Agents That Can Take Over Finance, Sales, and Service Tasks
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called Microsoft’s Copilot AI “disappointing” earlier this month.
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