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Between Devil Wears Prada movies, Anne Hathaway became a kaiju

The underseen gem Colossal is streaming on Netflix. This offbeat monster movie is one of Hathaway's best films. She says so herself.

Heather Cox Richardson grades America

How would you grade America’s first 250 years?  That’s the question I posed to historian and professor Heather Cox Richardson on this week’s episode of America, Actually — and a question I pose to myself. All grades are subjective, and the rubric of whether America earns a passing grade is one of position and perspective, […]

A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO  —  The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever.  She has pulled off impossible ones before.

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.


Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The list includes AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm drone defence, inference chips for space, lunar manufacturing […]



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Honkai: Star Rail team designs characters with story first, combat second

We interviewed the Honkai: Star Rail developers to learn how the team designs so many characters, while keeping them unique.