Jeff Bezos-Backed Physical Intelligence Robot Can Do Chores
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Jeff Bezos-Backed Physical Intelligence Robot Can Do Chores

Last week, AI startup Physical Intelligence unveiled its first general robot model, π₀ (pi-zero), which can do everything from clearing the table after dinner to folding the laundry. Earlier this year, the company was valued at $400 million. Now, a Monday report shows that the startup has reached unicorn status, surpassing a $1 billion valuation after raising $400 million, at

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Billionaire CEO Daniel Lubetzky Shares Morning Routine, Tips
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Billionaire CEO Daniel Lubetzky Shares Morning Routine, Tips

Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of Kind Snacks with a personal net worth of $2.3 billion, admits that his morning routine used to be exhausting. “I used to have horrible habits,” he said in an interview with Entrepreneur. Lubetzky founded Kind Snacks in 2004 and sold it for $5 billion in 2020; he is now the founder and chairman of Camino

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AI Startups Raised $2.9 Billion in Three Months—Here's Why
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AI Startups Raised $2.9 Billion in Three Months—Here’s Why

OpenAI recently secured $6.6 billion in funding at a valuation of $157 billion, but it’s far from the only AI company with high fundraising potential. Investors poured $2.9 billion from July to September (Q3) of 2024 into the latest U.S.-based AI startups, per PitchBook data. The three startups in the U.S. that received some of the most funding were software

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Netflix Adds 5 Million Users, Analysts Predict Price Hike
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Netflix Adds 5 Million Users, Analysts Predict Price Hike

Netflix posted its third-quarter earnings on Thursday and beat Wall Street predictions for both subscribers added and overall revenue. Meanwhile, analysts forecast that the streaming giant will soon raise its prices. Netflix’s revenue for the third quarter was $9.825 billion, slightly more than the $9.769 billion analysts had predicted. The company also added 5.1 million subscribers, well over the 4

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Social Security Payments to Increase By 2.5%: What It Means
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Social Security Payments to Increase By 2.5%: What It Means

The average Social Security payment is increasing by $48 per month next year. The Social Security Administration announced the 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 on Thursday, marking the smallest increase since 2021. The average COLA was 2.6% across the past decade, with the 2024 change at 3.2%, according to the administration. The close to 68 million Social Security beneficiaries

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Is Bank of America Still Down? Reports of Mass Outage
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Is Bank of America Still Down? Reports of Mass Outage

Bank of America customers reported issues accessing their accounts on Wednesday, from log-in problems to balances incorrectly listed at $0. Bank of America has acknowledged in a statement that “some clients are experiencing an issue accessing their accounts” and the company is working on the problem. “These issues are being addressed and have largely been resolved,” the statement read. “We

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Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp Surveil, Monetize User Data: FTC
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Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp Surveil, Monetize User Data: FTC

In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission ordered the biggest social media and streaming companies in the world, including Twitch owner Amazon, Facebook (now Meta), YouTube, Reddit, WhatsApp, Twitter (now X), Snap, Discord and TikTok’s ByteDance, to share how they used their users’ personal information. On Thursday, FTC staff released a 129-page report, which found that these companies all “harvest

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Amazon CEO Mandates Employees Return to Office 5 Days a Week
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Amazon CEO Mandates Employees Return to Office 5 Days a Week

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made a case — and a mandate — for in-office work on Monday. In a publicly available message, Jassy said that Amazon’s 1.5 million-plus employees must return to the office five days per week starting January 2. Amazon is also bringing back desk assignments to the offices that had that structure pre-pandemic. Jassy positioned the move

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How Drybar Went from Side Hustle to $255 Million Business
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How Drybar Went from Side Hustle to $255 Million Business

Alli Webb spent her twenties working in hair salons. When she moved to Los Angeles and became a stay-at-home mom, she started a mobile blowout side hustle — so she would go to a client’s home, blow-dry their hair, and style it for $40. No haircuts or hair color. “I got tons of clients,” Webb told entrepreneur Jeff Berman on

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Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy Podcast Moving to SiriusXM
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Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy Podcast Moving to SiriusXM

Alex Cooper, famed for her candid discussions on sex and relationships on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast, is leaving Spotify for a lucrative engagement with SiriusXM, according to several sources. The deal reportedly spans multiple years, possibly three, and is worth more than $100 million, per Bloomberg, while other reports say closer to $125 million. Cooper’s Spotify deal was

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Cash App's $15 Million Settlement: How to Claim Money
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Cash App’s $15 Million Settlement: How to Claim Money

If you’ve ever used Cash App to send or receive money, you might be eligible to receive part of a $15 million class action settlement. A new lawsuit settlement states that the money-transferring platform showed a “failure to exercise reasonable care” in working to protect customers’ personal information before mass data breaches in 2021 and 2023 that affected an estimated

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Prices Fell in June for the First Time Since 2020
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Prices Fell in June for the First Time Since 2020

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In a welcome break from persistent price hikes, US consumers experienced a slight retreat in the cost of living for the first time since the early days of the pandemic. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 0.1% drop in consumer prices in June, bringing down the annual inflation rate to 3%

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Apple: iPhone X, HomePod, AirPods 'Vintage,' Soon 'Obsolete'
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Apple: iPhone X, HomePod, AirPods ‘Vintage,’ Soon ‘Obsolete’

Three groundbreaking Apple devices — the iPhone X, HomePod, and original AirPods — are now considered vintage. And the clock is ticking on how long they will be eligible for repairs. Apple added the three to its vintage product list on Monday, meaning that it stopped selling the products more than five, and less than seven, years ago. Apple customers

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Car Dealership Outages Persist From CDK Software Cyberattack
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Car Dealership Outages Persist From CDK Software Cyberattack

Car dealerships across the country are being forced to use paper forms as the auto industry looks to recover from a cyberattack that caused mass outages last week. The attack hit CDK Global Systems, a cloud-based software that runs all back-end financials and information on car sales, financing, repairs, maintenance, and more. The company serves an estimated 15,000 car dealerships

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Amazon's Fake Book Problem With Upcoming UFO Tome 'Imminent'
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Amazon’s Fake Book Problem With Upcoming UFO Tome ‘Imminent’

The former senior leader of a Pentagon unit that studied UFOs is releasing a highly anticipated book this August — and some have already mistakenly ordered from deceptive Amazon listings and received superficially convincing fakes of the book. Luis Elizondo led the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a U.S. governmental unit that looked into UFOs before he resigned in

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