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Thirteen Lune founder Nyakio Grieco wants to build a truly inclusive beauty industry

Entrepreneur Nyakio Grieco cofounded the beauty retailer Thirteen Lune in 2020. The platform carries 90% BIPOC-owned brands, including Pattern Beauty, Ami Colé, Bomba Curls, and Macabalm. In 2022, she also launched Relevant, a skincare line that puts inclusivity at the forefront. Last month, Relevant forayed into color cosmetics with the launch of lip and cheek tints and lip gloss.

On this week’s episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Grieco talks about being

The SBF trial’s closing statements gave us 2 versions of the failed crypto king

Is he Samuel Bankman-Fried, a liar and a “celebrity chaser” who orchestrated a multibillion-dollar fraud? Or is he “Sam,” an “awkward high school math nerd” with sloppy clothes and messy hair who meant well and did his best as his crypto exchange collapsed?

In closing statements in Bankman-Fried’s federal fraud trial Wednesday, both the prosecution and the defense tried to convince the jury of their version of the defendant. He is cha

DoorDash just had its best quarter since its IPO

DoorDash reported its “best quarter ever” since its IPO in a number of key categories on Wednesday, which it says was driven partly by efficiency and customer demand as summer ended.

The delivery giant posted revenue of $2.2 billion for its third quarter, which is up 27% from the same quarter a year ago. Analysts were expecting sales of $2.09 billion for the quarter.

“The business is firing on all cylinders both on the top line as well as the bottom li

Over-automation is breaking the web

We’re breaking the web and it’s unlikely we can fix it. Websites work, but their underlying data management doesn’t seem to work all that well. This didn’t happen suddenly.

Over time, the web has built on top of itself, and with the relatively recent addition of more automation-controlling functions, it seems to have gotten a lot worse. While some believe that the web will eventually eat itself from perpetual “AI learning from AI,” the news

When worlds literally collide: Earth may still contain remnants of the ancient planet Theia

Our solar system was a violent place 4.5 billion years ago. As planetesimals were forming out of a disk of gas and dust surrounding our sun, they began to collide. This process led to the formation of the larger protoplanets that would become our solar system.

During this chaotic period in our local neighborhood, Theia, a Mars-sized protoplanet, may have struck the Earth with such force that impact debris from this collision created the moon. Now, scientists think that pieces of The

Making sense of the White House’s plan to catch up with the fast-moving AI industry

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Assessing Biden’s executive order on AI

President Biden released on Monday a sprawling executive order designed to help the federal government ensure AI systems’ safety. AI companies have for mont

Civil society groups issue a surprise open letter to the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit

The U.K.’s landmark AI Safety Summit, a conclave of around 120 representatives from leading AI companies, academics, and civil society representatives taking place at Bletchley Park this week, has encountered an unexpected wrinkle thanks to an urgent letter by nearly a dozen participants who believe the summit is targeting the wrong issues.

Representatives from 11 civil society groups, all of which are included on the government’s official guestlist for the event, have

WeWork stock price falls to an all-time low after bankruptcy report

WeWork stock is plunging in pre-market trading on Wednesday after reports said the company is on the cusp of filing for bankruptcy. News of its impending bankruptcy announcement sent WeWork shares to an all-time low. Here’s what you need to know.

  • What’s happened? Yesterday The Wall Street Journal reported that WeWork plans to file
LinkedIn is adding new generative AI tools to help job seekers

LinkedIn is rolling out a new premium experience that uses generative AI to help job seekers find new positions.

The features are powered by large language models in combination with a massive knowledge graph containing information and insights about 67 million employers and a billion professionals. Starting with a limited group of premium users, the platform will help job seekers research industries and opportunities, and help them generate content they’ll need to pursue op

Figma’s future is about far more than design—or getting acquired

On September 15, 2022, Adobe made an announcement that took the tech world’s breath away, yet somehow had a whiff of inevitability to it. The software behemoth, long known for its acquisitiveness, had agreed to buy Figma, the wildly popular web-based platform for interface design, for $20 billion. The merger faced immediate resistance from Figma fans, who worried about the product’s fate as an arm of Adobe. Many on Wall Street were doubtful for their own reasons, finding the pri


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