With the increase in fixture congestion across European football, top English clubs have used the early rounds of the Carabao Cup to give young players a chance to shine, allowing top stars to rest. Just yesterday, Manchester City saw 16-year-old academy player Kaden Braithwaite become the club’s third-youngest defender ever to play for the side, […]
The Cosmos Institute, whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, launches grant programs and an AI lab
The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and former Defense Department technologist Brendan McCord, has announced a venture program and research initiatives to — in the organization’s words — “cultivate a new generation of technologists and entrepreneurs equipped with deep philosophical thinking to navigate the uncharted territory of our […]
Las Vegas Raiders CB Jack Jones irate over Madden NFL 25 rating
Madden NFL 25 is set for a full release on Aug. 16, but the game has already been ruffling plenty of feathers when it comes to both players and fans, and Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Jack Jones is in that group. Ahead of the game’s release on Friday, Madden NFL 25 has revealed player ratings as the […]
Fintech Fragment eases ledger problems, nabs $9M from Stripe, Jack Altman, BoxGroup, others
Ask any engineer tasked with tracking customer balances, what the experience is like, and you’ll get a deep sigh that says, ledgering is the bane of existence. Fragment is a startup that offers a ledger API that makes real-time, double-entry accounting accessible to engineers without having to learn a whole new accounting vocabulary. Founders Thomas Neckel, CEO, and […]
How a B2B payments startup won Max, Jack and Sam Altman, JP Morgan as investors
It’s not everyday that OpenAI founder Sam Altman teaches your class at Stanford, but that’s the kind of entrepreneurial spirit Lawrence Lin Murata, co-founder and CEO of Slope, tapped into as he and Alice Deng build their B2B payments company. “We met back in 2016 when he taught a class called ‘How to Start a […]