Hertz is selling 1/3 of its electric vehicles to buy gas cars. 

Zuckerberg is raising beer-drinking cattle on his $100 million Hawaii estate. 

Uber is testing a pricing bidding model in over a dozen cities.

Bain ranked #1 best place to work, according to Glassdoor.

Starbucks is accused of using child labor for its bean sourcing.

Google cut hundreds of jobs across engineering and hardware teams.

Mark Cuban will distribute $35 million in bonuses to Dallas Mavericks employees.

Saudi overtook the UAE in startup funding, with startups raising $1.4 billion in 2023.

Goldman is #1 in stocks trading again after a years-long fight.

North Korea was responsible for over $600 million in crypto thefts last year.

Blackstone raised $1.3 billion for its first PE fund for high-net-worth individuals.

E-Scooters, Tier and Dott plan to merge to find a path to profitability.

T-Mobile and SpaceX send the first texts via Starlink.

Robotics, Figure showed off its AI robot that learned how to make coffee.

Rabbit released a $199 AI-power gadget that can use your apps for you.

Musk denied illegal drug use, saying that "not even trace quantities" were found.

Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ stores now work with employee badges.

Waymo’s autonomous taxis will operate on highways for the first time.

Twitter/X will launch a Venmo-like feature later this year.

NASA and SpaceX’s manned moon mission has been delayed a year to 2025.

Stable Diffusion’s AI image generation can fake ID verification.  

Segway plans to release an e-bike. 

Cita lets you buy and sell reservations at the most exclusive restaurants. 

Mint House offers modern tech-enabled apartments for business travelers, as an alternative to hotels.

Finn offers 6-12 month car subscriptions with included insurance, maintenance, and no down payment.

Arrived lets you easily invest in rental homes and vacation rentals.

Withthings makes a multiscope used for at-home checkups of your temperature, heart, and lungs, which would normally require a trip to the doctor.

Niricson uses drones and AI to detect cracks and damages in dams, bridges, and airport runways.

Bevvy helps you discover new types and brands of whisky.

Alongside lets you invest in the top 15 crypto assets as an index.

Flause makes an electric dental floss device.  

QuantHealth can simulate a clinical trial in thousands of variations within minutes.

Circ recovers the original materials from polycotton blends from leftover clothing scraps.

Starbucks claimed $900 million in unspent gift cards/app money in the last 5 years.

Keith Rabois returned to Khosla Ventures from Founders Fund.

Stanley: the 110-year-old water bottle company that became a $750 million business.

A Chinese billionaire is the second-biggest foreign owner of U.S. land. 

Nearly 9 million student loan borrowers missed their first payments after the pandemic pause.

Immigration, NYC high school closed so illegal immigrants could sleep in its gym.

Golden Globes, Oppenheimer led movies with 5 awards, and ‘Succession’ led TV with 4.

Synagogue, A secret tunnel into a NYC synagogue led to a brawl between police and Hasidic Jews.

Gaza, South Africa told the UN’s top court that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

iPhone survived the 16k-foot drop of the Alaska Airlines plane.

Vision loss, including mid and near vision, is expected to hit 55% by 2025. 

Netflix released 705 originals in 2023, a 16% decrease YoY.

Tahoe Ski Resort, One person was killed and three were injured in an avalanche.

Pools, Plus Pools has funding to build a floating pool in NYC’s East River.

This Etsy site makes t-shirts featuring pharmaceutical company logos.  

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