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Billionaire couple bought a $40 million abandoned power plant site. Now they are spending $410 million turning it into a public parkAustin and Allison McChord purchased an abandoned power plant in Norwalk with plans for transformation. Their vision includes creating a pu...- In 2010, Playboy's Hugh Hefner donated $900,000 to save land behind the Hollywood Sign from luxury homes. 16 years on, 138 acres at Cahuenga Peak remain protected in Griffith ParkIn 2010, a major fundraising campaign sought to protect 138 acres at Cahuenga Peak, the land behind the iconic Hollywood Sign, from potenti...
- In 1991, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore paid $6 million for 24 Woodside acres; 30 years later, his estate placed the property under a permanent conservation easementIn 1991, Gordon and Betty Moore acquired Mountain Meadow, a historic estate nestled in Woodside, California. They dedicated significant res...
- In 1956, Houston postman Jeff McKissack began building with things he found on roadsides; 23 years later, those materials filled a strange 3,000-square-foot mazeJeff McKissack, a retired mail carrier, built the Orange Show in Houston over 23 years. He used various found materials to create a vibrant...
- OpenAI fires three researchers: What we know so farOpenAI has made headlines by firing three safety team researchers accused of leaking sensitive information externally. This violation of co...
- Leading Democrat asks AI firms for data on any Chinese access to sensitive codeOpenAI and Anthropic have reported multiple instances of Chinese AI firms like Moonshot or DeepSeek "distilling" their AI models, or traini...
- Tata Trusts seeks hearing on Venu Srinivasan's complaint before charity commissionerTata Trusts has sought a hearing with the Maharashtra charity commissioner in response to a complaint lodged by Venu Srinivasan. This compl...
- Fourth-lowest since 2001: Rainfall 13% below normalThe southern peninsula and East and Northeast India were particularly affected, receiving just 76% and 74% of their respective normal rainf...
- Billionaire Barry Diller spent $260 million to transform a derelict New York pier into a little island. Now millions use the Hudson river parkLittle Island transformed an abandoned pier into a public park on Manhattan's Hudson River. Barry Diller funded the project to create a spa...
- Smartworks to get Rs 305 cr office rent from new corporate clientsSmartworks Coworking Spaces Ltd has successfully secured new leasing contracts with corporate clients in various cities. The company projec...
- Space-tech’s missing link: The skilled talent powering India’s $100 billion ambitionSpace job news: India's space industry is undergoing significant changes, with an increasing presence of private startups contributing to i...
- OpenAI apologies for Australian government website hack, pledges to rebuild trust(Updates throughout with more details of blog post)- OpenAI apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI ag...
- SpaceX's supersized Starship launches into orbit for the first time but flight ends earlySpaceX successfully launched its Starship spacecraft into orbit, marking a significant milestone for the company. The Starship delivered 26...
- ETMarkets NRI Talk | AI’s 30x sales premium: Apurva Sheth on OpenAI, Anthropic and the valuation debateOpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly commanding valuations that translate into roughly 30-38 times price-to-sales, compared with around 3.7 ...
- Embassy REIT raises Rs 1,000 crore in first bank financing at trust levelEmbassy Office Parks REIT successfully raised Rs 1,000 crore through floating-rate non-convertible debentures in a notable transaction. Thi...
- In 2018, NASA satellite images of penguin guano sent researchers to Antarctica's Danger Islands, where they found more than 1.5 million Adélie penguinsIn December 2015, scientists found a massive colony of over 1.5 million Adélie penguins on the Danger Islands. This discovery was made poss...
- OpenAI says SEC disclosures undermine xAI's antitrust lawsuitChatGPT maker OpenAI asked a Texas federal judge to throw out an antitrust lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's AI startup xAI before trial, argu...
- Good Will Hunting actor Robin Williams once lived in this $4 million California waterfront home with 6 bedrooms, pool, spa and stunning Bay views; inside the property that later sold for $5.35 millionRobin Willaims the famous actor and comedian once lived in a luxurious $4 million home which had 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, a pool and spa ...
- In 1997, actor Paul Newman donated 7.5 acres to Connecticut's Westport to stop development. 14 years later, his land formed part of the 39-acre Newman-Poses Nature Preserve, now public landIn 1997, actor Paul Newman donated 7.5 acres to Connecticut’s Westport to stop development. Fourteen years later, his land became part of t...
- Deeper than the Mariana Trench, near its border with Norway, the Soviet Union spent 20 years drilling 7.6 miles into Earth; in 1992, the deepest borehole on Earth was abandoned in a region industrialization had turned into one of the most ‘poisoned spots on Earth’The Kola Superdeep Borehole, a groundbreaking feat by Soviet engineers, extends over twelve kilometers into the Earth. This ambitious endea...
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