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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Talia Lakritz |Isobel Asher Hamilton |Sarah Jackson
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, have now both been to space. Sánchez, a helicopter pilot and former journalist, went to space with an all-female crew via Bezos' Blue Origin. Four years ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went to space with his rocket company, Blue Origin. Now, his fiancée can say the same. Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist and licensed pilot herself, led Blue Origin's all-woman crew on a trip to space in April 2025.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Talia Lakritz |Isobel Asher Hamilton |Sarah Jackson
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, have now both been to space. Sánchez, a helicopter pilot and former journalist, went to space with an all-female crew via Bezos' Blue Origin. Four years ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went to space with his rocket company, Blue Origin. Now, his fiancée can say the same. Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist and licensed pilot herself, led Blue Origin's all-woman crew on a trip to space in April 2025.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Talia Lakritz |Isobel Asher Hamilton |Sarah Jackson
Sánchez, 55, is a helicopter pilot and entrepreneur as well as a former actor. She's also the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went to space with his rocket company, Blue Origin, four years ago. Now, it's his fiancée's turn.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
Spotify is king of music streaming, but it’s simply not the best in podcast land. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that YouTube has hit 1 billion monthly podcast viewers. Google-owned YouTube has been coming up in the audio-streaming space, and has ambitions to rival the world’s biggest music streamer, Spotify, but in the podcast space it can leverage what was already at the core of its business: video. Rewind a few years, and Spotify was all-in on podcasts.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
As the cold front between the US and Russia melts, defense contractors are feeling a chill. The biggest US defence contractors have seen their share prices fall while their European counterparts have rallied, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
You know what they say: A server a day keeps the tariffs away. Actually, no one says that, but on Monday, Apple announced it’s planning to open an AI server factory in Texas. As well as getting Apple on the AI compute train, the move seemed designed to please the Trump administration, which has been eager to trumpet AI infrastructure as one of its key economic pillars. Good timing too, since Apple is currently under pressure from a politically conservative activist investor.
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2 months ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
The metaverse can be a lonely place. Figures from consultancy AppFigures, reported by CNBC on Friday, show that Apple’s mixed reality headset Vision Pro is losing developers. Developers for augmented reality or virtual reality or whatever-reality-you-want-to-live-in headsets translate to apps, and without them, there’s really nothing for you to do in the metaverse. Imagine an iPhone with no apps — isn’t that terrible? Or wait, is that just a telephone?
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2 months ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
Last Tuesday, content conglomerate Thomson Reuters notched a big legal win. A judge ruled in its favor over a case filed back in 2020 — two years before the launch of ChatGPT — against a legal AI startup called ROSS Intelligence. Thomson Reuters was ahead of its time. In the years since then, publishers, authors, and even YouTubers have filed lawsuits against AI companies following the wave of AI-generated products that came out post-ChatGPT, and the pace of litigation is ever-increasing.
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2 months ago | 
thedailyupside.com | Isobel Asher Hamilton
Diamonds are the hardest known substance, but the diamond-mining market is looking more fragile than ever. On Thursday, mining giant Anglo American announced a $3.1 billion loss in its full-year results for 2024, and marked down the value of its diamond unit De Beers, which it has been trying to offload, by $2.9 billion. It notched a $1.6 billion writedown of the unit last year, so this year’s markdown is 81% bigger.
