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Unwell, Alex Cooper's beverage brand, winds down a day after her media company raised at $500M valuation·Thrive Capital discloses $250M Amazon position as firm expands public markets strategy·Jeff Bezos joins consortium acquiring ~33% stake in Liverpool FC at $7B+ valuation·Cursor acquisition by xAI officially closes — likely the highest IRR VC investment ever·Tesla's flying Roadster stunt involves a Hot Wheels-style loop, cold gas thrusters, and a remotely operated car·South Korea forces retail investors to complete week-long training before trading leveraged ETFs·Cami Clark profile puts Anthropic's moral brand under scrutiny ahead of IPO·Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs — EU regulation goes global·Nvidia enters the model wars with open-source Nemotron and AI router Nemo Switchyard·xAI releases Grok 4.6, matching frontier intelligence at 85% lower cost than Claude·Josh Kushner and Bob Iger acquire the LA Lakers in record $12.5B deal·Anthropic reportedly in talks to acquire Decart at a $6B valuation·Silver Lake in talks to acquire Workday in deal that could value the HR software giant at $50B·Aman resort cancels a YouTuber's booking and goes viral — but the full story is more complicated·North Korea's secret IT workforce infiltrated thousands of US companies using AI and stolen identities·Instagram refreshes its wordmark for the first time in a decade·Yahoo's head of multimodal AI leaves Meta to start a new company·
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Unwell, Alex Cooper's beverage brand, winds down a day after her media company raised at $500M valuation
Alex Cooper shuts down her Unwell energy drink brand one day after her media company raises $500 million, signaling a strategic pivot away from consumer products.
Aug 14, 2026
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