Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is talking to VCs about a new round at a valuation of about $2. 5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should the deal close at these terms, the funding round would more than double the company’s …

On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of the Tuesday night meeting were previously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online. The full video reveals …

He first realised something was wrong when his daughter's school called him to say they were in lockdown. He was able to contact his wife, who was also under lockdown, but by the time he found out - from an emergency alert - that there was an active shooter, he …

"The work-life balance was at the heart of it," adds de Wit, who disagrees with the suggestion that their staff are now doing less work for the same amount of money. Instead he puts it down to "working smarter not harder"

"The most important thing to me has always been my family, but now I am able to give so much more of myself to it. Before I was living almost on the surface of it," he says

The ice dance competition at Milan-Cortina 2026 reached a thrilling conclusion, with a podium of the highest quality. American husband and wife Evan Bates and Madison Chock - gold medallists in the team event and three-time world champions - took silver, with bronze going to Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier …

Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid has apologised again for cheating on his ex-girlfriend and taking focus away from his team-mate's Winter Olympics triumph - but his former partner says the situation is "hard to forgive". Moments after winning bronze in the men's 20km - his first individual Olympic medal - …

American Nordic combined skier Annika Malacinski dreams of becoming an Olympic athlete. Instead, she must watch from the sidelines as her younger brother, Niklas, realises that dream at the 2026 Winter Games. Nordic combined - a combination of cross-country skiing and ski jumping - is the only Olympic discipline in …

Lindsey Vonn says she is "making progress" after having a successful third surgery on the broken leg she sustained in a crash at the Winter Olympics on Sunday. The American great was racing just nine days after rupturing ligaments in her left knee when she struck a gate 13 seconds …

"She was often there [on the island] but I was very scared of her," said Bryant. "It was almost like she sort of was running the place, she was very well educated and very sure of herself. I was just petrified of her