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Mark Zuckerberg Dethroned: Three 22-Year-Old Mercor Founders Become Youngest Self-Made Billionaires
Mercor’s 22-year-old founders have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires after a $350 million funding round valued the AI recruitment startup at $10 billion, surpassing Mark Zuckerberg’s record. Mercor, a fast-rising recruitment startup powering AI model training for Silicon Valley’s biggest labs, has created the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. Three 22-year-old cofounders, including two Americans of Indian origin, have dethroned Mark Zuckerberg as the world’s youngest sel
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Soho House Acquired for £2 Billion as Ashton Kutcher Joins Board
Private members' club chain Soho House has been snapped up for $2.7bn (£2bn) by a consortium involving Hollywood actor turned investor Ashton Kutcher. The group opened its first club in London in 1995, and now has 46 Soho Houses in Europe, North America and Asia, as well a string of other up-market hospitality businesses. It is widely regarded as being a popular haunt of A-list celebrities, and one of its London venues was reportedly where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their first date.
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Trump’s 2024 Win: A Slow Growing Economy
The 2024 U.S. presidential election ended with Donald Trump returning to the White House after a tense, stop‑start campaign and a closer‑than‑expected election night map. Networks called the race only after key Midwestern and Sun Belt states finished counting late‑arriving and provisional ballots, turning what had looked like a narrow path into a clear Electoral College win for the former president. The result immediately reset the 2025 political calendar. Trump’s second administration arrived
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Bad Bunny On Course To Be Fastest Artist Ever To Reach A Billion Revenue
Bad Bunny’s ascent into rarefied touring territory is no longer a projection. It is a documented reality. On January 6, touring analytics account @TouringData posted a stark snapshot of the Puerto Rican superstar’s live dominance, writing, “Bad Bunny’s lifetime revenue has now surpassed $900 million from 5.7 million tickets sold since 2018. He is expected to become the fastest artist in history to reach $1 billion in the coming months.” Bad Bunny's lifetime revenue has now surpassed $900 mill
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Labubu, Moo Deng, and the New Life of Mascots Online
Labubu and Moo Deng do not obviously belong together, but they end up in the same place: keeping people watching. One is a sharp‑toothed designer toy from Pop Mart’s blind box machines, the other is a baby pygmy hippo at a Thai zoo whose bath videos travel across feeds in minutes. They sit in different corners of the world—Chinese collectibles and a local animal attraction—but live in the same part of the internet, where niche interests become global habits very quickly. Mascots used to stay on
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Bruno Mars Announces New Album — First Solo Project in a Decade
Peter Gene Hernandez, the American singer popularly known as Bruno Mars, has announced the completion of his fourth studio album. The 40-year-old global superstar broke the news on social media on Monday with a simple and short post that read: “My album is done”. However, the album’s title, tracklist, and release date remain unknown. My album is done. — Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) January 5, 2026 The announcement marks Mars’s first solo album since the monumental success of his third studio pr
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