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How Salt & Stone Made Fancy Deodorant Into a $140 Million Business
[Business]
2025/12/12 09:09
With a hero speed stick that became a top seller at both Amazon and Sephora, Salt & Stone has leveraged fragrance, design and a pricing sweet spot to ride the body-care boom — however long it lasts.US body-care label Salt & Stone, founded in 2017, projects $140 million in revenue by the end of 2025.The brand has achieved rare dual success as a top seller in body care on both Amazon and...
While Google And OpenAI Battle For Model Dominance, Anthropic Is Quietly Winning The Enterprise AI Race
[Business]
2025/12/12 09:08
A survey by venture capital firm Menlo Ventures also finds that agentic AI is still a niche.Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise generative AI spending in 2025, according to a new survey by venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, even as agentic AI remains a niche within corporate deployments. The findings come from Menlo Ventures’ third annual State of Generative AI in the Enterprise rep...
Mirumi The Furry Companion Robot is Now Available on Kickstarter
[Product]
2025/12/12 09:07
The little robot that imitates an infant’s curiosity can be preordered now, but still won’t ship until April 2026.Among a sea of new TVs, robovacs, and smart glasses, Yukai Engineering’s Mirumi was a unique standout at CES 2025 earlier this year. The tiny robot has no practical purpose other than looking adorable and bringing a smile to people’s faces by simulating an inquisitive personalit...
What Netflix Gets (And Doesn't Get) in the Warner Bros. Deal
[Investing]
2025/12/12 09:06
Shaking the entertainment industry to its core, Netflix announced on Friday that it had agreed to acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO for $72 billion in a cash and stock deal. After years of tech companies gradually moving in on Hollywood’s turf, which saw companies like Netflix, Apple and Amazon invest billions in original content and threaten the...
AI Synthetic Research Startup Aaru Raised a Series A at a $1B ‘Headline’ Valuation
[Investing]
2025/12/12 09:05
Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, according to people familiar with the deal.The funding round included multiple valuation tiers. While some equity was acquired at a $1 billion valuation, other investors entered at a lower price, resulting in a blended valuation below $1 billion. Su...
Top 10 Most Desirable Luxury Brands in 2025
[Business]
2025/12/12 09:04
The RB ranking of the Top 10 Most Desirable Luxury Brands in 2025 highlights which houses are truly winning on brand value, search demand, and momentum this year, blending hard data with cultural relevance instead of just heritage status alone.The chart shows how a mix of iconic mega-brands and fast-rising names are reshaping what “desirable” looks like in a post-pandemic, social-first luxury...
Tiiny AI Reveals World's Smallest Personal AI Supercomputer, Verified by Guinness World Records
[Product]
2025/12/12 09:03
Tiiny AI Inc., a US deep-tech AI startup, today unveiled the world's smallest personal AI supercomputer, the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, officially verified by Guinness World Records under the category "The Smallest MiniPC (100B LLM Locally)." The event marked the first global public unveiling of the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab. For the first time in AI supercomputing, a pocket-sized device is capable of runn...
Daily Report : (PDF) Pew - 2025년 10대들의 소셜 미디어 및 AI 챗봇 사용 현황
[Daily Report]
2025/12/11 09:11
1. 퓨 리서치 센터 - 2025년 10대들의 소셜 미디어 및 AI 챗봇 사용 현황소셜 미디어 이용 실태와 인종적 차이: 미국 10대 중 약 20%가 틱톡과 유튜브를 거의 끊임없이 사용하고 있으며, 특히 흑인 및 히스패닉 청소년이 백인 청소년보다 여러 플랫폼을 '거의 끊임없이' 이용하는 비율이 더 높은 경향AI 챗봇 도입의 가속화: 10대 청소년의 약 64%가 AI 챗봇을 경험했고 10명 중 3명은 매일 사용 중이며, ChatGPT(59%)가 제미나...
(PDF) Pew - Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
[Consumer]
2025/12/11 09:10
Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about 3 in 10 who do so daily.Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S. teens from Sept. 25 to O...
