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Everyday Health Group, a division of Ziff Davis, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired theSkimm, the newsletter and media brand dedicated to giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. TheSkimm was cofounded by Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg in 2012. They met in college, and then reconnected years later while working as news producers for NBC. The company began as a daily newsletter that was an essential daily news digest for millennial women (and men). Today, it offers multiple newsletters, podcasts, and a mobile app. It also houses Skimm Studios, which creates video and audio content, as well as SKM Lab, which allows brands to engage with generations of women. According to a press release, the acquisition should allow Everyday Health Group to connect with theSkimm’s loyal audience, providing trusted, evidence-based information and services to deliver timely and valuable content in the rapidly expanding womens health and wellness sector. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The creation of theSkimm marked a watershed moment in getting vital information to a highly engaged audience of female readers in an incredibly compelling format,” said Nan Forte, executive vice president and general manager of Everyday Health Consumer. in a statement. “Today, it is a multifaceted suite of products and services uniquely designed to help her solve issues and better thrive across her work, life and family goals while simultaneously connecting her to a savvy, supportive and optimistic community.” ‘You can expect the same commitment’ Everyday Health Group has an audience of over 67 million health consumers and over 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians. Its mission is to create better clinical and health outcomes by providing highly relevant information, data, and analytics. Everyday Health Group’s portfolio includes Everyday Health, and DailyOM, as well as medical professional brands such as MedPage Today and Health eCareers. TheSkimm will now be under Everyday Health Groups consumer portfolio, operating as a standalone brand, while keeping its current branding and staff, reported Axios. You can expect the same commitment to trusted, relevant information and even more Skimm experiences, said Zakin and Weisberg in the Daily Skimm newsletter. They echoed this sentiment on social media, assuring followers that theSkimms evolution would bring fresh experiences without straying from its core values. We will continue on with theSkimm in a way that allows us to be closer to building the brand. Get ready for the next chapter and more of what you love, the cofounders wrote in an Instagram post.
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The NBAs Boston Celtics are used to packing their arena with a sea of green. Now, the companys owners, the Grousbeck family, are seeing green. Thats because the franchise has reportedly been sold for $6.1 billion, per ESPN, to a group led by Bill Chisholm, managing partner at private equity firm Symphony Technology Group. The sale would be the largest for a sports franchise in North American history, beating out the sale of the NFLs Washington Commanders franchise two years ago, which tallied $6.05 billion. The sale would still need to be approved by the NBA Board of Governors. Fast Company has reached out to both the Celtics and Symphony Technology Group for comment. The sale comes on the heels of the Celtics winning the NBA championship last year, the 18th in franchise history. It was announced that the Grousbeck family, the franchises primary owner, would seek to sell the team last summer as well. It bought the team in 2002 for $360 million, and if the $6.1 billion sale does go through, the family would see a roughly 1,700% return on investment. The sale also shows that sports franchise values are steadily increasing. In 2023, both the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks were also sold, for $4 billion and $3.5 billion respectively. At the tail end of that year, the Dallas Mavericks were also sold for $3.5 billion. The $6.1 billion valuation would put the Celtics near the upper echelon of North American sports franchises. The most recent rankings from Forbes, which regularly publishes a list of the most valuable sports teams, ranks the NFLs Dallas Cowboys at the top with an estimated value of more than $10 billion. Two other NBA franchises are among the top five: The Golden State Warriors are valued at $8.8 billion, and the New York Knicks are valued at $7.5 billion.
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Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Companys weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Nvidias Jensen Huang: The world got DeepSeek totally wrong At Nvidias GTC developer event in San Jose this week, CEO Jensen Huang called it AIs Super Bowl. Indeed, Nvidia is the chip supplier of the AI boom, and arguably the most influential (and certainly most profitable) company in the growing AI industry. As it does every year, the company used Huangs keynote to announce its next-generation chips, which will power the training and operation of the AI models of the near future. Huang introduced a new platform called Vera Rubin, which includes Nvidias first custom-designed CPU, Vera, and two new Rubin GPUs. (The platform is named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who discovered evidence of dark matter.) Nvidia says Vera is twice as fast as the Arm-based CPU in last years Blackwell platform. Together, Vera and Rubin deliver more than double the inference performance of Blackwell. Huang also revealed Blackwell Ultra, a more powerful version of the current flagship GPU, with increased compute and memory. Its expected to launch in the second half of 2025. These platformsespecially Vera Rubinare designed to boost performance during inference, the real-time reasoning AI models perform to generate answers. Huang stressed the growing need for chips that can rapidly process and store massive amounts of data during inference. In a pointed comment, he said almost the entire world got it wrong about the DeepSeek phenomenon, referencing the Chinese startup that claimed it could train top-tier models with fewer, weaker GPUs. The amount of computation we need as a result of agentic AI, as a result of reasoning, is easily 100 times more than we thought we needed this time last year, he said. In other words, inference demand is set to soarand with it, demand for Nvidia hardware. Huang also updated Project Digits, a desktop AI platform for developers, researchers, and students. It will ship in two versions: a compact GTX Spark, and a larger GTX Station capable of running more complex models. Nvidia says both will reach the market this summer. As Nvidias role in generative AI deepens, its pushing beyond infrastructure and into the application layer. To that end, the company announced a new family of open-source, mid-size reasoning models called Nemotron. Built on Metas Llama, these models can run on the Spark or Station hardware or in the cloud. While not the most advanced, theyre optimized for lighter enterprise tasks and run efficiently on Nvidia chipsoffering yet another incentive for companies to stay within the Nvidia ecosystem. Big AI gives the Trump administration pointers on its AI Action Plan As the U.S. government rethinks its approach to artificial intelligence, the emerging consensus around this second Trump administration is clear: minimal oversight, maximum freedom for industry. The working theory is that Trump and Vice President JD Vance would take a hands-off approach to AI regulation, favoring rapid innovation over safety mandates. Both Trump and Vance have emphasized the need for U.S. AI companies to operate without transparency mandates or safety guidelines, arguing that this freedom is essential for global leadership. The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety, Vance said during a February speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. On day one, the administration rescinded the Biden-era AI safety and transparency guidelines, which were largely voluntary. The Trump team is reportedly developing its own AI policy. As part of that effort, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) solicited public input on an AI Action Plan. The plan, according to the OSTP request, aims to define priority policy actions needed to sustain and enhance America’s AI dominance while avoiding unnecessarily burdensome requirements on private-sector innovation. Comments were accepted through March 15, and several major AI companiesOpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Googleposted their submissions publicly. Across the board, these companies warned that overly aggressive safety rules could cause the U.S. to fall behind China in the AI race. Most supported maintaining export bans on advanced AI chips to adversarial nations like China. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google also called for protecting the Copyright Acts fair use provision, which allows AI labs to train models on publicly available data. Still, some comments signaled a more nuanced view of risk. Anthropic urged the government to create mechanisms for assessing whether private-sector models could pose national security threats, and suggested opening dedicated communication channels between intelligence agencies and major AI labs. Interestingly, OpenAI seems to favor a ban on models from Chinese startup DeepSeek, citing national security concerns similar to those that led to the U.S. ban on Huawei equipment. DeepSeek faces requirements under Chinese law to comply with demands for user data and uses it to train more capable systems for the CCPs use, the company said. While an AI Action Plan may be written, companies arent expecting strict safety regulations to followespecially under the current administration and Congress. Yet as AI systems grow more powerful, so do the risks of unregulated misuse, potentially on a large scale. And as Wendy Gonzalez, CEO of the AI training data company Sama, points out, a lack of guardrails may actually be bad for business in the long run. The comparison to vehicle safety standards is a good example, she tells Fast Company. Just as we don’t view seatbelts as over-regulation that stifles automotive innovation, thoughtful AI guardrails protect stakeholders while enabling progress. Superhuman is a case study in the right way to integrate AI into apps Much of the post-ChatGPT AI boom has focused on models themselvesbut increasingly, the spotlight is shifting to how AI is applied and experienced in real-world apps. Someapps are entirely new, made possible only by generative AI. Others, like Superhuman, stand out for how thoughtfully theyve integrated the technology into existing products. Superhuman has been around since 2014, and the addition of AI features hasnt changed Superhumans spare and sleek design very much. Its creators have integrated AI features in a purposeful and understated way. Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra gave me a run-through of some of the newer AI features when we met at the HumanX conference last week. The AI works like a behind-the-scenes assistant, aware of the context and content of your inbox. For long or complex threads, it precomputes summaries. It can draft replies in your writing style, prompt you to respond to urgent or high-priority messages, and learn contacts communication patterns to time your replies for maximum visibility. It also helps organize your inbox by automatically routing less important emailslike marketing, social updates, or cold pitchesinto separate folders. Vohra claims Superhuman can save users up to four hours per week. One internal study by a major consulting firm found it saved partners 3.3 hours weekly, sped up response times by 3.6 hours, and increased email throughput by 60%. At $30$40 a month, Superhuman isnt cheap. But for professionals overwhelmed by email, its AI-powered productivity boost may be worth the price. More AI coverage from Fast Company: The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025 AI data centers run hot. These lightweight motors keep them cool with less power Hollywood warns about AI industrys push to change copyright law The rise of the AI manager Want exclusive reporting and trend analysis on technology, business innovation, future of work, and design? Sign up for Fast Company Premium.
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