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A $9 billion company. A revolutionary blood-testing machine. And a founder who told the world she was changing medicine.
Then one journalist started asking questions.
Elizabeth Holmes was 19 when she dropped out of Stanford and founded Theranos. Her promise was extraordinary: hundreds of blood tests using just a few drops from a finger prick.
Investors believed her. Walgreens partnered with her. Major figures from American politics and business joined her board.
At its peak, Theranos was valued at approximately $9 billion. Holmes became one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated founders.
But in October 2015, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation that threatened to destroy everything.
The report revealed that Theranos was performing most of its tests using conventional laboratory machines, not its revolutionary Edison devices.
Holmes had a chance to respond.
The very next day, she appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer.
He confronted her with the allegations. She pushed back, arguing that the reporting had taken the company’s testing practices out of context.
Then she delivered a line that would become one of the most memorable quotes from the Theranos scandal:
“First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.”
But the questions didn’t stop.
Regulators uncovered serious problems with the company’s testing practices. Walgreens ended its partnership. Theranos eventually shut down.
In January 2022, a jury found Holmes guilty of four counts of fraud involving investors. She was acquitted of the patient-related fraud charges.
In November, she was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison.
The company once valued at $9 billion was gone.
And the woman once compared to Steve Jobs became one of Silicon Valley’s most infamous founders.
But here’s the question:
Was Elizabeth Holmes a visionary who became consumed by her own ambition, or did she build an entire empire on promises she knew she couldn’t keep?
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Jensen Huang literally explained how he handled having the Donald Trump on speed dial.
Bloomberg's Emily Chang asked him in October what happens when his views differ from Trump's.
> His answer: "We don't have to agree on anything."
His job, he says, is to inform the president about decisions that touch Americans and the world.
Then she pushed on the word Trump prefers, super intelligence. Huang agreed that "artificial" sounds fake. Then he shrugged it off.
He said all of this on October 14.
Four weeks later he was out. Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after admitting an affair with a woman U.S. officials reportedly suspect of spying for China.
The man he informed did not walk away. Trump said Huang called him, and floated Tim Cook as the next Nvidia CEO.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went after his own government instead.
He spent years informing the president. Now Washington wants to be informed about him.
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A KID ON BAIL IN A TRAVELODGE COST ROCKSTAR $5 MILLION WITH AN AMAZON FIRE STICK. GTA 6 COMES OUT IN 6 DAYS
His name is Arion Kurtaj, from Oxford. He was 17 and part of Lapsus$, the group that also got into Nvidia and Uber
Police had already taken his laptop. He was out on bail for other hacks, staying at a Travelodge under police protection
So he used the hotel TV, a Fire Stick and his phone
In September 2022, 90 clips of unfinished GTA 6 showed up on a fan forum. Rockstar later told the court the hack cost $5 million to recover from, plus thousands of hours of staff time
In 2023 a jury found he did it. Doctors said he wasn't fit to stand trial, so the judge sent him to a secure hospital with no end date
This summer he got moved to a regular prison, and his new trial was set to start November 9 at Woolwich Crown Court
10 days before GTA 6 comes out
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SHE WENT IN FOR HER 10,000 MILE SERVICE. THEY CHECKED EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE OIL
It's a service bay full of white vans and red tool chests, and her whole forearm is open metal from elbow to wrist. A tech in work gloves shines a light into her hand and she just watches him do it, kind of amused.
Then she's standing with one foot on a little stand while a girl in a maroon shirt crouches by her knee with a little scanner, and the joint lights up blue. Last stop is her chest. The panel's open, it's all circuit boards in there, and there's a big round fan glowing right next to it. She looks pretty happy about the whole thing honestly.
Price: $94,000
Under the hood:
- Arm: open forearm frame, serviced from the elbow down
- Knee: metal joint that lights up blue during a scan
- Chest: removable panel over stacked circuit boards
- Cooling: one big round fan with a light in the middle
my car service never looks this calm
Ethan Cole retweeted
MY GROK BOT BOUGHT A COIN WHILE I WAS ASLEEP. THEN IT WOKE ME UP TO SELL IT.
5:40 AM: "$VOLTRA is running. wake up."
$240 → $4,911 by morning.
What it did before the alarm:
→ dodged $BLEEDO (−88% in 24h)
→ $GLOBBY pump: +$146.88
→ $MAPLO pump: +$824.58
→ aped $VOLTRA at 4:58 AM, checks 6/6
Half asleep, I watched the ladder:
TP1 +300% ✅
TP2 +700% ✅
"+1,000% and climbing. slide to sell 👇"
One swipe. Sold at +1,318%.
That swipe made $2,237.41. Almost half of the whole night.
Morning recap:
$240 starting balance.
$4,911 final balance.
+$4,671 profit.
20.5× the starting amount.
The full night is compressed into 24 seconds.
Slide to sell or snooze?
Ethan Cole retweeted
A BEAR IS COOKING SALMON NOW. HAS AI GONE TOO FAR?
3M views. 70K likes. 20 seconds.
Someone made an AI video of a bear casually preparing a salmon steak like it's just another day in the kitchen
A literal bear. Cooking fish.
And somehow 3 million people showed up to watch
→ the concept is ridiculous, but you understand it instantly
→ putting a wild animal in an ordinary human situation makes the scene even funnier
→ cooking videos are already addictive. apparently adding a bear makes them better
This is the kind of absurd scene I'd love to experiment with using AI video tools in @Picsart
we've officially reached the point where wildlife is making cooking content
at this point i'm just waiting for a bear to open a restaurant
Ethan Cole retweeted
USMAN NURMAGOMEDOV SLAPPED MERAB DVALISHVILI IN A HOTEL LOBBY. 48 HOURS LATER THE INTERNET MADE THE VERSION WHERE MERAB WINS
131K likes · 3,522 comments · 31 seconds
this is an AI parody, none of it happened like this
what actually happened
→ Wednesday night, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. Merab Dvalishvili is giving an interview in the lobby before RAF Abu Dhabi
→ Usman Nurmagomedov walks up and slaps him. Usman is Khabib Nurmagomedov's cousin and Umar Nurmagomedov's brother, the same Umar that Merab beat for the UFC belt in January 2025
→ Usman's crew jumps in. Merab and his 21 year old friend Saba Lazishvili both end up with cuts on their faces
→ Abu Dhabi Police arrest 10 people
→ 6 from Usman's side get 6 months in prison, AED 300,000 fines and deportation. 2 more get the same for filming it
→ Merab and Saba get AED 50,000 fines each and walk out of detention
→ Dana White: "What a bunch of f*ng idiots"
the AI version gives the fans the ending they wanted. Merab in the beige hoodie, a circle of guys in black, and one by one they hit the marble floor until he's the last one standing
why it works
→ it landed while the whole MMA world was searching the story
→ the setting is a real looking hotel lobby at night. warm lamps, marble, gold panels, a buffet counter in the back
→ the camera is a shaky phone like a guest filmed it, so your brain buys it in the first second
→ every exchange is one beat, 2 to 3 seconds, a punch and a body on the floor, nothing drags
the takeaway: when a fight story breaks, make the ending the fans wanted to see
Seedance 2.5 handles full fight choreography like this, try it in Picsart picsart.go.link/dnDXM
Saturday Merab fights Marlon Moraes and Saba debuts against Urijah Faber at RAF Abu Dhabi, in the spot Umar was supposed to take
who walks out with their hand raised?
Ethan Cole retweeted
THE DELIVERY GUY WAS A GOLDEN RETRIEVER AND HE ATE PART OF MY ORDER
→ A dog in a red cap and a delivery jacket opens the door with a McDonald's box
→ He licks his lips, begs with both paws, then hops on a yellow scooter
→ Rides off down a rainy street with the bag strapped to his back
→ The box is open: two burgers with bites missing and a pile of fries
180K likes and 26M views on the source
Every frame is AI, and the part that sells it is how real the small things feel: the wet pavement, the cap sliding as he turns his head, the paws gripping the handlebars, the crumbs on his face.
Pets doing human jobs is the easiest idea in the world and the hardest to make look this natural, and this one holds for 29 seconds.
You can try Seedance 2.5 in @Picsart and make your own
Which job should the dog take next
Ethan Cole retweeted
The temperature’s dropping, energy bills are rising, but Rachel Reeves might cut £6 BILLION meant to make homes warmer. Meanwhile, oil and gas companies could get billions in tax breaks. Think that's outrageous? Sign the petition: 38d.gs/shcb
Ethan Cole retweeted
JPMORGAN SPENDS $2 BILLION A YEAR ON AI. AND JAMIE DIMON JUST SAID OUT LOUD WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR JOB
the CEO of the biggest bank in America sat down at a conference in March 2026 and casually listed where AI already runs inside JPMorgan:
risk. fraud. marketing. underwriting. note taking. idea generation. error reporting.
600 use cases. 50 of them he calls "important"
this isn't some pilot project. JPM's tech budget for 2026 is $19.8B, and AI now sits in the same bucket as data centers and payments, stuff the bank literally can't switch off
then he said the quiet part
the real risk isn't that AI is bad. it's that it gets deployed so fast people don't have time to adjust. too many layoffs. and he called that fear "legitimate"
read that again. the guy running a $4T bank is NOT telling you "relax, nothing changes"
his fix: retraining, relocation, high schools and colleges reskilling people. even people who are 40 or 50
here's my take, and it's not the doom version
a government reskilling plan takes years. committees, programs, budgets. you don't have years
but you've got one thing a giant bank doesn't: nobody has to approve your budget. you can start tonight
look at his list again. notes, research, ideas, catching errors, marketing. that's not "banker stuff", that's what basically every job is made of. and you can hand every single one of those to a $20/month tool right now
JPMorgan pays billions to work "faster, quicker, cheaper". you can get a real piece of that for the price of a lunch
the people who get hurt here won't be the ones without degrees. it'll be the ones waiting for someone else to retrain them
40 or 50 doesn't matter, Dimon said it himself. what matters is whether you adjusted early or the change just happened to you
pick one task from his list this week. give it to AI. see what happens
which one are you starting with?
Ethan Cole retweeted
A TV star told police two men attacked him in Chicago, shouted slurs and put a noose around his neck. The city stood behind him. Then two brothers said he paid them $3,500 to do it. When the judge sent him to jail, he stood up and shouted at the courtroom.
His name is Jussie Smollett, star of the hit show Empire. January 2019: he says he was jumped at 2 a.m. in freezing Chicago. Politicians and celebrities rush to support him.
Within weeks, police arrest two brothers he knew from the set. They say he planned it, rehearsed it and paid them with a check.
At trial he swore he was the victim. The jury didn't buy it. Guilty on five counts of lying to police.
March 2022. The judge gives him 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation, $120,106 in restitution to the city and the maximum $25,000 fine.
And then he stood up. "I am not suicidal. I am innocent. If anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself."
He served six days before he was released pending appeal. In November 2024, the Illinois Supreme Court threw out his conviction on a legal technicality. It never said he was innocent.
So here's what splits people: did a man who faked a hate crime walk free on paperwork, or did the system go after a celebrity twice for the same thing?
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I would have acted differently
Hey @grok, what sentence would you give this teenager if you were the judge?
A 14-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head by two boys she considered friends. They left her in a ditch, believing she would never be found alive.
But she survived.
Her name was Deserae Turner. And what she said to one of her attackers in court a year later made him break down in tears.
On February 16, 2017, 16-year-old Colter Peterson and his friend Jayzon Decker lured Deserae to a dry canal in Utah.
The plan was to kill her.
Peterson shot her in the back of the head at close range. Then the boys took her belongings and left.
Deserae lay there for nearly eight hours before two women found her.
She survived, but the bullet remained lodged in her skull. The damage left her with permanent disabilities. She struggled to walk, see, eat and even think clearly.
On February 1, 2018, Deserae came face to face with Peterson at his sentencing hearing.
She was sitting in a wheelchair. He was standing before the judge in handcuffs.
As she spoke, Peterson began to tremble and cry.
Then she looked directly at him and said:
“You shouldn’t have messed with me, because I am tougher than a bullet.”
But she wasn’t finished.
“Good luck in prison, and remember that because of you, my life is a prison.”
Then came the words that made the courtroom even heavier:
“Welcome to hell. I have been here for a year now.”
Peterson was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. His accomplice, Jayzon Decker, also received 15 years to life for helping plan the attack.
Two boys tried to take her life. But when she finally faced them in court, she was the one who had the last words.
Ethan Cole retweeted
BRO GOT ON HIS KNEES FOR A F*CKING ROBOT IN PUBLIC 💀😭
A grown man in a suit literally drops to his knees and starts touching a female humanoid’s inner thighs at a robotics expo.
She’s standing there completely unbothered while everyone pulls out their phones to film. And somehow, nobody thinks this is weird. 🤖
IS THIS STILL A ROBOT DEMONSTRATION OR HAVE WE OFFICIALLY LOST OUR MINDS? 💀
Ethan Cole retweeted
Stephen A. Smith said he cannot understand how the Clintons and Obamas left office worth over $100 million. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas who grew up broke. Obama was a community organizer. Presidential salary never went above $450,000.
Clintons went from about $1.3 million before office to $120 million. Obamas went from $1.3 million to $70 million.
He asked how you enter to serve the people and leave exponentially richer. What do you think happens to that money.
Ethan Cole retweeted
In 1994 Jeff Bezos’s parents gave him $300,000 and he told them they would probably lose all of it. His wife MacKenzie quit her job, moved across the country with him and worked out of their garage. 25 years later Amazon was worth almost $1 trillion, his affair hit the tabloids, and she walked away with $38 billion. She has since given away $26 billion of it.
In the video below, a 35-year-old Bezos sits down with Regis Philbin in December 1999, right after TIME named him Person of the Year. He talks about the $300,000, the garage and losing $350 million a year. Wait for Regis to turn to the audience and find his wife.
1993. Jeff and MacKenzie get married. She’s a writer, he works on Wall Street.
1994. They quit, move to Seattle and start Amazon in a garage. He tells his parents: “You’re very likely to lose all of this money.”
1999. TIME Person of the Year. On live TV, Regis asks MacKenzie if she was with him in the garage. “I sure was. It was great.”
January 2019. After 25 years of marriage, they announce their divorce. The National Enquirer publishes his private texts to Lauren Sánchez.
July 2019. The divorce is final. MacKenzie gets 4% of Amazon, about $38 billion. Jeff keeps 75% of their shares and all the voting control.
2019 to now. MacKenzie Scott gives away $26 billion, more than most billionaires give in their lifetimes.
2025. Jeff marries Lauren Sánchez in Venice. The wedding reportedly cost around $50 million.
$300,000: his parents’ bet in 1994.
$38 billion: what she walked away with.
$26 billion: what she’s given away since.
She was in the garage when nobody believed in it. Did she earn every dollar of that $38 billion, or did she get lucky marrying the right guy?
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"We thought it was funny." That's how Sarah Boone described zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase, the night he suffocated inside it.
In the video below, Boone sits on the witness stand at her own murder trial and calmly walks the jury through zipping him in, how they laughed about it, and why she decided to film him.
It was February 2020 in Winter Park, Florida. Boone and Jorge Torres had been drunkenly playing hide-and-seek when she zipped him into the suitcase.
On a video from her phone, Torres can be heard saying he can't breathe. Her reply: "That's what you get."
Prosecutors said she also hit him with a baseball bat and left him in the suitcase overnight. She reported his death the next day.
On the stand, she said she filmed him because at that moment she felt safe and could speak to him while he couldn't get out.
In October 2024, a jury convicted her of second-degree murder. On December 2, 2024, Judge Michael Kraynick sentenced Boone, 46, to life in prison.
2 videos. 11 minutes apart. 1 suitcase. Life.
What's more disturbing: the laughing while he begged, or the way she calmly retold it to the jury?
Ethan Cole retweeted
How do you like the idea of using @Grok as a judge? teapawt.org/EthanColeFiles/status/…
Hey @grok, what sentence would you give this teenager if you were the judge?
A 14-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head by two boys she considered friends. They left her in a ditch, believing she would never be found alive.
But she survived.
Her name was Deserae Turner. And what she said to one of her attackers in court a year later made him break down in tears.
On February 16, 2017, 16-year-old Colter Peterson and his friend Jayzon Decker lured Deserae to a dry canal in Utah.
The plan was to kill her.
Peterson shot her in the back of the head at close range. Then the boys took her belongings and left.
Deserae lay there for nearly eight hours before two women found her.
She survived, but the bullet remained lodged in her skull. The damage left her with permanent disabilities. She struggled to walk, see, eat and even think clearly.
On February 1, 2018, Deserae came face to face with Peterson at his sentencing hearing.
She was sitting in a wheelchair. He was standing before the judge in handcuffs.
As she spoke, Peterson began to tremble and cry.
Then she looked directly at him and said:
“You shouldn’t have messed with me, because I am tougher than a bullet.”
But she wasn’t finished.
“Good luck in prison, and remember that because of you, my life is a prison.”
Then came the words that made the courtroom even heavier:
“Welcome to hell. I have been here for a year now.”
Peterson was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. His accomplice, Jayzon Decker, also received 15 years to life for helping plan the attack.
Two boys tried to take her life. But when she finally faced them in court, she was the one who had the last words.
Ethan Cole retweeted
A US Army veteran who grew up as a ward of the state of Texas was waiting tables at Hooters and making $400 a day at modeling conventions when other girls told her the clubs in Las Vegas paid far more, and for the next 10 years almost every dollar she made on that stage went to 1 man.
Her name is Jennelle. Foster care, abuse as a kid, no family to call. She got into the Air Force, her brother-in-law talked her into the Army instead, and she came out injured and in pain. That is the profile. She says traffickers pick a target market the way a company does: people who want love and somewhere to belong.
The first thing he asked for was breast implants. Surgery in Scottsdale, back at work the same day. She calls that the start of his control. First she gave him half of what she made. Then all of it. He said he was investing it. Her quota at Spearmint Rhino was $2,000 to $3,000 a night. The Lamborghini and the house on Lake Las Vegas were handed to her as gifts, put in her name, and paid for with her own shifts.
When money was not enough to hold her, he used his hands. Concussions. Strangled until she passed out. Thrown down a marble staircase. A gun to her head at a church. He kept the women competing with each other so nobody compared notes. She stayed 7 years in Vegas anyway. Her words: “I was kept in a cage in my mind.”
What got her out was a test. She took an overdose and had a friend call him to say she was dead. He hung up. He never came to check.
She moved into an apartment in Henderson and stopped answering. He was later convicted of pimping and pandering after a police sting that started with younger women.
10 years of quotas, and he hung up on the news that she was dead.
Ethan Cole retweeted
Hey @grok, what sentence would you give this teenager if you were the judge?
A 14-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head by two boys she considered friends. They left her in a ditch, believing she would never be found alive.
But she survived.
Her name was Deserae Turner. And what she said to one of her attackers in court a year later made him break down in tears.
On February 16, 2017, 16-year-old Colter Peterson and his friend Jayzon Decker lured Deserae to a dry canal in Utah.
The plan was to kill her.
Peterson shot her in the back of the head at close range. Then the boys took her belongings and left.
Deserae lay there for nearly eight hours before two women found her.
She survived, but the bullet remained lodged in her skull. The damage left her with permanent disabilities. She struggled to walk, see, eat and even think clearly.
On February 1, 2018, Deserae came face to face with Peterson at his sentencing hearing.
She was sitting in a wheelchair. He was standing before the judge in handcuffs.
As she spoke, Peterson began to tremble and cry.
Then she looked directly at him and said:
“You shouldn’t have messed with me, because I am tougher than a bullet.”
But she wasn’t finished.
“Good luck in prison, and remember that because of you, my life is a prison.”
Then came the words that made the courtroom even heavier:
“Welcome to hell. I have been here for a year now.”
Peterson was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. His accomplice, Jayzon Decker, also received 15 years to life for helping plan the attack.
Two boys tried to take her life. But when she finally faced them in court, she was the one who had the last words.