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The hiring spree comes as the company shifts more aggressively toward enterprise sales and tries to regain momentum against Anthropic and Google, and as the company eyes a possible IPO within the next 12 months.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026 -
Subsequently, the filmmaker became enamored with airplanes and transferred that same fascination onto Lil Ant, who eyes the planes overhead with palpable yearning and, at one point, shoplifts a toy plane from a store.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2026
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Nia just stares at her, as perilous and unblinking as the sun, and doesn’t say a word.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, Lori, a young Black woman hired under false pretenses as an assistant, stares mutely.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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