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The AI gold rush is driving students to pause college for startup bets
'It feels like a return to the early 2000s.' That's how Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University, described what he sees as a growing trend on campus: students pausing their degrees to join early-stage AI startups. Bloom said…
AI Legal Startup Manifest Raises Funds at $750 Million Valuation
Manifest OS, a startup selling AI software to lawyers, has sealed a $60 million Series A funding round valuing it at $750 million. Investors in the round include Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, First Round Capital and Quiet Capital, according to a…
Founder of Shark Tank-backed startup Scholly sues his acquirer Sallie Mae
When Chris Gray sold his Shark Tank-backed scholarship search startup Scholly to Sallie Mae in 2023, he thought he had it all. Now he's suing the student loan giant for wrongful termination and alleging that it's selling the data his app collected…
BCI startup Neurable looks to license its 'mind-reading' tech for consumer wearables
BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person's head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech…
Deep Tech: The Key To India's Next Generation Of Unicorn Startups
Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan is calling for a shift in focus for Indian startups, urging them to prioritise deep technology and advanced manufacturing to secure India's strategic autonomy and fuel the next wave of billion-dollar…
Chinese Billionaire Overhauls AI Startup After Warning on Manus
The fallout from Meta Platforms Inc. 's controversial acquisition of Manus is prompting one tech founder to erect strict walls between his Chinese and US businesses, calling it a regrettable but necessary template for navigating geopolitical…
A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers
Startups using AI agents have a new problem to worry about: 'vibe deletion.' Jer Crane, the founder of PocketOS, a startup that provides software for car rental companies, said in a Friday X post that a Cursor AI agent accidentally deleted the…
Blocking of Meta's AI startup buy raises risk for cross-border China tech deals
China's blocking of Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus will heighten the risk for global investors looking to invest in advanced tech firms with ties to the country amid Beijing's expansion of jurisdictional reach to safeguard strategic assets.
OpenAI-Linked Stocks Slump on Report of Startup Missing Targets
Shares in OpenAI partners such as SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. are falling after the Wall Street Journal reported that the AI startup recently failed to meet targets for sales and new users, reviving worries about spending ahead of tech…
Microsoft, OpenAI change terms of deal so startup can court Amazon and others
Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiated a pact that let Microsoft exclusively sell the ChatGPT creator's artificial intelligence models, clearing the way for the startup to forge new deals with rivalsto the software and enterprise giant, including…
NEA's Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI
As a partner at New Enterprise Associates, Tiffany Luck invests in the AI application layer and B2B SaaS. She began on the consumer side at early-stage companies including Lot18 and pioneered the early push of CPG e-commerce at Amazon long before…
Meta Thought It Had a $2 Billion Deal for AI Startup Manus - Then China Said No
Meta and Manus were ready to stroll down the aisle together, but with the stroke of a pen, China ruined their wedding. China's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta and Manus to unwind their $2 billion acquisition in a brief…
I quit investment banking and now run a startup. I work just as much, but the hours feel totally different.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew Meng, 29, who worked in investment banking at Wells Fargo until January 2021 and now runs a startup, Yorby AI. Business Insider has confirmed his previous employment at Wells Fargo. The…
Exchange startup Liquid raises $18 million Series A for leveraged trading on stocks, crypto, commodities, prediction markets, and private secondaries
Some of crypto's most lucrative businesses have always been its exchanges, but crypto-based exchanges are coming to be less reliant on crypto trading. Liquid, which launched as a hub for crypto-based derivatives in 2025, closed an $18 million…
Startup targets radio segment of Golden Dome missile-defense network
WASHINGTON — A small startup is aiming to supply a component that could become critical to the Pentagon's missile-defense architecture in space: compact radios capable of rapidly moving targeting data between satellites and interceptors. The…
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