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An identity verification AI startup is having all employees try vibe coding
If you work for a San Francisco startup and don't know how to code, you could soon be asked to get creative with vibe coding. Checkr, an AI-powered background check company, gave Business Insider a glimpse of how employees are actually using AI.
Why has Elon Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup?
SpaceX's acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questioned The acquisition of xAI by SpaceX is a typical Elon Musk deal: big numbers backed by big ambition. As well as extending “the…
An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax
The war on California's proposed ‘Billionaire's Tax' is getting weird. This week, amid ongoing rancor from tech elites over the much maligned bill, it became apparent that someone was planning a so-called “March for…
Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors
Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It had courted Ford as a potential investor, but Jia Yueting, the founder of rival EV startup Faraday Future, had quietly amassed around a 30% stake and…
Two-day Coastal Startup Festival in Mangaluru from March 28
A two-day Coastal Startup Fest – 2026 will be held in Mangaluru from March 28. A joint initiative of Atal Incubation Centre, Nitte, K-Tech Innovation Hub, and the NITTE–Government of Karnataka Centre of Excellence in Aquamarine…
Exclusive | Hobbit-Inspired Startup Becomes First New Bank Greenlighted by Trump 2.0
The Trump administration has greenlighted its first new bank, and it is a startup that takes its name from a mountain where dwarves stored their treasure in J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit.” Erebor Bank, which will cater to startups and…
Vista Equity Partners and Intel to lead investment in AI chip startup SambaNova, sources say
(Refile with company name in the headline in one word without the space) Feb 6 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners is leading a new funding round of over $350 million in artificial intelligence chip startup…
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India Formalises Deep-Tech Startup Definition, Extends Recognition to 20 Years
The Indian government has, for the first time, formally defined deep-tech startups, expanding the scope of benefits available to research-intensive ventures. Under a revised framework notified by the Department for Promotion of Industry and…
Crypto Startup Erebor Becomes First US Bank of Trump's Term
Erebor Bank, a crypto‑friendly financial startup backed by tech investors including Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale, has become the first new national bank chartered in the US during President Trump's second term, the Wall Street Journal…
AI video startup boasts it 'ended' jobs, gets backlash
The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused…
Cyprus Business News: startups, tourism, shipping, digital euro, vehicle registrations
Codina wrote that the Southern European ecosystem “continues to steadily advance and secure its niche” and, although it does not yet rival the continent's largest hubs, it increasingly supports entrepreneurial ambition and…
Exclusive: Startup Lyzr.ai launches app builder aimed at moving agents to production in volume
Lyzr Inc., a startup that builds tools for deploying artificial intelligence agents in enterprises, will launch a new agentic application builder next week that it says lets nontechnical users create multi-agent systems to automate complex business…
An Analysis Just Found Something Extremely Unflattering About What Happens to Users of Prediction Markets
After an analyst found that users are losing money faster on sites like Polymarket than on traditional sports gambling platforms, the US's largest prediction market Kalshi hit back with a decidedly unusual response. As Bloomberg reports, the…
Japan's Crypto Industry Faces Critical Test Ahead of Snap Election
As Japan heads to the polls on Sunday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is staking her political future on translating approval ratings of 60-80% into a parliamentary majority that could accelerate crypto reforms. Takaichi has turned the election into…
Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
Talk about return on investment. Amazon's bet on Anthropic looks like an enormous win, at least on paper. The cloud giant disclosed on Friday that it holds $45.8 billion of convertible notes and $14.8 billion of nonvoting preferred stock in the AI…
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