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IT Setup For Startups: A Guide For Small Businesses
Kathleen Hurley is the founder of Sage Inc., a tech company that offers SMB businesses infrastructure solutions and next-gen technology. Setting up IT infrastructure for a new small business isn't one-size-fits-all. Understanding what you need…
Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When most people need to go number one, they find the nearest bathroom and don't give half a thought to what happens to their pee once it disappears down the toilet or urinal. It turns…
Hollywood Legend Turned Startup Investor Jeffrey Katzenberg On Where He's Placing His AI Bets
When Jeffrey Katzenberg sold DreamWorks Animation in 2016, he knew his next venture would be technology related. Soon after the sale, he teamed up with former NEA principal Sujay Jaswa in 2016 to found WndrCo, a holding company and venture capital…
Exclusive: Performance marketing startup Scowtt raises $12M
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AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
What does it take to become the most successful AI surveillance company in 2025? If you're anything like Flock, the startup selling automatic license plate readers and facial recognition tech to cops, you don't really need much AI at all —…
Is AI killing the Classic Startup Model? A New Theory Emerges
For two decades, Silicon Valley has operated on the ‘zero to one' playbook, a business theory obsessed with value extraction, creating centralized monopolies, and capturing user attention. But in the age of autonomous systems, this classic…
6 Game-Changing AR Moves in 2025 That Meta And Startups Just Revealed
Surprise greets 6 AR shifts in 2025. The pace of change accelerated this week as major players reprioritized bets and made strategic buys. The New York Times, TechCrunch and The Verge report fresh moves – budget cuts at Meta, an acquisition…
As big brands flood the podcast ad space, startups are refining strategies to stand out
With fierce competition moving in from bigger companies, brands are trying to calibrate their podcast advertising strategy to fit today's listener habits. Acast, a podcast monetization company whose network includes popular shows like “The…
Tether Backs Italian Humanoid-Robotics Firm as AI Push Builds
Stablecoin giant Tether has joined a €70 million ($81.6 million) funding round for Italy-based Generative Bionics, a humanoid-robotics startup developing industrial robots built using research from the Italian Institute of Technology. The…
Former KATV Meteorologist, Veteran Storm Chaser to Launch Startup Weather Platform
After the deadly March 31 tornadoes ripped across Arkansas in 2023, meteorologist James Bryant was shocked to hear from a lot of Arkansans that they had no idea the storms were coming. The realization was one of the first inklings of the Arkansas…
Investors Are Getting Picky About Asian Fintech
Investors have been cooling on Southeast Asia, what is holding them up? Asia used to be the hottest region in the world for fintech funding, but that is no longer the case. In fact, funding fell 36% in Southeast Asia through the first nine months…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AI scaling 'must be pushed to the maximum
There's a debate rippling through Silicon Valley: How far can scaling laws take the technology? Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, whose company just released Gemini 3 to widespread acclaim, has made it clear where he stands on the issue. 'The…
The return of 'YOLO': The 2010s meme is back and shaping the AI industry
The term 'YOLO' was cool once, made so in 2011 by Drake in his hit song, 'The Motto.' Then it slipped into the domain of the unhip and out-of-touch. This time, it's being used by the AI vanguard to describe the state of the industry, which is a tad…
The Mischievous Ex-Bankers Behind 'Industry'
Clwb Ifor Bach, a night club in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, is the kind of venue whose sticky floors hold generational memories of first intoxications. One evening in July, about a hundred young people lined up outside—girls in crop tops…
IBM to acquire Confluent for $11B as it seeks to bolster its data offerings
IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and deploy AI technology. The tech giant said it would…
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