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Powerhouse agency CAA enters the high-stakes venture capital world
CAA is entering the high-stakes world of venture capital, where for every winning bet there's five times as many losers. In 2020, the powerhouse agency dipped a toe into investing via a partnership with VC firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA)…
Inside 1mind's $40M AI Bet, and The Superhuman Vision Behind It
1Mind founder Amanda Kahlow with her daughter, pictured alongside investor Cassie Young of Primary Ventures Like many great entrepreneurs, Amanda Kahlow's journey started on a whim. She was 21 years old when she sold a jeweler a kiosk she didn't…
Meet the longtime biz partner of Ilhan Omar's husband as questions swirl over her skyrocketing net worth
A longtime Democratic operative who worked for top party figures before jumping into private ventures with the now-husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Tim Mynett, is back in the spotlight as swindling allegations resurface and Congress…
Sam Altman's make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future?
Sam Altman has claimed over the years that the advancement of AI could solve climate change, cure cancer, create a benevolent superintelligence beyond human comprehension, provide a tutor for every student, take over nearly half of the tasks in the…
The chaotic '$50bn' start-up where relationship drama burst the bubble
At a tense all-hands meeting last week, Mira Murati, the chief executive of artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Thinking Machines, had bad news. Barret Zoph, the co-founder and technology chief of the Silicon Valley start-up, was leaving.
2026 Is The Year Of Balance Sheet Engineering In The Battery Storage Market
In the first quarter of 2026, the global energy storage market is no longer a playground for visionaries... it is a graveyard for the undercapitalized. The data is rough. As of March 2025, QuantumScape sat on $860 million in cash against a trailing…
Major college football program's latest hire sparks $5.8 billion NIL buzz
Ohio State's 2025 season ended in an abrupt College Football Playoff quarterfinal defeat, a 24–14 loss to Miami that halted their national title defense. The Buckeyes won 11 consecutive games during the regular season, posted dominant…
Silicon Valley sounds the alarm on deadly Minneapolis shooting. 'And it's only a matter of time before they show up in force here in the Bay Area'
The tech community is speaking out after federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday. It marked the third shooting by a federal agent in the city this month and the…
I Feel Sick'-After Buying Their First Home, They Instantly Saw Everything That Was Wrong. Uneven Floors, Bad Cabinets And Painted-Shut Windows
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Buying a home is supposed to be a dream come true. But for one Reddit user, the day after closing turned into a wave of panic and regret.
Crypto Startup Entropy To Shut Down, Refund Investors
Written by Brian Quarmby,Contributor Reviewed by Rahul Nambiampurath,Staff Editor Entropy founder and CEO Tux Pacific says that, after four years and multiple pivots, the project was unable to find a scalable business model. Cointelegraph in your…
Nigeria emerges fastest-growing agritech market hub - The Nation Newspaper
Nigeria has emerged the fastest growing in agritech through state-led reform, according to compiled industry estimates and global agrifood technology reports. Israel's domestic agritech sector was valued at about $65 million in 2020 and expanded to…
This founder cracked firefighting -- now he's creating an AI gold mine
Sunny Sethi, founder of HEN Technologies, doesn't sound like someone who's disrupted an industry that has remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. His company builds fire nozzles — specifically, nozzles that it says increase suppression…
Editorial: Trump and China make a welcome TikTok deal. There's still plenty to worry about.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nearly two years ago, this page endorsed bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by Illinois congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, to force the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest the wildly popular app's platform…
AI Demand Leads to Boom in Memory and Storage Stocks
That's according to a Sunday (Jan. 25) report from the Financial Times (FT), which noted that while data storage companies had long been considered a less glamorous part of the IT hardware space, their stocks have jumped in recent months as…
Power Trading Startup Enechain Raises $32 Million for Expansion
Enechain, a startup in Japan's growing power market, raised 5.05 billion yen ($31.9 million) to expand its business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company conducted an additional funding round with investors including US-based…
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