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techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Family offices are clamoring for AI investments
Family offices are clamoring for AI investments
TechCrunch

For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple, according to Djoann Fal, a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth platform Atlas Capital in San Francisco. A family office…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
TechCrunch

These days, it's rare to hear of a startup founded in 2019, or one not focused on AI agents, raising a hefty Series C. But health insurance startup Angle Health announced Friday that it raised a $200 million Series C, alongside a $400 million…

theglobeandmail.com - John Rapley - Opinion: Carney did a lot this week, but it's what he didn't do that matters more
Opinion: Carney did a lot this week, but it's what he didn't do that matters more
The Globe and Mail

Please log in to bookmark this story. Create Free Account John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. If you build it, they will…

thehill.com - Miranda Nazzaro - More than 100 Democratic operatives urge party leaders to reject AI cash
More than 100 Democratic operatives urge party leaders to reject AI cash
The Hill

More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members are calling on the party's leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial intelligence super PAC Leading the Future (LTF) as the debate over AI safety and regulations…

deadline.com - Jesse Whittock - Gersh Signs Business & Culture Creator Jaclyn Johnson
Gersh Signs Business & Culture Creator Jaclyn Johnson
Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed Jaclyn Johnson, the business, investment and culture content creator. Johnson is known as the founder of Create & Cultivate, a women's global media and events platform that launched back in 2011 as a retreat for 25…

thehill.com - Julia Shapero - Silicon Valley Bank failure review finds Fed staff 'should have known' about risks
Silicon Valley Bank failure review finds Fed staff 'should have known' about risks
The Hill

A new review of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse found Federal Reserve supervisory staff “knew or should have known” about the institution's vulnerabilities, Michelle Bowman, the Fed's vice chair for supervision, said Friday. The…

thehindubusinessline.com - India moves closer to 'product nation' status as home-grown chips enter global markets: Ashwini Vaishnaw
India moves closer to 'product nation' status as home-grown chips enter global markets: Ashwini Vaishnaw
BusinessLine

India is moving towards becoming a “product nation” in semiconductors, with domestically designed chips beginning to find applications in defence and other strategic sectors, while semiconductor units in the country are increasingly…

thewrap.com - Jon Lafayette - An Ad Tech Firm Is on the Hunt for Smart AI Bets
An Ad Tech Firm Is on the Hunt for Smart AI Bets
TheWrap

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… While OpenAI and Anthropic look to rein in the power of artificial intelligence before it destroys the world, AI agents are already busy taking over daily tasks in the ad business like building media…

axios.com - Ryan Deto - Why Pittsburgh's tech scene is finding its niche
Why Pittsburgh's tech scene is finding its niche
Axios

Locals often say Pittsburgh shouldn't be like Boston or San Francisco, and the region's tech industry leaders are starting to agree. Why it matters: Pittsburgh's tech sector has been trying to grow beyond being a secondary player to places like…

fastcompany.com - Michael Ellison - Employers aren't giving up on computer science grads. Here's what they want instead
Employers aren't giving up on computer science grads. Here's what they want instead
Fast Company

Not long ago, a computer science degree was widely seen as a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Over the past year, a different narrative has taken hold: In the age of artificial intelligence, that path is collapsing. From coders working at…

thenation.com - The Nation - AI Is a Kitchen-Table Issue
AI Is a Kitchen-Table Issue
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Bluesky The Republican Party sports a glaring weakness in the pitched battle over regulating the rapidly multiplying abuses of AI, and its name is Donald John Trump. The president sought to dismiss the growing furor about the multitude of threats…

cnbc.com - Arjun Kharpal - The U.S. says China's AI progress is down to 'distillation.' But is it that clear cut?
The U.S. says China's AI progress is down to 'distillation.' But is it that clear cut?
CNBC

U.S. companies and Washington have accused Chinese labs of using distillation to gain ground, denouncing their efforts as theft. But a growing chorus of voices is casting doubt on how important distillation is to Chinese AI model development.

crunchbase.com - Guest Author - What 25,000 Startup Applications Reveal About The New Rules Of Seed-Stage Startups
What 25,000 Startup Applications Reveal About The New Rules Of Seed-Stage Startups
Crunchbase

Ten years ago, a seed-stage startup needed a product, a team and a pitch deck to raise capital. Today, that's just the start. Technology and strategy have become inseparable, each fueling the other, and the rules that once defined success have…

federalreserve.gov - Speech by Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman on initial findings from independent review of Silicon Valley Bank
Speech by Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman on initial findings from independent review of Silicon Valley Bank
The Fed

Today I am announcing the initial findings of the independent review of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). In June 2023, I called for an independent review of SVB's failure to supplement the internal review. After I was confirmed as Vice…

axios.com - Courtenay Brown - Rethinking Silicon Valley Bank's failure
Rethinking Silicon Valley Bank's failure
Axios

A new independent review of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse contradicts the Federal Reserve's initial postmortem over the role that looser regulations played in the bank's supervisory failures. Why it matters: Regulators are still trying to diagnose…

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