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fool.com - Joel O'Leary - Earn $1,000+ Toward Travel With Capital One Venture's Limited-Time Sign-Up Bonus
Earn $1,000+ Toward Travel With Capital One Venture's Limited-Time Sign-Up Bonus
The Motley Fool

If you've been waiting for a reason to open a travel card, this is a strong one. Capital One just rolled out a limited-time offer on the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card (see rates and fees) that's worth $1,000+ toward travel. Earn more than…

fortune.com - Allie Garfinkle - NVP's Vaughn Crowe on how manufacturing and industrials hit their venture moment
NVP's Vaughn Crowe on how manufacturing and industrials hit their venture moment
Fortune

For Vaughn Crowe, the world of manufacturing and industrials isn't theoretical. It's innate. Now a VC, he grew up in Newark, historically an American industrial powerhouse. “I was in the same neighborhood as the airport and the port,”…

axios.com - Dan Primack - Dollars and doomers in the AI safety debate
Dollars and doomers in the AI safety debate
Axios

I don't know if AI is going to destroy humanity. Neither do you. But here's what I do know: It's very difficult to have a sober conversation about this when there's so much money at stake. This isn't an accusation of dishonesty. It's an observation…

adweek.com - Christopher Cicchiello - AI Buying Platforms Will Manage 27% of U.S. Ad Spend by 2030: Report
AI Buying Platforms Will Manage 27% of U.S. Ad Spend by 2030: Report
ADWEEK

The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry's top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what's next. Get your ticket. After becoming a $1 trillion industry for the first time in 2024, a new forecast…

wsj.com - Walden Siew - Polymarket Names First CFO; Macy's Bets on Pricier Products
Polymarket Names First CFO; Macy's Bets on Pricier Products
Wall Street Journal

Good morning. There are more moves in the C-suite, this time in the booming prediction-markets sector. Polymarket named Warren Jenson as its first companywide CFO, who joins at a pivotal time as the company looks to expand its market share. The…

wsj.com - The Editorial Board - Opinion | Don't Tax the Unicorns
Opinion | Don't Tax the Unicorns
Wall Street Journal

Economists keep warning politicians that incentives matter, and the latest teachable moment concerns taxation and innovation. New research suggests how sensitive investors in start-up companies are to changes in tax policy, and what this means for…

afr.com - Sumeyya Ilanbey - Coalition will ditch Victoria's state-owned VC fund
Coalition will ditch Victoria's state-owned VC fund
Australian Financial Review

State-owned venture capital fund Breakthrough Victoria will be abolished and its investments divested if a Coalition government is elected in the state in November. The fund had “comprehensively failed” to deliver on its promise to…

wsj.com - Sarah Klearman - What's the Right Amount of AI Regulation?
What's the Right Amount of AI Regulation?
Wall Street Journal

Good day: It seems like everywhere I look these days I'm running into debate about AI regulation. An Anthropic researcher just quit his position over concerns that the company and its competitors won't be able to control the AI models they're…

fool.com - Selena Maranjian - Prediction: Morningstar (MORN) Stock Will Be Worth More Than $13 Billion by 2031 -- 73% Higher Than Its Recent Value. Here's the Math.
Prediction: Morningstar (MORN) Stock Will Be Worth More Than $13 Billion by 2031 -- 73% Higher Than Its Recent Value. Here's the Math.
The Motley Fool

Morningstar (MORN -2.49%) is a stock that hasn't been on my radar very much, but perhaps it should be -- because it seems undervalued, and it's growing. It recently sported a market value of $7.5 billion, and I think it could be worth $13.2 billion…

bloomberg.com - Bailey Lipschultz - 1789 Capital-Backed Firehawk Seeks Funds at $1.25 Billion Value
1789 Capital-Backed Firehawk Seeks Funds at $1.25 Billion Value
Bloomberg

Firehawk Aerospace is in talks for a private funding round valuing the defense technology company at $1.25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which counts venture firm 1789 Capital as an investor, is seeking to…

forbes.com - Stan Kos - Every Powerful Leader Has One Powerful Weakness
Every Powerful Leader Has One Powerful Weakness
Forbes

In 2018, I realized I wasn't firm enough in negotiations, so I decided to learn from the toughest people I knew. The first person who came to mind was a remarkable entrepreneur whose company our venture capital fund had invested in back in 2012. To…

seekingalpha.com - Amrita Roy - AI Is Going Rogue: 3 Stocks I'm Buying (NASDAQ:AIQ)
AI Is Going Rogue: 3 Stocks I'm Buying (NASDAQ:AIQ)
Seeking Alpha

AI safety concerns are intensifying as key researchers are quitting, citing concerns that the AI industry is racing to build self-improving superintelligence that could spiral out of human control. As leading labs face repeated loss-of-control…

thehindu.com - Pti - 37 deep-tech innovations on display at Bharat Innovates Exposition on Sep 11-12
37 deep-tech innovations on display at Bharat Innovates Exposition on Sep 11-12
The Hindu

India's 37 deep-tech innovations are being showcased at the 'Bharat Innovates Exposition' at Bharat Mandapam here from September 11 to 12 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, officials said on Friday (September 11, 2026). An advanced floating…

swissinfo.ch - Matthew Allen - A new generation of robots is taking shape in Switzerland
A new generation of robots is taking shape in Switzerland
www.swissinfo.ch

The companies now face the challenge of converting innovative research into viable businesses in the face of intense global competition from the United States and China. From humanoids, drones and self-driving vehicles to machines that operate in…

thewrap.com - Jon Lafayette - Rich Greenfield on AI's Value in Investing - and Why Spotify Doesn't Get Enough Credit
Rich Greenfield on AI's Value in Investing - and Why Spotify Doesn't Get Enough Credit
TheWrap

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Artificial intelligence is fueling booms in startups and creating opportunities for investors looking to participate in seed and early round funding for companies that could reshape industries like…

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