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Will 2026 Be the Year of the 'Soonicorn'?
|Will 2026 Be the Year of the ‘Soonicorn'? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/business/soonicorn-billion-dollar-startups.html Once upon a time, becoming a “unicorn” — a private start-up worth more than a billion dollars…
Huang and Pichai among tech CEOs heading to India for major AI summit in a key market
India will host the AI Impact Summit this week in New Delhi. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai are all expected to attend. India presents a lucrative market of young, tech-forward consumers and a huge…
Snowflake's CEO says software giants risk becoming a 'dumb data pipe' to AI models
The biggest software companies might be reduced to mere data sources, says Snowflake's CEO. 'The big model makers want to create a world in which all of the data for all of the enterprises is easily available to them,' Sridhar Ramaswamy said on an…
Battle brews among beach elite as locals brace for tasteless neighbors
There's a battle brewing in one of America's most exclusive zip codes, and locals are bracing for the worst. After seeing off a steady stream of intolerable influencers and nuisance day trippers last summer, the tony old-money crowds of the…
Small & smart: The Indian way in AI balances local needs, global ambition
AI firms in India last year raised $0.3 billion in 98 rounds, compared to $122.5 billion raised by US companies in 849 rounds. A total of 969 AI startups were founded in India in the past five years and 4,092 were in the US. While funding for…
Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure
Neysa, an Indian AI infrastructure startup, has secured backing from U.S. private equity firm Blackstone as it scales domestic compute capacity amid India's push to build homegrown AI capabilities. Blackstone and co-investors, including Teachers'…
California's billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies
Tech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars to influence California politics in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol. Behemoths such as Google and Meta are getting involved in campaigns…
Why China wants Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom to be US president
Progressives have long branded President Trump as a stooge for Russia. Yet the more important story may be who President Xi Jinping of China wants in office. Unlike Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Xi has the financial muscle, ties to business…
OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger in push toward autonomous agents
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the fast-growing open-source agent framework OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI Group PBC after weeks of being courted by multiple major artificial intelligence players, marking a notable coup for the company as the…
Canada increases security spending | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Canada's Arctic is one of the most exposed places on the planet, where communications routinely fail -- satellites fade, cellular networks vanish, hardware freezes. Those problems led Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics to build AuraNet, a software…
Growth Stocks To Follow Now - February 15th
Prologis Stock Surges: Why the Rally May Continue Prologis, Teledyne Technologies, Ascendis Pharma A/S, Hercules Capital, Hamilton Lane, Acadia Realty Trust, and Trinity Capital are the seven Growth stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's…
AI-powered Cloud service provider Neysa to raise $1.2 bn via equity, debt
Other investors participating in the fundraise include Teachers' Venture Growth, TVS Capital Funds, 360 ONE Asset, and Nexus Venture Partners. The company did not disclose its valuation. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sharad Sanghi, the fundraise…
TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian's savior
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! We are in the midst of one of my four…
Partner Banking League Tables & Analysis: 2025
Happy Valentine's Day! I'll spare you my dad jokes/banking Valentine's puns (Kiah did an admirable job in this department here.) By the time this lands in your inbox, I'll be deep into my jet lag, as my flight arrived here in México around…
As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck
Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors, an Indian startup building plug-and-play, system-level power solutions designed to cut…
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