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Big AI Bets Divide Venture Capital, Leaving Smaller Funds Behind
Early last year, venture capital firm Felix Capital set out to raise $600 million for its next fund, touting previous investments in fitness-machine maker Peloton Interactive Inc. and food-delivery service Deliveroo. But investors want to see…
A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
Did you recently see a video of kids from the 1990s predicting how computers would be used in the future? It's fake. The video was created using Flux 3 and if you didn't inspect it too closely, it looks pretty authentic as an artifact from 30 years…
IBM's Quantum Bet Just Got Bigger-What the HRL Deal Means for Investors
The quantum computing field is continuing to advance. This can be seen from companies diversifying their strategies and governments getting more involved in funding the efforts. It's against this backdrop that International Business Machines…
If You Don't Buy This Market, Someone Else Will (NASDAQ:SMH)
The recent AI selloff was driven by forced deleveraging, not a collapse in AI demand, creating a buying opportunity in high-conviction AI bottleneck names. Citadel's purchase of the Situational Awareness portfolio at a discount signals…
Jerusalem establishes new accelerator to expand role in Israel's defense tech
Jerusalem has established a new accelerator to broaden the capital's footprint in Israel's defense-tech ecosystem. The program will help local companies. The accelerator is led by the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) along with the Defense…
AI startup Reforged Labs shuts down as the 'gap we were selling into is closing'
Generative AI platform Reforged Labs is shutting down after three years due to challenges scaling beyond the gaming sector. Founded in 2023, the company provided AI technology for 'creative strategy and performance marketing in mobile gaming'.
Trump needs a new 'Operation Warp Speed' to beat China in race for cures
This is about far more than scientific prestige. The economic stakes are enormous. The global regenerative medicine market is projected to grow from approximately $58 billion in 2025 to more than $360 billion by 2034, making it one of the…
Airtree more than doubles its money in US start-up sale
Airtree Ventures has sold its minority stake in $US845 million ($1.2 billion) US software unicorn DroneDeploy after eight years, more than doubling its money and giving returns to some of its earliest investors. The move comes as venture capital…
Exclusive: In Menlo Park housing fight, Bonta sends a potential warning to California cities
After nearly two years of legal conflict over one of Menlo Park's largest proposed developments on the former Sunset Magazine headquarters site, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sided with the developer, saying the city violated state…
The VC firm behind Shopify is doubling down on robotics and defense
Hard tech used to be a hard sell in Silicon Valley. Now, a major venture firm is staffing up to invest in it. Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm best known for bets on Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to…
Hercules Capital: Strong Growth But Valuation Leaves Little Room For Error (NYSE:HTGC)
Hercules Capital is rated Buy at $16.40, targeting $18–$19.50 in 12–18 months, with an attractive income-driven return profile. HTGC benefits from record venture capital activity and a fast-growing Adviser business but faces a…
To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining
The last century was fueled by oil and gas. Turner Caldwell is betting the next century runs on metals. “We're entering a metals-driven economy,” said Caldwell, CEO and cofounder at Mariana Minerals, a software-focused mining startup.
After raising $1B in funding, Valar Atomics plans to mass produce small nuclear reactors for the AI industry
Nuclear energy startup Valar Atomics Inc. said today it has raised a bumper $1 billion Series B funding round to help it move from building prototype small nuclear reactors to manufacturing them at scale on a production line. Today's round was led…
Ex-Military Entrepreneurs Are Set To Cash In On Defense Tech Boom
The enemy gets a vote, too. That military aphorism took on a chilling immediacy for Brandon Tseng when he was training for an Afghanistan deployment as a Navy SEAL in 2012. His team was simulating clearing a house of enemy fighters when the Naval…
How Fake World Assets Became Crypto's Latest Craze
Just when you thought crypto was getting boring, a new phenomenon is lighting up Crypto Twitter — Fake World Assets (FWAs). Yes, really. It's the latest iteration of the onchain gacha craze, where users receive a random collectible, or…
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