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AI Is Great At Analyzing The Past. Venture Capital Bets On The Future
VCs betting on the next big shift The venture capital world thrives on the notion that a handful of companies will reshape entire economies. Now the tools investors increasingly rely on to spot those companies may be working against them. Roughly…
Exclusive | How early bet on photonics gave this Chinese venture capital firm an AI windfall
As artificial intelligence strains the physical limits of existing data centres, scientists and investors are turning to the ultimate speed limit of the universe for the next computing frontier: light. For Mi Lei, founder of CAS Star, a venture…
AI Is Great At Analyzing The Past. Venture Capital Bets On The Future
The venture capital world thrives on the notion that a handful of companies will reshape entire economies. Now the tools investors increasingly rely on to spot those companies may be working against them. Roughly three-quarters of venture capital…
Hong Kong considers new offshore yuan venture fund for tech, emerging industries
Hong Kong is actively considering launching a new offshore renminbi venture fund to channel capital into cutting-edge technology and emerging industries, while supporting yuan internationalisation, the city's finance chief has said. The initiative…
Steady retail growth in April reflects stable recovery, Paul Chan says
Hong Kong's retail sales for April are expected to maintain a decent increase, marking 12 consecutive months of growth and reflecting stable recovery momentum for the local retail sector, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said. SCROLL TO CONTINUE…
How carbon finance could give a boost to Japan's ailing forestry industry
Japan's forestry sector is at a crossroads. Population decline and cheap imported timber are driving down prices. Forest ownership is fragmented and small-scale, further limiting profitability. The workforce is aging and shrinking. As a result…
White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.
When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. The president's eldest son said through a…
Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there's a catch
According to Crunchbase's latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For…
GameStop (NYSE: GME) And eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) Takeover Bid Takes Center Stage At Princeton Corporate Governance Forum
CorpGov hosted the second Princeton CorpGov Forum on May 21, 2026, at The Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey, drawing industry leaders and alumni spanning five decades. Topics covered at the forum included university endowments, shareholder…
Rejected 4 times in H-1B lottery, Google employee quit job and built startup
Rejected four times in the H-1B visa lottery, a Google employee feared he would have to leave the United States and move back to Nepal. Instead, he quit his high-paying job, launched an AI startup and eventually secured a green card. Karki recently…
Bubbles, a UK Compounder & Ferrari's Future
This month's podcast guest is Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO and famed for his work on bubbles. He is still intellectually sharp at 87, experimenting with AI and continuing to work. He has written a book (The Making of a Permabear: The Perils…
Model Identifies the Exact Threshold for Optimal Ambition
Summary: A collaborative mathematical study reconciled conflicting pieces of cultural advice by mapping the exact parameters of human ambition. The research utilizes sequential search modeling to prove that optimal success occurs when individuals…
American Express vs. Visa: 2 Different Ways to Bet on Premium Consumer Spending
Consumer spending represents a whopping 70% of U.S. gross domestic product. So it makes sense for investors to find ways of building portfolio exposure to companies that contribute to this key economic metric. American Express (AXP +0.43%) and Visa…
The Sequence Radar #869: Last Week in AI: The Token Becomes the Unit of Account - Opus 4.8, OpenRouter, Cognition, Snowflake, and a papal warning
We continue our series about transformer alternatives. In the AI of the Week section, we discuss Opus 4.8. The opinion of the week discusses companies the strategic differences between companies like Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic…
Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? | Eduardo Porter
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a few years ago to propose that homo sapiens would be the first species “to design our own descendants”. In his best case scenario, the “merge” between…
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