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Inside: How advances in AI are impacting cybersecurity investing; Meet private markets' Women of Influence class of 2026; Skandia Mutual Life Insurance's Stefan Fällgren on working with venture managers; Q3 fundraising on track for another…
Prediction market bettors are the new political pundits. Why are we listening to them? | Judith Levine
Online betting is a bit like Donald Trump. The prediction markets – platforms where users bet on whether events will occur – pretend to be populist, pushing the nabobs aside and representing the “wisdom of the crowd”.
Your Network Is Still The Best Model You'll Ever Train
Kyle Nakatsuji is CEO of Clearcover, an AI-native auto insurer, and Dearborn Labs, a forward-deployed AI practice for P&C carriers and MGAs. I recently invited Joe Schmidt of Andreessen Horowitz onto my podcast, Context Window. Off mic, he told me…
Five Tips For Entrepreneurs Scaling Startups
Parna Sarkar-Basu is the founder of B&B Consulting & host of Beyond One Million. She writes about entrepreneurship, tech trends & pivots. “I'm stuck at $1 million and can't seem to grow.” This is a statement I hear a lot when I am…
The Transamerica Pyramid is trying something new: A holiday market for San Francisco
The redwood grove at the foot of San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid is about to glow with holiday lights, the incandescence of movie nights and fill with vendor chalets — all in the latest bid to continue the landmark's transformation from…
More Money, Fewer Checks: These 3 Charts Show The Divide Behind VC's Record Funding Year
Startup capital is both more abundant than ever this year and yet scarcer. That contradiction has become increasingly visible in 2026 when analyzing Crunchbase data, and the trend continued through Q3. Our data shows that despite record venture…
Congratulations, Everyone Can Build (Allegedly). Now What?
Neda Nia drives Stibo Systems' product vision, shaping strategy, innovation and growth to create measurable value for customers. Andrew Chen, a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, recently captured the shift in one…
Wholesale marketplace Faire survived the 'fog of crazy valuations.' Now, it's eyeing an IPO
Phil Wahba here. Faire, the online wholesale market, is eyeing a potential IPO in the next 12 months, after surviving the perils that come from pressure on Bay Area tech darlings to grow, grow, grow. “It was like the fog of war or the fog of…
I'm a wealthy Californian. The billionaire tax is a win for everyone | George Zimmer
On Tuesday, California voters will decide whether to enact Proposition 40, a one-time, 5% tax on the net worth of about 250 California billionaires. In recent months, a number of California billionaires and their apologists in the media and in…
Alphabet At The Crossroads: Q3 FY26 Earnings Review (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
Alphabet faces a pivotal moment as AI-driven costs surge, challenging its legacy search profitability and demanding rapid reinvention. AI investments boost Google Cloud and subscriptions, but $7.7bn in quarterly model training costs and $160bn in…
S&P's negative outlook on Meta underscores the risks of the AI spending boom
Good morning. Following the recent third-quarter tech earnings reports, Wall Street is increasingly questioning the sustainability of the AI spending boom. Late Friday, S&P Global revised its outlook on Meta to “negative” from…
From Wall Street heirs to telecoms tycoons, at least half of major U.S. Senate candidates are millionaires-and some are worth upwards of $200 million
As billionaires like Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros pour millions of dollars into the 2026 U.S. midterms, the election cycle is shaping up to be the most expensive in history. But for some candidates, the mounting costs of running…
AI and women at work: 5 positives, 8 negatives
The debate about AI and work often focuses on the jobs that will disappear, which tasks will be automated, and which skills and qualities will be valued in the future. Seldom do I read articles that analyze the impact of AI on exhaustion and…
CASCADES ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF MARTIN BRISSON AS VICE-PRESIDENT, CORPORATE STRATEGY AND INVESTOR RELATIONS
KINGSEY FALLS, QC, Nov. 2, 2026 /CNW/ -- Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Brisson as Vice-President, Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations. With more than 20 years of experience in business…
Corporate America's AI bills are piling up. This startup raised $30 million to help.
Companies went all in on AI this year, and are now reckoning with heavy bills. One startup wants to get under the hood and figure out which ones are worth it. Larridin, a San Francisco-based startup, just raised $30 million in Series A funding to…
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