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The Guardian view on venture capitalism: investor profits are no industrial strategy | Editorial
Britain keeps selling its most valuable companies. The Financial Times calculates that 300 went to foreign buyers, mostly American, over the past decade. What if innovation were scaled up to serve social needs here rather than US investors'…
VC Insider: The AI market is getting nervous
Hello. It's Katie Roof. Jensen Huang is out as Nvidia's CEO, adding to the uncertainty facing an AI industry already grappling with compute shortages and a backlash against data centers. What comes next for Nvidia, the AI trade, and Anthropic's…
At a major Silicon Valley AI conference, VCs and CEOs grapple with a future without Jensen Huang
Hours after he was ousted as the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang was still winning at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco on Thursday. At least in a video game. In 'Cerebral Kombat,' an arcade game set up for attendees, the Nvidia cofounder…
Donald Trump Jr. exits advisory role at Kalshi prediction market
It was a mutual arrangement to end the advisory role, a Kalshi spokesperson said. Both the platform and Trump Jr. agreed it was a conflict of interest to keep the president's son as an advisor while serving as a top investor for Polymarket, the…
How Novig became the third biggest prediction market site despite launching only months ago
Since bursting on the scene two years ago, prediction markets have become one of the buzziest new sectors in finance, pulling in billions of dollars in revenue, and driving daily news headlines. The young industry is dominated by two giants, Kalshi…
Ramaphosa to engage US tech giants on SA's AI future
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Image source: Presidency) President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead a high-level, multi-stakeholder South African delegation to Silicon Valley in the US next week. This, as the country seeks to strengthen its artificial…
Kalshi Dumps Donald Trump Jr. as Political Winds Change
Kalshi, the world's largest prediction market, has dropped Donald Trump Jr. as an advisor. The president's son joined Kalshi as a strategic adviser in January 2025, shortly before his father's return to the White House. He joined rival Polymarket's…
AI industry execs brace for future without leading hype man, Nvidia's Jensen Huang
Tech industry insiders awoke Thursday morning with an unfamiliar, and somewhat alarming notion to contemplate: life without Jensen Huang. Huang's abrupt resignation as CEO leaves one of the world's most valuable companies without the leader who has…
AI industry weighs future without Nvidia's Huang
Huang's abrupt fall comes at a sensitive time for the sector, just days before the closely watched IPO of AI firm Anthropic and amid mounting concerns about the financial soundness of the industry's colossal investment spree. Before his resignation…
Kalshi ends advisor contract with Donald Trump Jr. following Polymarket investment
Kalshi has ended its advisory contract with Donald Trump Jr after his venture capital firm 1789 Capital increased its stake in arch-rival Polymarket, according to a spokesperson for the $40 billion prediction markets startup. The Democratic sweep…
What Makes A VC Say Yes To A Founder
Mary Minno is a Founding Partner at Treehub. Over the past year, I've backed 43 startups. This fall, I'm teaching Stanford School of Medicine's AI Lab master's course, training medtech entrepreneurs. Between investing at Treehub and teaching at…
WATCH: How AI, autonomous weapons and new defense technologies are reshaping the future of warfare and U.S. national security.
On November 19 at 1:45 p.m. ET, tune in to conversations with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Boeing Defense, Space & Security president and CEO Steve Parker, In-Q-Tel president and CEO Steve Bowsher, Forterra CEO Josh…
Will Anthropic's IPO go supersonic?
Only in the United States can a company founded just six years ago become central to the efforts to maintain superiority over China or any other country in the broad spectrum of artificial intelligence. Moreover, only in the U.S. do the deep pools…
His name is also Jensen Huang. The Nvidia founder's bad press is good for business.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jensen Huang, the 24-year-old software engineer and founder of the AI startup Lycana. He is based in Singapore. This essay has been edited for length and clarity. Since grade school, I've known…
This Startup Raised $1 Billion to Build AI Faster and With Fewer Humans
Mirendil, a startup building artificial-intelligence tools that could vastly accelerate the pace of AI research and development, has raised $1 billion in its latest funding round. Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins and private-equity firm…
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