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AI may be helping more people start their own businesses, but without many employees
The startup era is back, but this time founders are using AI to avoid one of their biggest early costs—hiring employees. A report this week by the Bank of America Institute found the number of “high propensity businesses,” or…
15 TV Shows To Watch If You Like HBO's Industry
'Industry' has turned out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2020s in television — a mean, nasty, pull-no-punches immersion into the icy wilderness of the British stock market, conducted through first-rate storytelling in which…
Adot, Papago named among world's top 50 AI web, mobile services
Homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) services are making their mark on the global stage, with SK Telecom's AI agent A. (Adot) and Naver's translation service Papago making the top 50 lists of generative AI web products and mobile consumer apps…
Bitcoin struggles to hold US$70,000 as war fuels inflation fears
NEW YORK: Bitcoin briefly slid below US$70,000 last Friday as inflation fears tied to the Iran war rattled markets, overshadowing a fresh regulatory win for cryptocurrencies in the United States. Bitcoin had fallen for three straight days after…
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once
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 ! If you haven't noticed, Uber is suddenly…
The Strait Squeeze
U.S. equity markets fell for a fourth straight week, while interest rates jumped to eight-month highs, as continued turmoil in the Middle East rattled financial markets and revived inflation concerns. The third week of the Iran conflict settled…
What To Read This Weekend
It has been a week of inference. I started the week writing about OpenClaw and its growing popularity. And I end the week with a recap of Nvidia's GTC event. A lot has been written about the event, especially about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's big…
The Necessity and Possibility of Sovereign Artifical Intelligence-and a Sovereign Cloud
This article, the third in a series of six, is devoted to what is known, mainly in Europe, although it also concerns other countries, as sovereign artificial intelligence. It was written with Constantin Vaillant Tenzer, a researcher in mathematics…
Trinity Capital - A 14% BDC Roller Coaster
Trinity Capital (TRIN) offers a 14% forward yield through venture lending to early-stage companies, with net investment income covering the dividend at 102% and $68.7M in undistributed earnings providing a cushion, but effective yields compressed…
Macquarie-backed Rela blitzes UK farmers with cash-for-lease deals
London | Macquarie Group-backed finance start-up Rela will become one of Britain's biggest managers of renewable energy leases as it expands to the United Kingdom with blue-chip backing to help farmers monetise hosting solar and wind projects on…
The New Blueprint for Impact: Analyzing Last Week's $3.9 Million Crowdfunding Triumphs
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The Entropy Illusion of a Quantum Billionaire
The dominant narrative of artificial intelligence positions compute as the scarce resource and scale as the solution: more parameters, more data, more GPU hours. We call this the Quantum Billionaire illusion — the belief that enough resource…
Takeover at the Telegraph
So, the EU-hating Telegraph titles have been acquired not simply by a German company – Axel Springer SE – but by one that was strongly opposed to Brexit. The company already owns Die Welt, Bild, Business Insider, Politico and the…
Sunday Pages: 'The Social Network'
Our second kid was born in the late summer of 2006. By then, we'd been living in the Hudson Valley—where we moved when Kid #1 was six months old—for over a year. In that time, our circle of local friends had expanded from zero to…
CinCin: Cheers to Money Laundering
I'm looking forward to a beautiful spring week in Mexico City — my favorite time of year. This will be my last full week here, before I'm on to my next stop, so I plan to make the most of it. Partner content: Alerts aren't the…
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