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The Future Of Venture Capital Depends On Who Controls The Capital
Catherine Gray, Founder She Angel Investors, Executive Producer Show Her The Money For years, the conversation around women and venture capital has centered on one statistic: women founders receive less than 2% of venture capital funding. But that…
Canada's unicorn moment: AI investment boom helps propel billion-dollar startups
A surge in artificial intelligence investment is reshaping the global startup landscape, creating billion-dollar companies at a pace never before seen. According to new data compiled by BestBrokers using Crunchbase and PitchBook information, global…
7 key trends defining the cybersecurity market today
AI is having a seismic impact on the cybersecurity market. Record-shattering amounts of venture capital is flowing into a new generation of startups focused on AI cybersecurity. At the same time, established cybersecurity vendors are racing to…
Coding Jobs Vanish For Juniors As AI Reshapes Career Path
ILLUSTRATION - 07 August 2024, Hesse, Frankfurt/Main: A registered user sits in front of a screen while the language program ChatGPT, developed by the US company OpenAI, writes computer code based on artificial intelligence. Photo: Frank…
Fidji Simo on her life after OpenAI and new startup, ChronicleBio
Emily Forlini here, filling in for Allie. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if the AI industry pointed its billions and top-tier talent into solving problems that matter most. I'm talking about disease, hunger, and poverty. The industry often…
Inside Canva's quiet experiment to stop an existential AI threat
Unknown to most of its 265 million users, Canva is quietly running an experiment to see if its own take on artificial intelligence can help save a business model that has been wildly successful, until now. Last week, the Australian design software…
Is it the 'age of the unc'? These 40-something founders say they have something the AI kids don't
Amir Elaguizy has books about neural networks from the '60s. The 42-year-old serial entrepreneur doesn't believe that being younger means you're more AI-native. Elaguizy emailed with Geoffrey Hinton, the ' Godfather of AI,' before Hinton started…
I spent 15 years chasing my dream of designing planes. I gave it up to help revive rural Japan.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daisuke Fujii, the cofounder of Farm & Firm Company, a Japanese consulting firm that helps farmers and rural communities generate new income through agritourism, hospitality, and business…
Inside stablecoin firm BVNK's journey to a $1.8B acquisition by Mastercard
Long before big-ticket crypto deals and billion-dollar acquisitions make headlines, there's a long and hard-fought journey, often culminating in a secretive contest where jockeying suitors bid, bluff or walk, until eventually the best match makes…
Sovereign AI: Why Canada's next technology challenge is infrastructure
Much of the public conversation around AI still focuses on models, chatbots, funding rounds, and headline-grabbing breakthroughs. Yet the next phase of AI competition may depend on less visible assets: power generation, GPU capacity, networking…
Shein faces existential threat as tariffs hit low-price model, putting new focus on services
Shein's growth and profitability has been hit by new tariffs and the removal of the de minimis exemption in the U.S., documents filed in connection with its Hong Kong IPO show. The company expects sales could decline even further in Europe, its…
Rocket Companies CEO Varun Krishna wants to fuse Silicon Valley talent with Detroit grit
In today's CEO Daily: A playbook for blending two business cultures The big leadership story: The AI darling of Big Oil The markets: Mixed globally as investors await news of a Iran deal. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good…
US Army swore in 4 tech executives as lieutenant colonels. Here's why
Claim: The U.S. Army swore in four senior executives with ties to technology companies Meta, Palantir, OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab as lieutenant colonels. Context The Army swore in tech executives with ties to those companies in June 2025…
Africa's dealmakers bet on IPO wave
Africa's dealmakers are betting that the continent's capital markets are entering a new phase, with a burst of IPO and M&A activity kicking off with Aliko Dangote's anticipated $5 billion listing of his refinery on the Nigerian Exchange.
The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: A Crisis of Ideology, Hardware, Finance, and Ethics
By Oleh Polishchuk (Senior Subject Matter Expert in AI Training & Evaluation) Intelligence is not measured by terawatts. Stop paying billions for illusions, litigating over copyrights, and burning the planet's resources for random errors. If you…
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