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Taiwan's AI stock boom is making early-stage startups a tougher pitch
Taiwan's AI stock boom is creating more ways for investors to profit from its chip supply chain, making early-stage startups a tougher pitch. Taiwan's benchmark Taiex index is up more than 50% this year, making it the world's best-performing major…
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”.
Democrats accuse Musk's X of favoring Polymarket
A group of Senate Democrats accused Elon Musk's social media platform X of giving the prediction market Polymarket “preferential treatment” on its timeline. In a letter to X leadership Friday, Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto…
Brazil selloff extends dismal run for Latin American markets
The recent collapse of Brazil's stock market following leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection has extended a dismal run for Latin American equities, and analysts held out little hope for an imminent rebound. The region once…
Victims of Florida plane crash include 20-year-old copilot and Colorado family
A 20-year-old woman who had been a licensed pilot since she was a teenager and a Colorado technology entrepreneur and his family were among nine people killed when a small jet crashed and exploded in South Florida, family members said. Nathalia…
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…
On Wall Street, the 'energy transition' includes natural gas and data centers
Blackstone, one of the largest private equity firms in the world, officially changed the name of its dedicated energy investment fund to include the phrase “energy transition” in 2022, having already ceased investing in oil and gas…
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…
Tutor Intelligence's $75m, Grant Thornton's giant, and Ibrahim Ajami's next act
• Tutor Intelligence, a Watertown, Mass.-based warehouse robotics developer, raised $75m in Series B funding. A16z led, joined by USV and Neo. Go deeper • 42AI, an Israeli behavioral world AI model developer, raised a $62.5m seed…
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…
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…
German companies lag in large-scale AI use, BIS publication says
Only 7% of German companies use generative artificial intelligence on a large scale, a Bundesbank survey found, according to a speech published Nov. 2 by the Bank for International Settlements. The survey put the share already using the technology…
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…
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