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Anthropic has soared to a $1.5 trillion valuation on secondary markets. Almost no one wants to sell.
Investors still can't get enough of Anthropic. As the AI giant races towards what could be one of the largest IPOs in history, its shares are changing hands on secondary markets at valuations as high as $1.5 trillion, even as competition from…
Kalshi's Valuation Could Nearly Double to $40 Billion After Reports Suggest It Could Raise Another $750 Million. Here's What's Driving the Prediction Market Boom.
The leading prediction markets company, Kalshi, is reportedly in talks to raise another $750 million at a $40 billion valuation. The Information reported the news, citing anonymous sources. Three months ago, Kalshi raised $1 billion in funding at a…
Top Creators Earned $1 Billion. 2 Small Businesses Ran The Same Play
Top Creators online from left to right: Mr. Beast, Dhar Mann, Apryl Beverly, Kristian A. Smith, and Steven Bartlett, Source: Institute Of Business AI The 50 most powerful creators on the internet earned a combined $1.02 billion from March 2025 to…
A Former PayPal Exec Is Fixing VCs' Biggest Blind Spot: Women Founders
Investors, take another look at women founders. Fifty years ago, a woman couldn't get a credit card without a male co-signer. Today, some women founders are adding male co-founders who know nothing about their businesses — just to get a…
Global Convergence: Shaping the Future of Web3 at August 2026 Crypto Summits
August 2026's strong roster of worldwide cryptocurrency conferences spans institutional acceptance, legal debates, and regional market growth. Key events start with the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson Hole from August 17 to 20 and the LATAM…
New $25 Million Accelerator Bets On Better Model For Rare Disease
Better pediatric treatments needed A new Pittsburgh-based initiative is making a $25 million bet on a persistent problem in medicine: promising rare disease science too often fails to become a treatment. The Richard King Mellon Foundation has…
Rabbit Hole Founder Says Bourbon's Shakeout Could Be Good Thing
Rabbit Hole Distillery's Core Lineup. When Kaveh Zamanian decided to enter the bourbon business in 2012, there were plenty of people in Kentucky who thought the clinical psychologist from California had lost his mind. At the time, bourbon was only…
40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years
A total of 40 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in July, the highest monthly total in more than four years, with three joining at values greater than $10 billion. Leading sectors by count were financial services, robotics, AI…
Buried in OpenAI's latest research: No correlation between AI use and revenue per employee
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Jeremy one last time as his vacation comes to a close. In today's issue: Juicy details OpenAI doesn't want you to see in its new report Anthropic reportedly plans a $2 trillion IPO in…
Bethenny Frankel Reveals She Was 'Retiring' Before Career Reinvention: 'I Was on My Way Out'
Bethenny Frankel was ready to hang things up before her career was unexpectedly reinvented. “Skinnygirl was amazing, but I didn't know anything when I started it,” the businesswoman, 55, exclusively told Us on Wednesday, August 12…
Code Metal lands $80 million Pentagon deal to modernize military wargaming
Preston Fore here. Landing a defense contract has historically meant navigating layers of government bureaucracy, with proposals often taking years to turn into cash. But software unicorn Code Metal is getting something new defense contractors…
41-year-old Josh Kushner's World Cup privatization scheme fell apart. Then he became the Lakers co-owner days later
For a billionaire and a tech investor who also has one of the U.S.' best-known surnames, Josh Kushner has managed to stay off the front pages and out of the world's broader discourse to a remarkable degree. That's all changed this summer, at least…
Josh Kushner moves into spotlight after stunning purchase of Lakers with partner Bob Iger
For a billionaire and a tech investor who also has one of the U.S.' best-known surnames, Josh Kushner has managed to stay off the front pages and out of the world's broader discourse to a remarkable degree. That's all changed this summer, at least…
Billionaire Joshua Kushner just bought the Lakers for $12.5 billion-OpenAI's Sam Altman once said he 'doesn't care' what others think
Joshua Kushner has just announced he is teaming up with former Disney CEO Bob Iger to buy the Los Angeles Lakers for a record-breaking $12.5 billion. The new sale still needs approval from the NBA's Board of Governors, but it would mark the largest…
Shares Of Trump Jr.-Linked Dronemaker Pop After White House Unveils New Tariffs
President Donald Trump on Thursday imposed a broad set of tariffs on imported drones and drone components, in a move the White House says is intended to bolster national security and the local supply chain, and that appears to primarily target…
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