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Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup Marklo
Jessica Herrin was pregnant with her first child and working at Dell when she began testing jewelry trunk shows in Austin on nights and weekends. The venture became Stella & Dot, a business that sold more than $2 billion in products through a…
Inside The AI Infrastructure Buildout
Madhurima Manchala, Founder of Maps.ai and Early Stage Venture Capital Investor. Ask an AI model to plan a three-day trip to Tokyo, and an itinerary appears in seconds. At the center of that seemingly effortless interaction is a data center, where…
Ilhan Omar's husband insists he has 'no concerns' amid federal immigration investigation
Rep. Ilhan Omar 's husband, Tim Mynett, insisted he has 'no concerns' about federal investigations into the Minnesota Democrat's immigration paperwork after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents raided the couple's Washington, D.C., home.
FBI adds another name to new list of most wanted fraudsters
The FBI has added a Texas man accused of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, a type of investment fraud in which money from new investors is used to make earlier investors believe their investment is making money, to its new Most Wanted…
Abilene Christian University is giving Ivy League endowments a run for their money in the market
College and university endowments typically disclose their most recent fiscal year financial markets performance in the September to November period, and one surprising trend is showing up again in the data. Smaller endowment funds are rivaling Ivy…
Ashdod Port executive elected to lead international innovation committee
Roy Avrahami, head of innovation and the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm at Ashdod Port Company, has been elected president of the IAPORTS Innovation Committee for the 2026–27 term. Avrahami was elected by acclamation at the committee's…
JPMorganChase Names Shipbuilding Leaders Under $1.5 Trillion Industrial Initiative
JPMorganChase has appointed two senior leaders to help expand its support for U.S. shipbuilding and the maritime industry under its $1.5 trillion Security and Resiliency Initiative (SRI), a 10-year effort aimed at strengthening industries critical…
London cafe wars: Hampstead Heath tenants win right to challenge tender decision
Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The tenants at the centre of a cafe war in…
Scoop: Andreessen Horowitz lays off 'majority' of portfolio recruiting team
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has laid off the majority of a 34-person team that helps portfolio companies recruit talent, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Why it matters: Andreessen Horowitz is one of the largest and most active…
Anduril eyes $90b valuation and Pear VC's $333m
• Anduril is in talks to sell $1.3b of insider shares at a $90b valuation, per Bloomberg. Go deeper • Harmonic Security, a workforce AI security platform, raised $50m in Series B funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners. Go deeper…
Anduril Valuation Hits $90 Billion in Employee Share Sale
Anduril Industries, a leading U.S. defense technology startup, has launched an employee share tender offer that values the company at approximately $90 billion, according to a Bloomberg report published Wednesday. The privately held defense…
OpenAI bugging suspect allegedly booked one-way trip to Saudi Arabia
The Saudi national accused of bugging OpenAI's headquarters booked a one-way flight to Saudi Arabia before his arrest, US prosecutors have alleged. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer, had been scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia with his…
FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee accused of bugging office
While more information will likely come to light as the court case gets underway, here is what we know so far. Alfozan allegedly installed a listening device inserted into a USB port placed behind a television in a conference room at OpenAI's…
China is chipping away at America's AI advantage
Last week, Chinese AI giants Huawei and DeepSeek announced a new partnership to integrate DeepSeek's TileLang, a programming framework used for AI training and inference, into Huawei's Ascend chips. If successful, the deal could challenge one of…
Disrupt 2026: Day 2
Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is here at San Francisco's Moscone West. Explore innovative startups and solution providers in the Expo Hall, discover emerging technologies through live startup pitches, and use AI-powered matchmaking to connect…
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