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'Combine your passion with an investment strategy': Meet the venture capital using 500,000 Pokémon and trading cards as a hedge against a debt crisis
The U.S. national debt is more than $40 trillion, and it's only growing from here. Wage growth keeps stalling ; job growth is staying stagnant ; and grocery prices are trending up. With the 10-year Treasury yield nearing 5% as heavy government…
Dollars and doomers in the AI safety debate
I don't know if AI is going to destroy humanity. Neither do you. But here's what I do know: It's very difficult to have a sober conversation about this when there's so much money at stake. This isn't an accusation of dishonesty. It's an observation…
AI Buying Platforms Will Manage 27% of U.S. Ad Spend by 2030: Report
The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry's top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what's next. Get your ticket. After becoming a $1 trillion industry for the first time in 2024, a new forecast…
Can Canada turn trust into global investment?
“Canada has a lot of trust,” says Benjamin Bergen, CEO of the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA). “First there's trust, then there's capital, and then there's trade.” A new CVCA event is…
Polymarket Names First CFO; Macy's Bets on Pricier Products
Good morning. There are more moves in the C-suite, this time in the booming prediction-markets sector. Polymarket named Warren Jenson as its first companywide CFO, who joins at a pivotal time as the company looks to expand its market share. The…
Opinion | Don't Tax the Unicorns
Economists keep warning politicians that incentives matter, and the latest teachable moment concerns taxation and innovation. New research suggests how sensitive investors in start-up companies are to changes in tax policy, and what this means for…
Coalition will ditch Victoria's state-owned VC fund
State-owned venture capital fund Breakthrough Victoria will be abolished and its investments divested if a Coalition government is elected in the state in November. The fund had “comprehensively failed” to deliver on its promise to…
What's the Right Amount of AI Regulation?
Good day: It seems like everywhere I look these days I'm running into debate about AI regulation. An Anthropic researcher just quit his position over concerns that the company and its competitors won't be able to control the AI models they're…
Four Days, Two Markets: How the AI Capital Market Split Into Two Games
Between September 8 and September 11, 2026, the artificial intelligence capital market underwent a definitive split. Four major funding events in four days did not merely signal high activity; they mapped the geography of a new, bifurcated…
1789 Capital-Backed Firehawk Seeks Funds at $1.25 Billion Value
Firehawk Aerospace is in talks for a private funding round valuing the defense technology company at $1.25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which counts venture firm 1789 Capital as an investor, is seeking to…
Every Powerful Leader Has One Powerful Weakness
In 2018, I realized I wasn't firm enough in negotiations, so I decided to learn from the toughest people I knew. The first person who came to mind was a remarkable entrepreneur whose company our venture capital fund had invested in back in 2012. To…
AI Is Going Rogue: 3 Stocks I'm Buying (NASDAQ:AIQ)
AI safety concerns are intensifying as key researchers are quitting, citing concerns that the AI industry is racing to build self-improving superintelligence that could spiral out of human control. As leading labs face repeated loss-of-control…
37 deep-tech innovations on display at Bharat Innovates Exposition on Sep 11-12
India's 37 deep-tech innovations are being showcased at the 'Bharat Innovates Exposition' at Bharat Mandapam here from September 11 to 12 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, officials said on Friday (September 11, 2026). An advanced floating…
Rich Greenfield on AI's Value in Investing - and Why Spotify Doesn't Get Enough Credit
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Artificial intelligence is fueling booms in startups and creating opportunities for investors looking to participate in seed and early round funding for companies that could reshape industries like…
India's 37 deep-tech innovations are being showcased at the 'Bharat Innovates Exposition
India's 37 deep-tech innovations are being showcased at the 'Bharat Innovates Exposition' at Bharat Mandapam here from September 11 to 12 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, officials said on Friday. Advanced floating solar PV platform for…
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