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Silicon Valley founders' hottest funding source: the Bank of Best Friends
Katherine Naylor Pullman started Our Third Place, a networking group for women in media, as a part-time side project. It began four years ago with monthly, then weekly, dinners. Women in Chicago and Los Angeles reached out, wanting to host their…
Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises a mundane, financial one. In a commentary bluntly titled “It's Over,” the firm proclaimed that AI is about to obliterate the…
Bronx housing, retail site near planned new Metro-North station set to hit market
Himmel + Meringoff, which has developed, partnered in or managed 5 million square feet of prime Big Apple property mostly in Manhattan, plans to sell its outer-borough jewel. H+M and joint-venture partner Affinius Capital are exploring a sale of…
Golden Goose Names New Chief Consumer Officer
MILAN — Golden Goose has named Giorgio Belloli its new chief consumer officer. A Burberry and Farfetch alum, Belloli is tasked with leading global market and channel development, defining the strategic direction and governance models to…
Liberals pledge 'transit lounges' to free up hospital beds
Hospital overcrowding and ambulance ramping would be eased by a “transit lounge” scheme to shift patients out of emergency department beds sooner, the state opposition said in its latest election pledge. According to the $99 million…
BREAKING: Trump Taps Intel Chief Jay Clayton as AI Czar to Lead 'Super Intelligence Force
President Donald Trump has named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the administration's AI czar, tasking him with leading a newly formed White House task force on artificial intelligence that will deliver a report on the technology's…
Could a stalled Clarity Act slow crypto dealmaking?
The crypto industry had waited years for Congress to deliver what it has long wanted: a lasting U.S. rulebook for digital assets that would clarify which digital assets fall under the oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and…
The Transsion Story: How a Chinese Firm Conquered Africa's Tech Market
Few people in China have heard of Transsion Holdings, but hundreds of millions of people across the Global South use its phones. The firm, headquartered in China's southern tech hub of Shenzhen, has risen from obscurity to become a dominant player…
Startup success is rare enough in the UK without any more taxes
If our rare successes are taxed further, more of our spinouts will end up sold early to foreign buyers and we risk losing their IP, writes Dr Ben Miles Last week, we heard our new Prime Minister champion the UK as the future global…
Seahawks owner Vinod Khosla desperately needs a good PR person
It's fair to say that Seattle Seahawks owner Vinod Khosla and I have something in common: we're both fairly unfamiliar with how things work in each other's fields. Admittedly, I wasn't very familiar with him before he and his ownership group agreed…
The Agentic AI Super Cycle
The biggest technology revolutions of the past were driven by steam engines in the 1700s, railroads in the 1800s, electricity, cars, phones, planes, computers, and the internet in the 1900s. Now we are at the dawn of the Agentic AI revolution…
TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! On an average day in…
One southern state's rise is making it America's new 'economic center of gravity
DALLAS — As companies and capital flow away from traditional financial hubs like New York and California, one southern state is making an increasingly aggressive bid to become America's next financial powerhouse. Speaking with Fox News…
Stocks to watch on Oct 5: What is buzzing around these 20 companies
Anup Bagchi has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of HDFC Bank for a three-year term, following approval from the Reserve Bank of India. Bagchi brings over three decades of experience in financial services, with a…
The Sequence Radar - Issue 944 - Last Week in AI: Last Week in AI: OpenAI Connects the Dots, Gemini Levels Up, and Agents Cash In
Another installment of our series about recursive self-improvement. We dive into OpenAI and Gemini releases of this week. In the opinion section, we dive into the Jev revolution and the new explosion in decision model releases. We deep dive into…
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