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semafor.com - Jeronimo Gonzalez - Venture capital flows to Africa surge in 2025
Venture capital flows to Africa surge in 2025
Semafor

Venture capital flows to Africa soared last year, the latest sign the continent's economies are being shaped by investment, not aid. VC funds ploughed around $4 billion into African economies in 2025, up around fourfold from 2020 levels, helping to…

smh.com.au - Michael Koziol - I went to a prediction-market bar to 'monitor the situation'. Here's what I saw
I went to a prediction-market bar to 'monitor the situation'. Here's what I saw
The Sydney Morning Herald

Washington: It's effectively mandatory for American bars to have wall-to-wall televisions showing football, basketball and hockey. So the idea of instead screening CNN, the price of oil and the “Pentagon pizza index” seems…

bbc.co.uk - Natalie Sherman - OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43
OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43
BBC

Leonid Radvinsky via his website lr.com The owner of OnlyFans, a site known for its adult content that is credited with revolutionising the online porn industry, has died at the age of 43. Leonid Radvinsky, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in…

fortune.com - Lily Mae Lazarus - Startup Antithesis turns years of real-world chaos into hours of simulated mayhem-and key trading firms and crypto networks are paying close attention
Startup Antithesis turns years of real-world chaos into hours of simulated mayhem-and key trading firms and crypto networks are paying close attention
Fortune

Will Wilson wants to make sure the software running everything from your bank account to your favorite crypto exchange actually works—and his company Antithesis is rethinking how software has been tested for the last 80…

afr.com - Tess Bennett - OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor finds himself on both sides of disruption
OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor finds himself on both sides of disruption
Australian Financial Review

He's been the chief technology officer at Facebook and the chairman of Twitter. But Bret Taylor's current gig might be his most consequential. As chairman of OpenAI, the Silicon Valley giant behind ChatGPT, Taylor is at the very front of an…

scmp.com - Advertising partner - Forging Legacies: HK4FAMILIES
Forging Legacies: HK4FAMILIES
South China Morning Post

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Three years of intensive research and dialogue within Hong Kong's wealth ecosystem have culminated in the official launch of HK4FAMILIES. We move beyond conversation to…

asiatimes.com - Jan Krikke - Great AI divide: markets in America, systems in China
Great AI divide: markets in America, systems in China
Asia Times

The United States and China are forging divergent paths in artificial intelligence—paths that will shape economies, societies and the nature of power itself for generations to come. One is shaped by market forces, the other by a logic of…

thesun.co.uk - Shelby Brooks - Billionaire OnlyFans owner dies at 43 after long cancer battle
Billionaire OnlyFans owner dies at 43 after long cancer battle
The Sun

ONLYFANS owner and reclusive billionaire Leonid Radvinsky has died aged 43 after a long battle with cancer. His tragic passing was announced on Monday in a statement by the company. Your info will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy…

semafor.com - Ben Smith - View: 'We're not keeping up': Why the future of war still eludes US leaders
View: 'We're not keeping up': Why the future of war still eludes US leaders
Semafor

For Bob Work, the big red flag came with reports that Iran appeared to have damaged two half-billion-dollar radar installations at the outset of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. “The fact that we didn't have any air defense capabilities…

newswire.ca - BKR Capital - BKR Capital Announces the First Close for its $50M Fund II After Top-Quartile Performance of Debut Fund
BKR Capital Announces the First Close for its $50M Fund II After Top-Quartile Performance of Debut Fund
CNW

TORONTO, March 23, 2026 /CNW/ - BKR Capital announces the $20M first close of its second venture capital fund – Black Innovation Fund II – targeting $50 million to back the next generation of globally competitive Black-led technology…

newswire.ca - ROBOTERA Raises RMB 1 Billion in Strategic Round, Valuation Exceeds RMB 10 Billion with Broad Industry Support
ROBOTERA Raises RMB 1 Billion in Strategic Round, Valuation Exceeds RMB 10 Billion with Broad Industry Support
CNW

BEIJING, March 23, 2026 /CNW/ -- Robotics company ROBOTERA has closed a strategic funding round of RMB 1 billion, pushing its valuation past RMB 10 billion. The round saw participation from major new investors including Gaocheng Capital, Singtel…

koreatimes.co.kr - Park Jae-hyuk - POSCO International launches $16 mil. CVC fund for rare earths
POSCO International launches $16 mil. CVC fund for rare earths
The Korea Times

POSCO International said Monday it is accelerating efforts to build a stable global supply chain for heavy rare earth elements, a key component in electric vehicle (EV) motors, through the launch of its first corporate venture capital (CVC) fund.

tvline.com - Leo Noboru Lima - 15 TV Shows To Watch If You Like HBO's Industry
15 TV Shows To Watch If You Like HBO's Industry
TVLine

'Industry' has turned out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2020s in television — a mean, nasty, pull-no-punches immersion into the icy wilderness of the British stock market, conducted through first-rate storytelling in which…

fortune.com - Jeremy Kahn - Exclusive: Interloom, which wants to solve AI agents' 'tacit knowledge' problem, raises $16.5 million in VC funding
Exclusive: Interloom, which wants to solve AI agents' 'tacit knowledge' problem, raises $16.5 million in VC funding
Fortune

Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.” His great observation was that a large part of what constitutes expertise in any given…

thestar.com.my - Bitcoin struggles to hold US$70,000 as war fuels inflation fears
Bitcoin struggles to hold US$70,000 as war fuels inflation fears
The Star Online

NEW YORK: Bitcoin briefly slid below US$70,000 last Friday as inflation fears tied to the Iran war rattled markets, overshadowing a fresh regulatory win for cryptocurrencies in the United States. Bitcoin had fallen for three straight days after…

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