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Commodity Markets May Unlock Trillions In AI Infrastructure Investment
Tom Traugott, SVP of Emerging Technologies at EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure. The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to cross $1 trillion in annual investment by 2027, with no credible sign of contraction. The record-setting…
How Cypherpunks Lost The Argument But Won The Outcome
Jacob D. Frankel (Kobi), CEO of Beyond Alpha Ventures and Beyond Equity Global Marketplace, Creator of Beyond.AI. One of the most consequential developments in blockchain over the past two years did not happen on a blockchain. It happened in…
SpaceX has some of the world's biggest investors on board. Meet 10 of its top shareholders.
No surprises here. Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, owns roughly 6.42 billion shares, or about 49% of the company. Massive stakes in SpaceX and Tesla have made Musk by far the world's wealthiest person. His net worth stood at $860 billion…
Makers Fund expands game industry footprint
Chris Kerr, Senior Editor, News,GameDeveloper.com August 20, 2026 Venture capital firm Makers Fund has closed a fourth investment round worth $250 million, meaning it now has $1.5 billion in total assets under management. The fund, which…
Shein pushes back Hong Kong debut to September amid delayed orders: sources
Fast-fashion retailer Shein Global Holdings has pushed back its Hong Kong market debut until September 1, after a small delay in taking investor orders for its initial public offering (IPO) at a reduced valuation, according to sources familiar with…
Airtree reads the riot act to start-ups falling behind in the AI race
Airtree Ventures has put founders of its vast portfolio of companies on notice that it will sell out of start-ups if they cannot show that their businesses are safe from the massive disruption caused by artificial intelligence. The warning from one…
Makers Fund raises $250m in fourth round to support interactive entertainment startups
Venture capital firm Makers Fund has secured $250 million to invest in startups advancing games and interactive entertainment. This brings its total assets under management to $1.5 billion. Founded in 2016, Makers Fund raised $180 million in its…
Are you ready to short the Blackhawks or go long on the Cubs? FutureSports could help
Illegal sports betting was mainstreamed into fantasy sports, which gave way to legalized state sports betting, which paved the way for prediction markets. And now, those prediction markets, like Kalshi, Polymarket and Novig, have deals with sports…
A Venture Capitalist Spent $100 Creating A Fake Sorority Girl. TikTok Didn't Notice.
Olivia Moore, a partner on the investing team at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), recently published a post on her social media experiment. Moore engineered “Janie,” a red-haired 19-year-old, using a single image…
Exclusive: Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part
The nuclear power industry is undergoing something of a renaissance, with startups raking in funding to develop advanced reactors in a quest to lower costs. But based on recent projections, it's unlikely those reactors will be cost-competitive…
Skan AI's new round, Atlanta Falcons's $10.6B valuation, Crestline's $625M fund
• Skan AI, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based operational intelligence platform, raised $63m. Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital led, joined by Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures and Wipro Ventures. Go deeper •…
Liverpool: What does Jeff Bezos' Liverpool deal mean?
Aadam Patel, Football reporter and , Sports editor When it was revealed on Tuesday that Fenway Sports Group (FSG) had actually sold about 38% of Liverpool to 1892 Holdings, there was certainly an element of confusion. On Friday, the understanding…
Israeli AI-based start-up Dondy acquired by UK holding company Circeus
An Israeli AI -based start-up has been acquired by British technology holding company Circeus less than two years after its launch, in a deal estimated at several million dollars. The start-up, Dondy, creates AI agents which manage customer…
Is every billionaire a policy failure?
Recently I was eating at an outside cafe when a man walked by me wearing a shirt that said, “Every billionaire is a policy failure.” But is that really true? Apparently, he is not the only one who feels this way. At about the same…
Portfolio review takes on a new urgency for VCs as AI makes 2024's great deals look like 2026's clear mistakes
In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Matthew Broderick famously winks straight into the camera: “Life moves pretty fast.” Life does move fast, but AI might move even faster. I talk to VCs all day, and it recently occurred to me: Though…
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