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6 Ways AI Is Transforming Product Development
Traditional businesses use AI to automate existing workflows. AI-first startups reimagine products from the ground up, embedding intelligence into their core architecture. Through AI-assisted coding, automated testing and predictive engineering…
SpaceX's first employee, Tom Mueller, thinks the historic IPO is just the beginning
The guy who built SpaceX's engines has thoughts on its IPO. Tom Mueller was employee No. 1 at SpaceX. He built the engines behind the Falcon 9 rocket that rewrote the economics of getting to orbit. Now, he runs Impulse Space, valued at $4.26…
Movement Or Fad? The Question Every CPG Brand Must Answer
Keren Novack is the President of Curion Insights, a consumer research firm providing insight to the top CPG companies. Walk the aisles of any grocery store and you'll see them: products positioning themselves as part of the next big…
They can walk and talk. How soon will humanlike robots be working beside us?
Humanoid robots walk like people. Carry things like people. Even dance with moves that look human. But can they grow up to do real work on an industrial scale? That's a question the robotics industry is struggling with as it looks to build a…
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source
After you've worked on rockets that find their way to outer space, it can be hard to come up with a second act. For SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd, it meant looking deep in the ocean. Redd, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, a region affected by…
Brookfield Corporation (BN) Renews Normal Course Issuer Bid to Repurchase 10% of Public Float
Brookfield Corporation (NYSE: BN) is one of the best Canadian stocks to invest in according to billionaires. On May 25, Brookfield Corporation received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange to renew its normal course issuer bid, authorizing the…
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What's really driving social trends today in 2026
It's 2026, not 2016, and the mechanics of what makes content work have fundamentally shifted. Content's hold on culture is stronger than ever, but the rules of who breaks through, how, and how fast have changed. Consider how different the landscape…
SpaceX IPO won't 'break' the bull market. But investors are worried about what comes next
Wall Street expects that the stock market to digest the new equity supply from SpaceX's initial public offering. SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion capital raise will absorb just a little over two weeks of shareholder payouts, according to Gavekal…
Elon Musk's Net Worth Hits $982 Billion As SpaceX IPO Price Set
S paceX priced its IPO at $135 per share Thursday, implying a $1.8 trillion market cap for the company. That boosted Musk's net worth by $188 billion to an estimated $982 billion, according to Forbes' calculations. If Tesla's share price remains…
Horizon Accelerator Expands Advisory Board with Four New Members
UC San Diego's Horizon Accelerator has expanded its advisory board with four new appointments, whose experience spans venture capital, intellectual property (IP) law, public policy and technology. The new advisory board members are: Douglas Cohen…
Coram raised $35 million to turn security cameras into AI detectives
Most security cameras are useful only after something has gone wrong. Coram AI wants to change that. The Bay Area startup has raised $35 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-powered physical security platform, bringing its total capital…
From Detention Camp Site To Global Fame: New Book Chronicles 7-Decade Journey Of IIT
New Delhi: A new book chronicling the journey of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), from their post-Independence origins to their current role in India's innovation economy, is set to be launched at IIT-Delhi on June 20. Titled 'IIT: The…
Innovation and integration are evolving the GBA from a safe harbour to a global contender
“I would claim there's nothing in economic history like what we have right now [with] the GBA. This is the world's largest, most ambitious, and most exciting economic experiment,” Hu said. This bold statement can be backed up with…
Silicon Valley insiders warn U.S. defense supply chain is unprepared for modern warfare
To compete with China, the U.S. defense industry must leverage private venture capital and dual-use technologies to overhaul the defense playbook in the age of AI. That is a point that leading technology executives and venture capitalists drove…
Koho raises C$130M, PhoenixAI pulls $80M and Very's bidder group grows
• Koho, a Canadian neobank focused on the underbanked, raised C$130m from Mubadala, Savano Capital, Portage Ventures, Drive Capital, BDC Capital, HOOPP, and Eldridge. Go deeper • PhoenixAI, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based agentic database…
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