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Hong Kong can bridge ASEAN's AI and industrial growth, says Paul Chan
Hong Kong will leverage its strengths in finance, innovation and talent to help ASEAN and regional partners capture opportunities arising from artificial intelligence and industrial upgrading, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Wednesday.
Luma, a Life-Sciences Investor, Debuts a $410 Million Fund
Good day: Investments in biomedical startups can take more than a decade to pay off. The structure of the new $410 million venture fund from life-sciences investor Luma Group reflects that and a bit more. Most venture-capital funds are 10-year…
White House plans to take water cyber pilot into other sectors
Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW The White House plans to apply the approach behind its Texas water cybersecurity pilot to other critical infrastructure sectors in the near future, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Thursday. Speaking…
Israel must invest in its universities for the future
For nearly three years, Israel and Jewish communities around the world have been living in a near-constant state of emergency. In Israel, our attention has been consumed by the Israel-Hamas War, the hostages, and the evolving threats posed by Iran…
Nasdaq invests $100 million in Kraken parent, eyeing 2027 launch of 'tokenized' stock trading
The venture capital arm of Nasdaq invested $100 million in the parent of crypto exchange Kraken to bring tokenized stocks to market in 2027. Nasdaq is making a big bet that tokenization of stocks and other assets are becoming part of the plumbing…
Exclusive | Florida Has Become the New Hotbed for Defense Startup Money
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Venture-capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz is launching a new regional headquarters in South Florida, focusing on defense investments two years after it fled the region following a short-lived crypto office in…
Bedford Group/TRANSEARCH Releases Interim Report on Board and Executive Compensation for the AI Industry
TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2026 /CNW/ -- Bedford Group/TRANSEARCH has released its first Interim Report on Board and Executive Compensation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Industry, providing a snapshot of compensation and governance practices across…
Billionaire entrepreneur Igor Tulchinsky sponsors Bayeux Tapestry London exhibit
The Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opened for visitors in London on Thursday, but the historic moment has been partially overshadowed by the outrage over its only listed sponsor - billionaire entrepreneur and investor Igor Tulchinsky - and his links to…
Blackstone swipes left on Bumble after doubling its investment
After almost seven years together, it looks like Blackstone and Bumble are splitting, and the private-equity giant is poised to walk away with a tidy return despite the dating app's massive stock decline. Blackstone first bought a majority stake in…
The $45 Billion Whitespace In Climate Resilience
Tenzin Seldon, Founder & Managing Partner, Pulse Fund. A year after the Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed close to 13,000 homes, Los Angeles had issued about one residential rebuild permit for every five homes it lost, and that…
How To Measure An Innovation Economy: South Korea
At Mind the Bridge, we are regularly asked to put numbers on something that is, by nature, hard to pin down: the health of an innovation ecosystem. Governments, corporates and investors all want the same thing: A benchmark that tells them how their…
Harvey hits $15.5b, Fox-Roku deal under scrutiny, and Archimed's new fund
• Harvey, an SF-based legal AI platform, raised $550m at a $15.5b post-money valuation. Diffusion and Lightspeed led, joined by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Coatue, Conviction, Elad Gill, Goldman Sachs, GIC, Evantic, Sapphire…
29 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In August, Led By AI Software And Semiconductors
A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board. More than a third of the companies to join last month were under 3 years old, underscoring how quickly some of today's…
Highstock, a B2B Marketplace for Surplus Beauty Inventory, Secures $30M Series A Led by a16z
Highstock, a business-to-business marketplace that helps beauty brands sell surplus inventory to vetted business buyers, has raised a $30 million series A, led by venture capital firm a16z. As part of the investment, Olivia Moore, AI partner at…
A string of controversies hits OpenAI, Anthropic
Emily Forlini here. OpenAI and Anthropic are no strangers to controversy, but over the past week the heat on them has snowballed from a steady flame to a full-blown dumpster fire. Let's start with OpenAI, which has had a particularly rough week.
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