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How Instagram Became A Venture Capital Deal Engine
Closeup of woman's holding smartphones, connecting with social media, leaving comments, sending messages and sharing photos. Technology connecting people. For decades, venture capital depended on closed networks. Founders needed introductions.
What the SpaceX IPO means for markets
The SpaceX IPO is set to reshape the stock market. Elon Musk's rocket company filed paperwork for its long-awaited offering on Wednesday, set to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. The S-1 filing is the first look inside the company's finances…
PayPal Cofounder Luke Nosek Revealed As Billionaire, Per SpaceX's IPO Prospectus
The SpaceX board member and longtime partner of Peter Thiel joins the three-comma club thanks to his stake in Elon Musk's rocketmaking giant. SpaceX took another big step toward going public on Wednesday with the filing of its IPO prospectus. Among…
Hark raises over $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion post-money valuation to scale its AI foundation models and custom hardware · Digg
Today we're excited to announce over $700 million in Series A funding to accelerate our ambitions to realize a generational leap in computing. Hark is an AI lab building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world. We're pairing our own…
Trump Admin Takes Equity Stake in IBM and Other Quantum Computing Companies
After taking equity stakes in chipmakers and rare-earth element miners, the Trump administration has a new industry on its radar: quantum computing. On Thursday, the Department of Commerce announced that it was investing more than $2 billion in…
Trump postpones AI executive order, cites need to compete with China
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the U.S. position in its AI competition with China.
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
What will it take to launch the first must-have AI consumer product? Maybe $700 million. At least according to Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for an AI personal assistant, which said on Thursday that it had raised that much in a…
Biotech Insider Sounds the Alarm on His Industry
The U.S. biotechnology industry is healthier than it has been in years—stock prices and mergers and acquisitions are surging and companies are making breakthroughs in diseases, such as pancreatic cancer, that once seemed intractable. Yet the…
Nvidia's record results fail to impress investors
Shanaz Musafer Business reporter Chip giant Nvidia reported yet another record quarter with sales and profits beating expectations, seemingly suggesting there's no slowdown in sight for the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Nvidia is a central…
Bugcrowd launches reinforcement learning environments to train AI on real software vulnerabilities
Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc. today launched Reinforcement Learning Environments, a new offering that lets frontier artificial intelligence labs train models on real vulnerable software rather than synthetic test data. The…
Shein And Everlane Combination Tests The Limits Of Sustainable Consumers
Shein, which has been called the world's biggest fast fashion polluter is reportedly acquiring Everlane, a darling in sustainable circles. (Photo by Julie SEBADELHA / AFP) (Photo by JULIE SEBADELHA/AFP via Getty Images) A gut punch, is how Disney…
Is The Bond Market About To Break Washington
The bond market is beginning to force reality onto Washington, and it may ultimately force an end to the Iran war long before politicians or diplomats are willing to admit it. For months, investors have focused on missiles, retaliation headlines…
WPI receives $5M to start climate technology incubator
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $5 million to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to launch the Central Massachusetts Climatetech Hub Incubator. The funds will go toward developing incubator space with an emphasis on pilot-scale…
Maka Kids is redefining kids' screen time with a streaming app optimized for well-being, not engagement
In a media landscape dominated by Baby Shark and Skibidi Toilet, one startup is reimagining children's media by focusing on well-being, not watch time. Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed…
How the wealthiest families invest: CNBC and Addepar launch Family Office Portfolio Tracker
CNBC has teamed up with Addepar to provide a quarterly snapshot of family office portfolios. Addepar's data includes the portfolios of hundreds of family offices, representing a total of $1.4 trillion in assets. In first quarter, the Family Office…
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