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Prediction markets make America's moral downfall a safe bet
It would have been hard for President Trump to miss the sea of banners touting sports betting when he attended Game Three of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. The Garden is festooned with ads for the Knicks' “ Official…
New York leads, but Asia-Pacific's financial hubs are on the rise
Asia-Pacific cities account for 39 per cent of the top global financial services companies and about 36 per cent of the world's leading financial centres, Colliers said. Supported by strong labour markets and venture capital activity, cities such…
Why Founders Are Rewriting The Traditional Capital Stack
Why Founders Are Rewriting The Traditional Capital Stack For decades, the startup funding playbook looked largely the same. Founders raised money from friends and family, secured angel investors, pursued venture capital and, in some cases…
AI Coding Agents Write 180% More Code But Ship Only 30% More Software
TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 3: Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled 'Transforming Business through AI' in Tokyo, Japan, on February 03, 2025. SoftBank and OpenAI announced that…
UK startup Applied Atomics to enter US market with focus on military space mobility
WASHINGTON — U.K.-based startup Applied Atomics has raised $4 million in pre-seed financing and established a U.S. presence as it seeks to carve out a position in the market for spacecraft mobility, a sector attracting interest from military…
Two rival grocery delivery founders land Nvidia's backing with a bet on math
Two founders who once competed in New York's cutthroat grocery-delivery wars are now building a startup together — this time focused on math software. Oleg Shevlyagin and Anton Gladkoborodov, whose rival companies 1520 and Fridge No More…
AI drug discovery leaders warn U.S. health funding cuts risk falling behind global rivals
Washington pulled tens of billions from national health funding just as healthcare and biotech hit its ChatGPT moment. At Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen this week, the people building AI drug discovery said (more or less) that the U.S. government…
SpaceX is the hottest trade on college campuses
While it's a great school, my undergrad alma mater — Washington University in St. Louis — hasn't always had a lot to cheer about when it comes to athletics. When I was enrolled in the early 2000s, the women's basketball and volleyball…
Meet the CMO trying to make nuclear fusion cool
A fusion startup backed by billions in funding is preparing for a different kind of test: capturing consumer attention. Joe Paluska is the chief marketing officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, an energy startup hoping to commercialize zero-carbon…
Starbucks stock is a bright spot in Wednesday's bleak market. Here's why
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq were headed for back-to-back losses. A rise…
We're Running In The Wrong AI Race
Victor Paraschiv is an AI scientist, founder and CTO of Broadn, and was an early pioneer in the training of the first LLMs on legal datasets Most observers misunderstand the AI race between China and the U.S. The dominant narrative suggests the…
This $2.2 Billion AI Startup Is Helping The Country's Largest Landlords With Admin Work
Before starting EliseAI CEO Minna Song took a front-desk job at a real estate firm in Manhattan to learn the problems property manager and residents face. If you're interested in renting an apartment in one of Equity Residential's 300 properties…
Google for Brazil 2026: Helping people make the most of AI
Today at our annual Google for Brazil event, we showcased how our most advanced AI products and platforms are helping Brazilians thrive: from Gemini acting as your personal assistant to specialized AI experiences. We continue to invest in the…
VCs can't get enough of legal startups. Andreessen Horowitz just invested in one taking work from patent lawyers.
Legal tech giant Harvey is racing to help lawyers work faster. Startup Fearn wants to help inventors get further before they ever call a lawyer. The startup has raised $5.5 million to build AI software that lets inventors draft patents themselves.
Private credit lenders say their big software bet faces an AI reckoning - but not a 'SaaSpocalypse
The AI shock is forcing investors to separate resilient, mission-critical software companies from more vulnerable business models. Private credit's heavy exposure to software faces a major test, as AI challenges assumptions around software growth…
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