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Anthropic backs Goodfire in $50M Series A funding to decode AI models, marking first-ever startup investment

Anthropic just made its first startup investment—and it’s a telling one. The AI startup behind the popular chatbot Claude has invested $1 million in Goodfire, a San Francisco-based company working to ‘break open the black box of generative AI models’ […]

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Uber in talks to acquire Turkish food delivery startup Trendyol Go

Uber is looking to make a comeback in Turkey—and this time, it’s betting on food. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. ride-hailing and delivery giant is in talks to acquire food delivery startup Trendyol Go, a key player in Turkey’s booming […]

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Top 5 Data Resources for Training AI Models for Stock Market Analysis

AI is transforming how traders analyze the stock market—scanning massive volumes of data to uncover patterns, trends, and opportunities that might otherwise go unnoticed. But for these models to deliver real value, they must be trained on clean, high-frequency data. […]

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Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash, a multimodal AI model built for speed, scale, and affordability

Google just dropped a new AI model into the mix: Gemini 2.5 Flash, and it’s already turning heads. This preview release is aimed at developers and businesses looking for something smart, fast, and budget-friendly. Google is calling it a “workhorse […]

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Four Ways AI Is Transforming Fintech

Comparisons between AI and the early internet are unavoidable. So let’s get them out of the way: we’re fast approaching a time where apps without AI will seem as unthinkable as doing business without the internet. Right now, there’s lot […]

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Judge finds Google guilty of illegal monopoly in online ad markets, DOJ antitrust case advances

Alphabet’s advertising empire just took a major hit. A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google illegally dominated two key markets in online advertising, marking a significant win for the U.S. Department of Justice in its ongoing antitrust battle with the […]

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This founder’s $195M startup dream turned into a nightmare over coffee

With thousands of headlines flooding our feeds every day—funding rounds, product launches, and the latest unicorns—it’s easy for founders to get swept up in the noise. That’s why we pay attention to just a few voices that cut through the […]

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Foundation EGI, an MIT spinoff, emerges from stealth with $7.6M seed round backed by Samsung & Henry Ford Health

Foundation EGI, an AI engineering startup spun out of MIT, has officially launched from stealth with a $7.6 million seed round. The funding was led by E14 Fund and Union Lab Ventures, with participation from Samsung Next, GRIDS Capital, Stata […]

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Global Payments acquires Worldpay in $22.7B deal to rival Stripe, PayPal, and Adyen

Global Payments is going all-in on merchant services. The Atlanta-based fintech firm announced Thursday it’s acquiring Worldpay from FIS and private equity firm GTCR in a $22.7 billion deal—one of the biggest moves in the payments space this year. The […]

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Workplace Management in the Hybrid Era: Adapting to New Realities

Adapting workplace management strategies to the hybrid era has become a critical priority for organizations aiming to thrive in today’s evolving work landscape. The rise of hybrid work, where employees divide their time between remote and in-office work, has transformed […]

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OpenAI in talks to acquire AI coding assistant startup Windsurf for $3 billion

OpenAI is reportedly in discussions to acquire Windsurf, the AI coding startup formerly known as Codeium, for around $3 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the deal. If the deal goes through, it would be the company’s biggest acquisition […]

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OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini: Smarter and faster reasoning AI models built to think like agents

Less than a week after supercharging ChatGPT’s memory in a major leap toward AGI, OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled two new AI models, o3 and o4-mini, calling them the company’s “smartest and most capable models to date.” Both bring a new […]

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Design startup Figma eyes Wall Street: Files confidentially for IPO after $20B Adobe acquisition collapse

Design platform Figma has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public, the company announced Tuesday. The filing dropped the same day Figma caught heat on social media after sending a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable, […]

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The Real Impact of Emerging Tech Startups on Traditional Industries

Emerging tech startups continue to alter how traditional industries operate, shifting standards and setting new benchmarks for efficiency, reach, and accessibility. These shifts are not speculative, they’re very much measurable, structural, and rooted in specific technological deployments. Startups are not […]

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Car rental startup Turo lays off 15% of workforce after halting IPO plans amid market uncertainty

Turo, the San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car rental startup often described as the “Airbnb for cars,” has laid off around 150 employees, roughly 15% of its team, after shelving plans to go public. The news, first reported by Bloomberg, comes as […]

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Meet Neue Alchemy: The venture studio founded by an ex-Amazon executive turning AI ideas into real-world startups

Isaiah Steinfeld, a former Amazon executive who helped steer global startup growth at AWS, has launched something new—and it’s built for the post-AI era. After working with over 330,000 startups through AWS programs like Activate and helping shape strategy for […]

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