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fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
1 week ago

OpenAI secures record-breaking $110B funding

OpenAI secured $110 billion in funding from SoftBank, Nvidia, and Amazon to expand AI infrastructure and reach consumers, developers, and enterprises globally.
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fromBusiness Insider
16 hours ago

17 creator-economy startups to watch in 2026, according to VCs

AI-powered tools are transforming the creator economy by automating content production, influencer marketing, and business operations while enabling new monetization models.
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fromAlleywatch
3 hours ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/9/2026

NYC startups Covariance and TradeZing secured funding on 3/9/2026, with Covariance raising $11M for machine learning and TradeZing raising $800K for AI-powered social investing.
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fromAlleywatch
4 days ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/5/2026

NYC startups secured significant funding on 3/5/2026, with Sage raising $65M Series C for senior care platforms, Antioch raising $8.4M for robotics simulation, and Traversal raising $5M for AI-powered incident management.
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fromFortune
13 hours ago

Robinhood wants everyone to be able to invest in hot startups like Databricks and Ramp, but how much risk will investors take on? | Fortune

Robinhood launched an investment fund enabling retail traders to access private companies like Databricks and Ramp, continuing its mission to democratize investment tools previously reserved for institutional investors.
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fromFortune
7 hours ago

Billionaire Peter Diamandis offers $3.5 million to filmmakers who portray AI as the hero-not the villain | Fortune

Peter Diamandis launches a $3.5 million XPRIZE to promote optimistic science fiction films countering dystopian narratives about AI and technology's future.
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from24/7 Wall St.
9 hours ago

Lumentum Soars After S&P Rebalance Ahead of Vertiv, EchoStar, and Coherent

Four stocks added to the S&P 500 on Friday showed strong gains on their first full trading day Monday, with Lumentum leading at 10.4% despite the broader index declining 0.53%.
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fromBusiness Matters
10 hours ago

Nick Clegg and Sheryl Sandberg join board of British AI start-up Nscale

Nscale, a British AI infrastructure start-up founded in May 2024, raised $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation with Nick Clegg and Sheryl Sandberg joining its board, positioning it to build large-scale data centres for AI development.
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fromBusiness Insider
6 hours ago
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Brazilian AI startup fund Shiva raised $10 million, and it's betting on tiny teams. Read its pitch deck.

Shiva, a Brazilian startup fund, raised $10 million to back AI-powered niche software startups with one to three founders, providing monthly grants capped at $300,000 per company.
fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago
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In the AI boom, startups are speedrunning unicorn status

AI startups are raising capital so frequently that many exceed unicorn valuations before publication, forcing them off future unicorn lists.
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fromBusiness Insider
6 hours ago

Brazilian AI startup fund Shiva raised $10 million, and it's betting on tiny teams. Read its pitch deck.

Shiva, a Brazilian startup fund, raised $10 million to back AI-powered niche software startups with one to three founders, providing monthly grants capped at $300,000 per company.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago

In the AI boom, startups are speedrunning unicorn status

AI startups are raising capital so frequently that many exceed unicorn valuations before publication, forcing them off future unicorn lists.
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fromHarvard Business Review
12 hours ago

What Successful Corporate Venture Capital Funds Do Differently

Corporate venture capital funds frequently dissolve or become absorbed into other departments despite delivering solid investment returns, revealing a systemic organizational challenge beyond financial performance.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 hours ago

Trump family's defense investments grow with new drone deal

America had been losing the drone race for a while to countries like China, said Velicovich, a US Army special operations veteran who wrote a book called Drone Warrior. That era is over. We're entering the era of American drone dominance.
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from24/7 Wall St.
7 hours ago

Ondas Just Unlocked $1 Billion In Prime Defense Contracts

Ondas said Q4 revenue landed between $29.1 million and $30.1 million, comfortably above the $27 million to $29 million range it had guided to in January. For the full year, revenue came in at $49.7 million to $50.7 million versus prior guidance of $47.6 million to $49.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA losses narrowed in line with expectations, and the company reiterated its 2026 revenue target of $170 million to $180 million.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

Military Drone Company Tied To Trump's Sons Announces Bizarre Merger With a Golf Course Operator'

Trump's sons have invested in multiple drone companies that are securing military contracts and merging with other businesses to form publicly traded entities.
fromWIRED
15 hours ago

Can AI Kill the Venture Capitalist?

ADIN uses AI to replace the human analysts involved in venture dealmaking. Put in a startup's pitch deck, and out comes a detailed analysis of its business model and founding team, a list of diligence questions and compliance risks, an estimate of the total addressable market, and a suggested valuation. ADIN has about a dozen different agentic investors, each with a distinct persona and investing thesis.
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fromAlleywatch
10 hours ago

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 3/9/26

Eighteen startups raised $1.5B in funding during the week ending 3/7/26, with Grow Therapy leading at $150M for online mental health services.
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from24/7 Wall St.
13 hours ago

Oracle Leads Data Center Stocks as Applied Digital and CoreWeave Sink

Oracle gained 5.20% on AI cloud momentum and analyst upgrade, but faced headwinds from Stargate data center expansion cancellation, while CoreWeave and Applied Digital declined amid earnings fallout and legal concerns.
from24/7 Wall St.
9 hours ago

Redwire and Bridger Aerospace Are Drawing New Analyst Attention in the Aerospace Sector

Truist's upgrade centers on two key arguments. First, the firm believes that the improving program mix and further progress on development contracts lends more confidence that estimate-at-completion charges should potentially moderate in coming periods - a direct response to the EAC adjustments that have repeatedly pressured margins. Second, new CFO Chris Edmunds has set low and achievable targets for 2026, which frames the guidance range of $450 million to $500 million in revenue as a floor rather than a stretch.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
12 hours ago

How Nasa contractors are pressing on to bring humans to the moon with Artemis

NASA restructured its Artemis program, delaying the first crewed lunar landing to 2028, which creates both challenges and opportunities for private space contractors like Lunar Outpost.
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fromLindsey Gamble
3 days ago

Evereden Launches Generation E: Equity for Teenage Gen Alpha Creators - Lindsey Gamble

Evereden granted equity stakes to three teenage creators (ages 14-17), making them owners who participate in product development, testing, and marketing while gaining long-term financial upside and business learning opportunities.
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fromTNW | Startups-Technology
3 days ago

DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A

DealFlowAgent, an AI-native investment bank for small business M&A, raised $750,000 from prominent venture backers to address information gaps in business sales by combining human advisers with AI agents that track buyer preferences and streamline deal processes.
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fromFortune
1 day ago
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To justify a $1.5 trillion market cap after its IPO, SpaceX would need to earn more than Berkshire Hathaway. Today, it earns zero. | Fortune

fromFortune
4 days ago
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SpaceX is poised to raise more money in its IPO than was raised in last year's 90 IPOs, combined | Fortune

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1 day ago
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To justify a $1.5 trillion market cap after its IPO, SpaceX would need to earn more than Berkshire Hathaway. Today, it earns zero. | Fortune

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fromFortune
4 days ago

SpaceX is poised to raise more money in its IPO than was raised in last year's 90 IPOs, combined | Fortune

SpaceX's anticipated IPO could raise approximately $50 billion at a $1.5 trillion valuation, exceeding all 90 IPOs from the previous year combined and generating unprecedented fees for Wall Street banks.
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fromTNW | Fintech-Ecommerce
3 days ago

TaxDown secures 4M financing to expand AI tax platform

TaxDown doubled revenue in 2025, achieved profitability, and secured €4 million in EU-backed debt financing to scale its AI-powered tax platform while maintaining capital efficiency.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago

Alphabet CEO could earn up to $692M under a new equity package that's linked to Waymo for the first time

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai receives a $692M equity package with performance metrics tied to Waymo and Wing, signaling these ventures are now core business assets rather than experimental moonshots.
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fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Robinhood's startup fund stumbles in NYSE debut | TechCrunch

Robinhood's venture fund raised $658.4 million from retail investors seeking private company exposure, but underperformed expectations and traded below its offering price, unlike the more successful Destiny Tech100 fund.
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from24/7 Wall St.
2 days ago

TQQQ Holders Face a Risk That Has Nothing to Do With the Nasdaq Falling

TQQQ's daily reset mechanism creates volatility decay that erodes returns in choppy markets, even when the underlying index remains relatively unchanged.
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fromBusiness Matters
3 days ago

Silverflow raises $40m Series B funding as cloud-native payments platform nears one billion transactions annually

Silverflow raised $40 million in Series B funding to expand its cloud-native payment processing platform globally and modernize legacy payment infrastructure.
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fromFortune
3 days ago
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February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo | Fortune

fromFortune
3 days ago
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Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year-but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data | Fortune

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fromFortune
3 days ago

February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo | Fortune

Global venture funding reached $189 billion in February 2025, with 83% concentrated in three AI companies: OpenAI ($110B), Anthropic ($30B), and Waymo ($16B), while seed-stage funding declined 11% year-over-year.
fromFortune
3 days ago
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Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year-but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data | Fortune

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fromFortune
3 days ago
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Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says if he were 25 today, he'd chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI | Fortune

fromFortune
3 days ago
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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes AI will be able to do 80% of all jobs by 2030. Here's how life could be affordable after mass unemployment | Fortune

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fromFortune
3 days ago

Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says if he were 25 today, he'd chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI | Fortune

Kevin O'Leary identifies AI implementation for small businesses and data center development as the two most lucrative opportunities for entrepreneurs starting in tech today.
fromFortune
3 days ago
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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes AI will be able to do 80% of all jobs by 2030. Here's how life could be affordable after mass unemployment | Fortune

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from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Lumentum, Coherent, and Vertiv Added to the S&P 500 As AI Stocks Dominate Rebalancing

Lumentum, Coherent, and Vertiv joined the S&P 500, signaling AI infrastructure has transitioned from speculative to structurally embedded in the economy through forced institutional buying of over $7 trillion in benchmarked assets.
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fromSecurityWeek
3 days ago

Data Security Firm Evervault Raises $25 Million in Series B Funding

Evervault raised $25 million in Series B funding to expand infrastructure and develop encryption technology that keeps sensitive data encrypted throughout processing without accessing plaintext.
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fromSecurityWeek
3 days ago

ArmorCode Raises $16 Million for Exposure Management Platform

ArmorCode raised $16 million in strategic funding, bringing total raised to $81 million, to accelerate AI exposure management platform development and market expansion.
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fromEntrepreneur
3 days ago

HeartRock Partners, Alec Shankman's Creator-Focused Firm, Closes Seven-Figure Investment Round

HeartRock Partners, a Cleveland-based management and entertainment firm founded by former Gersh executive Alec Shankman, secured a seven-figure investment round from retail, manufacturing, and consumer products industry veterans.
fromwww.dw.com
3 days ago

Vista Rica: Inside the investment fund of Serbia's elite

A 2022 change to Serbia's Law on Personal Income Tax allows high-earners to pay up to half of their annual tax obligation into an AIF instead of into the state coffers. The government says that the aim was to stimulate investment. Critics say it significantly reduces the amount of tax paid by wealthy investors.
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fromFortune
3 days ago

OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, a vocal Trump critic, agrees with the president on AI and China: 'We are in a techno-economic war' | Fortune

Vinod Khosla supports Trump's AI and China policies despite disagreeing with most other administration positions, viewing U.S.-China competition as a critical techno-economic war requiring American technological dominance.
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fromFortune
3 days ago

Meet the breakout VC who goes deep to make a '360-degree' behavioral map before investing in founders | Fortune

Adam Zeplain uses a deeply psychological approach to venture capital, prioritizing understanding founders' character and relationships over traditional financial metrics to predict success.
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fromInfoQ
4 days ago

OpenAI Secures AWS Distribution for Frontier Platform in $110B Multi-Cloud Deal

OpenAI secured $110 billion in funding with Amazon investing $50 billion as exclusive distributor for Frontier, splitting cloud strategy between Azure for stateless APIs and AWS for stateful runtime environments.
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fromPrivacy International
3 days ago

Dual-use tech: the Skydio example

Skydio transitioned from consumer drones to defense-focused manufacturing, securing major US military contracts and achieving $2.2 billion valuation by 2024.
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fromComputerworld
3 days ago

China announces new plans to take US industry head on

China aims to increase digital economy share to 12.5% of GDP by 2030 and boost funding for start-ups in advanced technologies to compete with the US.
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Alphabet Could Simply Be the Best Tech Stock to Own - and It's Still Cheap

Alphabet remains the world's dominant digital advertising powerhouse, with a sprawling empire that includes the likes of Google Search, YouTube, and an absolutely giant (and fast-growing) cloud business that spews off an incredible amount of cash flow for investors.
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fromFortune
3 days ago
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This VC backed CrowdStrike and Anduril. His due diligence starts with your father | Fortune

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fromFortune
4 days ago

Polychain raises $200 million for fourth crypto VC fund, shakes up staff | Fortune

Polychain Capital raised $200 million in its fourth fund's first close, targeting $400 million total, signaling continued venture interest in crypto despite market downturns.
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fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

Gerard Lopez, a fast-paced life, between entrepreneurship and passion

Gérard Lopez built a successful career through passion, risk-taking, and innovation, from early internet investments to motorsports ventures, driven by an unwavering determination to succeed.
fromFortune
3 days ago
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This VC backed CrowdStrike and Anduril. His due diligence starts with your father | Fortune

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fromFuturism
4 days ago

Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

Venture capital investors are increasingly skeptical of AI startups lacking genuine differentiation beyond user interface and automation, demanding deep workflow integration and proprietary data instead.
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fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

Why a former Khosla partner who was one of the first investors in Groq is striking out on her own

Sandhya Venkatachalam launched Axiom Partners with a $52 million fund to make contrarian AI infrastructure and category-defining company bets at earliest stages with $100,000 to $2.5 million checks.
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fromFast Company
4 days ago

How to get funded in 2026 if you're not an AI startup in San Francisco

Physical-world companies face structural funding challenges requiring stacked capital sources and disciplined execution rather than single institutional rounds.
fromFortune
4 days ago
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Polychain raises $200 million for fourth crypto VC fund, shakes up staff | Fortune

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from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

KKR's CEOs Bought 175,000 Shares While Retail Investors Fled

KKR stock declined 25.23% year-to-date despite record $3.71 billion in full-year Fee Related Earnings and $129 billion in new capital raised, with private credit concerns and compressed yield spreads driving retail investor skepticism.
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Quantum scale-up Pasqal plans $2B SPAC listing, promises to 'remain French' | TechCrunch

Pasqal is a full-stack quantum computing company taking on Big Tech. It generates annual revenue in the tens of millions from selling hardware, software and cloud services to labs and industry partners.
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from247wallst.com
3 days ago

Midstream Dividends From EPD, Williams, and ONEOK Are Built to Survive Oil Price Chaos

Midstream energy companies with fee-based models provide dividend stability regardless of oil prices, while integrated oil majors like Chevron face direct earnings exposure to crude fluctuations.
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fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers | TechCrunch

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang states the company's recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last in both firms, as public offerings close investment opportunities in consequential companies.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

3 Stocks Outside of Tesla Elon Musk Would Buy Today - Should You?

Elon Musk favors technology stocks with AI potential, particularly Alphabet, which has advanced AI models, strong cloud growth, and competitive advantages in autonomous vehicles through Waymo.
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fromFortune
4 days ago

The Pentagon is committing $150M to a maritime tech VC fund and appears to be ramping up venture deals | Fortune

The Pentagon commits $150 million to Mare Liberum, a maritime technology venture fund, as part of its strategic capital program supporting critical national security technologies.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

The Equal-Weight S&P 500 is Quietly Crushing the Market in 2026

The Magnificent Seven tech stocks face delays in AI monetization, making equal-weight S&P 500 strategies potentially more attractive for diversified market exposure.
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fromFortune
4 days ago

Why Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund is betting big on power companies and bitcoin miners to fuel the AI boom | Fortune

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund bets on massive power generation infrastructure based on his thesis that AGI development requires exponential computational scaling and will reshape geopolitics and economics.
fromSecurityWeek
4 days ago

Reclaim Security Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Remediation

Security tools are excellent at explaining why something is risky. What they don't do is make remediation safe and practical. The real breakthrough isn't more prioritization, it's removing risk without breaking the business. Reclaim does exactly that, and that's why it matters.
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fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

This new hedge fund trying to deliver big returns without expensive PMs has lost money since it launched last summer

Taproot Management's innovative low-cost multistrategy model has underperformed since launch, losing approximately 1% in its first six months and continuing losses into 2026.
fromTelecompetitor
4 days ago

The latest ABS deal: Surf Internet gains $407M via asset-backed securitization

The transaction includes only fiber network assets and associated revenues. The ABS includes only the most mature portions of Surf's fiber footprint. ABS provides financing secured by only a portion of a company's total assets. Deals are typically secured with fiber assets and associated revenues. These are considered low-risk revenues, so lenders generally are willing to offer favorable terms for the borrower.
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fromArs Technica
4 days ago

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Senator Cruz's bill mandates NASA release commercial space station requirements within 60 days, a request for proposals within 90 days, and sign contracts with multiple providers within 180 days to accelerate private space station development.
fromFortune
4 days ago

Can Anthropic's CFO sell Wall Street on an AI firm Washington calls a 'risk'? | Fortune

Anthropic sought explicit contractual restrictions to prevent its AI from being used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon, in contrast, insisted it must be able to deploy contractor technology for any lawful purpose. Negotiations broke down, the Department of Defense moved to terminate the contract, and it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, effectively restricting many government agencies and defense contractors from working with the company.
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fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market | TechCrunch

Science Corporation raised $230 million for PRIMA, a rice-grain-sized brain-computer interface chip that restores vision to macular degeneration patients, with 80% of trial participants achieving meaningful visual improvement and reading ability.
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fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

Anthropic Doubles Revenue to Nearly $20B in a Few Months

Anthropic reached nearly $20 billion in annual run-rate revenue, more than doubling from $9 billion at year-end 2025, driven by strong adoption of Claude Code and AI models.
fromFortune
4 days ago

Anthropic's investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff-but some investors have opposite views | Fortune

When he was talking about the risks of AI, he contorted. His body twisted. He was really emotionally showing how scared he was. It made an impression on the investor, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of impact to their business, and said they believed large language models would never be successful if they weren't trustworthy.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Amazon and Nvidia Just Poured $110 Billion Into OpenAI - Here Are the 5 Stocks That Benefit Most

OpenAI recently closed the largest private funding round in history, raising $110 billion from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. Leading the way was Amazon with an investment of approximately $50 billion, of which $15 billion was committed to upfront, while another $35 billion was tied to various milestones. For their parts, NVIDIA and SoftBank each contributed $30 billion, pushing OpenAI's massive valuation to $730 billion pre-money and $840 billion including the new capital.
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fromTechRepublic
4 days ago

Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Plots Massive Data Centers Across US, Canada

We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necessary to support power generation and compute capacity at scale. Each Wonder Valley campus is expected to provide 7.5 gigawatts of power generation capacity, creating a combined initial power plan of 15 gigawatts.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Magnificent 7 Stock Report: Apple Leads, NVIDIA Fades, Microsoft Crashes

Apple outperformed other Magnificent 7 stocks in February amid market volatility, while NVIDIA delivered blockbuster earnings with 73% revenue growth but saw stock price stagnation despite extraordinary guidance.
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fromTechCrunch
4 days ago
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Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement | TechCrunch

fromFortune
5 days ago
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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today's five year olds won't ever need to get jobs thanks to AI | Fortune

fromTechCrunch
4 days ago
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Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement | TechCrunch

fromFortune
5 days ago
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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today's five year olds won't ever need to get jobs thanks to AI | Fortune

fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable | TechCrunch

Since expenses for external advisers are not reimbursed if a deal falls through, PE firms wait until they are certain of their interest before engaging costly specialists such as consultants from McKinsey, BCG, or Bain to perform extensive commercial research on the market and the target company.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $100B OpenAI Deal 'Probably Not in the Cards'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the company will invest $30 billion in OpenAI, not the previously discussed $100 billion, citing OpenAI's upcoming IPO as the deadline for private investment opportunities.
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes | TechCrunch

Zeno is one of those companies, and this week it announced a $25 million Series A to expand its app-controlled battery-swap network and produce more of its Emara motorcycles. About $20.5 million of the total was an equity fundraise, Zeno co-founder and CEO Michael Spencer told TechCrunch. It was led by Congruent Ventures with participation from Active Impact and Lowercarbon Ventures.
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fromFortune
4 days ago

Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla has 'no plans to leave California' amid billionaire tax uproar-but he has another idea to fix the wealth loophole | Fortune

California will lose its most important taxpayers and net off much worse. Even people who don't expect this initiative to pass are still planning to leave because there will be another one. You're permanently reducing the tax base on an ongoing basis to get a one shot. That's what a junkie does, a one-time shot.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

BlackBerry Is Profitable Again and Nobody on Wall Street Seems to Care

BlackBerry trades at depressed valuations despite three consecutive quarters of GAAP profitability and record QNX automotive division performance, with investors viewing guidance improvements as incremental rather than transformational.
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fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months | TechCrunch

Nominal raised $80M Series B extension at $1B valuation led by Founders Fund, following $75M Series B from Sequoia, to expand hardware testing software beyond defense into industrial sectors.
fromReadWrite
4 days ago

Betr and Polymarket partnership adds prediction markets to app

Betr, based in Miami, says the multi-year agreement will bring Polymarket's prediction market infrastructure into the app many customers already use for sports gaming. Once it launches, people will be able to speculate on the likelihood of future events spanning sports, politics, entertainment, and cultural topics without leaving the platform.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Gold Is Hitting New Highs: One 2x ETF Is Doubling Every Move

Gold pays no interest or dividends, making its appeal highly sensitive to what investors can earn elsewhere. When real yields fall, gold becomes comparatively more attractive. The 10-year Treasury yield has dropped from 4.29% in early February to 4.06% as of early March, coinciding directly with gold pushing to new highs.
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fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices | TechCrunch

VCs use multi-tiered valuations within single funding rounds to create unicorn status while investing portions at lower prices, manufacturing market dominance perception.
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fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation | TechCrunch

Decagon completes employee tender offer at $4.5 billion valuation, enabling 300+ employees to convert vested equity into cash as AI talent competition intensifies.
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fromFuturism
5 days ago

Jeff Bezos Gathering Money to Buy Companies Gutted by AI

Jeff Bezos's Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions to acquire companies disrupted by AI, positioning itself as a manufacturing transformation vehicle for industrial consolidation.
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fromFortune
5 days ago

Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say | Fortune

Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm is raising its fifth fund targeting $2 billion, planning to close by mid-2026, amid a shorter fundraising cycle despite current market volatility.
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fromFortune
5 days ago

Cyclops raises $8 million to build stablecoin infrastructure for payments companies | Fortune

Large multinational businesses are adopting stablecoins for instant, around-the-clock payment settlement, and Cyclops raised $8 million to provide infrastructure enabling this transition.
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fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch

Eight Sleep raised $50 million at $1.5 billion valuation and plans to develop FDA-approved sleep apnea detection products and AI agents that optimize sleep through temperature, elevation, and firmness adjustments.
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fromSecurityWeek
5 days ago

AI Security Firm JetStream Launches With $34 Million in Seed Funding

JetStream Security raised $34 million to provide AI governance through AI Blueprints, enabling enterprises to securely deploy and monitor generative and agentic AI tools in production environments.
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fromAlleywatch
5 days ago

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/4/2026

NYC startups raised significant funding on March 4, 2026, including Eight Sleep's $50M Series led by Tether Ventures, Cryptio's $44.5M back-office platform round, and Chptr's $3.25M memorial storytelling platform funding.
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fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets. | TechCrunch

PopSockets proved consumer hardware companies can succeed through bootstrapping with minimal capital rather than pursuing venture capital funding.
from24/7 Wall St.
5 days ago

Canaccord Slashes AeroVironment Target From $400 to $330 but Holds Buy - Here's What That Contradiction Means

The Pentagon's decision to open the SCAR phased array flat panel antenna program to competition from additional vendors is the core issue. SCAR is a BlueHalo product line sitting inside the Space, Cyber and Directed Energy (SCDE) segment, which generated $170.94 million in Q2 FY26 revenue. AeroVironment paid $4.1 billion to acquire BlueHalo, and SCAR was one of the flagship programs justifying that price tag.
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fromFortune
5 days ago

Famed investor Vinod Khosla predicts free AI labor will lead to an era of few jobs and great abundance | Fortune

By 2040, AI and robotics will make goods and services abundant and affordable, with $10,000-$30,000 purchasing power exceeding today's $100,000 income despite widespread job displacement.
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from24/7 Wall St.
5 days ago

Why Big Tech's Equity Investments May Be Fueling Their Own AI Bubble

AST SpaceMobile and Telus announced a landmark agreement to provide space-based cellular broadband to Canada's remote regions, with Telus becoming an equity shareholder, exemplifying a broader 2024-2025 corporate equity investment boom extending beyond AI.
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fromFuturism
5 days ago

Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He "Smells" a Similar Crash Coming

AI companies plan to spend $650 billion in 2026 on data centers, raising concerns about overinvestment, hidden leverage, and potential financial crisis similar to 2008.
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fromThe Motley Fool
5 days ago

What Are 3 Great Tech Stocks to Buy Right Now? | The Motley Fool

Technology stock uncertainty creates investment opportunities as valuations become attractive and market paths clarify, with The Trade Desk and Sea Limited presenting potential outperformance prospects despite recent declines.
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Stanley Druckenmiller Backed Up the Truck on This Wildly-Popular ETF

Stanley Druckenmiller made a significant 7% portfolio allocation to the State Street Financial Sector SPDR ETF, signaling a major shift toward financials as market focus moves away from AI and tech.
fromBusiness Insider
5 days ago

The early-stage startups in 2026 most likely to become tech's next unicorns, according to a proprietary AI model known as 'Moneyball for VC'

TRAC has found that a company's founders do not predict success. Instead, its algorithm prioritizes 286 top investors. These extraordinary investors make a profit on two-thirds of their positions and one in five of their investments returns over 10X. Less than 2% of all startups attract these elite investors, so that eliminates over 98% of all startups from TRAC's formula.
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from24/7 Wall St.
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Forget AI. This Biotech Stock's Taking Off Right Now

AI stocks face correction risk due to rising capital expenditures without proportional profits, making biotech an undervalued alternative for AI-driven growth exposure.
from24/7 Wall St.
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SHLD Is Up 70.68% as AI and Drones Reshape Defense Investing

Global X Defense Tech ETF (NYSEARCA:SHLD) is up 82% over the past year, and the conversation around defense tech investing is heating up for reasons that go well beyond quarterly earnings cycles. This ETF undoubtedly sits at the intersection of two powerful forces reshaping global military spending: Europe's historic rearmament push and an ongoing conflict involving Iran that has accelerated demand for autonomous and AI-driven weapons systems.
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from24/7 Wall St.
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Iridium, AST SpaceMobile, and Redwire: The Biggest Space Stock Movers in February

The month told two very different stories depending on which side of that line your portfolio sat. On one side: defense giants riding a wave of geopolitical demand, record backlogs, and earnings beats. On the other: pure-play space names getting punished by dilution fears, execution questions, and a broader rotation away from high-risk growth.
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fromBusiness Insider
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How one firm is helping emerging hedge funds launch with hundreds of millions and virtually no staff

Lean hedge fund launches are accelerating through SMA capital, advanced technology, and outsourced operations, enabling portfolio managers to start with minimal staff.
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