Kalshi's CEO said their rivalry with Polymarket encourages them to push products and marketing harder. Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Prediction market Kalshi is putting a ...
ShopMy founders Harry Rein, Tiffany Lopinsky, and Chris Tinsley. Courtesy of ShopMy AI and social commerce are fueling millions of dollars in investments in the creator economy. Startups from generati...
Dina Powell McCormick is Meta's new president and vice chairman. Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit Meta named Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman. Powell McCormick s...
Google turned up the heat in the AI shopping wars this weekend, announcing plans to turn Gemini into a merchant and launching an open-source standard built together with major retailers including Shop...
The global crypto market cap pushed another 2% to $3.22T as majors continue to grind up; BTC +1% at $93,780; ETH +2% at $3,240, SOL +3% at $139; XRP led up 12% to $2.37 RENDER (+18%), SUI (+18%) and L...
Ethan Choi. Khosla Ventures We asked Khosla Ventures partner Ethan Choi how he sees AI reshaping daily life and work in 2026. Robotics will reach a major breakthrough in capability and have its own &#...
Parking enforcement in action IMAGO/Joa Souza via Reuters Connect A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here . A Te...
Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI 's chatbots, according to new court filings....
Paste in my prompt to Claude Code with an embedded API key for accessing my public readonly SQL+vector database, and you have a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and d...
OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber/Pool OpenAI lost more than half a dozen researchers...
Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP Former SpaceX employees have launched startups with over $3 billion in venture funding. The SpaceX Mafia is backed by top venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and ...
James Creech is the founder of Quartermast Advisors, an M&A advisory firm. Madison Ellis Creator economy M&A deals were up over 17% year-over-year in 2025. Quartermast Advisors tracked last year's M&A...
Matt Blumberg built an AI agent that acts as a fantasy board of directors Markup AI Matt Blumberg, a serial tech CEO, created an AI agent that acts as a dream board of directors. The board is like a f...
Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
Scribe cofounder and CEO Jennifer Smith. Scribe AI startup Scribe raised $75 million and achieved unicorn status. Scribe helps businesses standardize workflows and implement AI. Here's the pitch deck ...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Branda Statman has had some "scary times" on LinkedIn . Not scary in terms of worrying about her safety — scary in terms of embarrassment. Statman, a brand mana...
In early December, Joshua Aaron, the developer behind the ICEBlock app - designed to let people alert others about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - filed a federal la...
Lou Gerstner, the former CEO of IBM, has died at 83. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Lou Gerstner, who led IBM's turnaround in the 1990s, has died, the company told staff. He kept IBM intact and ...
The 83rd Golden Globe Awards air on Sunday. Timothée Chalamet, Rose Byrne, and Michael B. Jordan are nominated for acting awards. Taylor Hill/Dia Dipasupil/Daniele Venturelli Polymarket, the predictio...
Kim Farrell, global head of creators at TikTok. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TikTok Kim Farrell, TikTok's global head of creators, is leaving her role. The move comes as TikTok announced a reorg of it...