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Messy War, Happy Stock Markets

On the surface, the recent rally doesn’t seem to make sense: Oil prices are high and a peace deal with Iran remains elus...

The 12-month window

In a recent episode of “No Priors” — the excellent podcast co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin successfully re-used one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time ever on...

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures

Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alex Karp’s...

Cracks are starting to form on fusion energy’s funding boom

It happens in every emerging industry: founders and investors push toward a common goal, until the money starts to roll ...

Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever

Blue Origin has successfully reused one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time ever, marking a major milestone for ...

Real estate investors are buying up long-term care facilities. Residents can suffer

Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. S...

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The 11 Best Fans to Buy Before It Gets Hot Again (2026)

The Dreo TurboPoly 707S, for instance, has radar that can track where someone is in the room and redirect airflow as the...

In Qatar, Trapped Between the U.S. and Iran, War Forced a Reckoning

The gas-rich Gulf nation is in a state of “strategic shock” after the war dealt a serious blow to its economy, sending r...

School choice is booming in Iowa. Are students better off?

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins an...

Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston

The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now.Save up to $680 on your Disrupt 2...

AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO

Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware for training and infe...

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why

Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. According to a new analysis from market intelli...

Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

Jack Zhang was 34 years old, three and a half years into running a startup, and sitting across from one of the most powe...

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evoluti...

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science ...

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Pr...

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fr...

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder

The global Tinder expansion is one of the biggest tests yet for World, and the company’s bet that everyday consumers wil...