Vanguard, the world's second-largest asset manager, has acquired wealth-management platform Altruist for approximately $4 billion, according to Reuters, sending shares of Charles Schwab and Robinhood …
Vanguard announced a $4 billion deal to acquire Altruist, an AI-forward wealth management platform and custodian for independent financial advisors, aiming to bolster its advisory offerings and compet…
Vanguard announced on August 26 the $4 billion acquisition of Altruist, an AI-enhanced wealth technology and custody platform founded in 2018 by CEO Jason Wenk, marking its biggest technology play. Th…
LLM Pulse, an independent AI research firm, launched the first public library tracking ads displayed in ChatGPT, cataloging 56,396 unique ads by advertiser, country, message, and date as of August 21,…
Robinhood Markets Inc. launched Agentic Trading, allowing eligible US users to connect third-party AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok to dedicated brokerage accounts for automated trading acr…
Jane Street, the New York-based quantitative trading firm, lost approximately $15 billion in July 2026, its first monthly loss in nearly a decade, driven by volatility in AI-related stocks and a conce…
Nuro, a Mountain View-based autonomous driving company founded in 2016, is hiring a Software Engineer for Applied AI Infrastructure to build a platform that enables AI agents to operate autonomously w…
Nuro, a Mountain View-based autonomous driving company, is hiring a Software Engineer for its ML Inference Platform with a base pay range of $160,360 to $240,540. The role involves designing ML pipeli…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, a startup that hardwires AI models onto custom chips, with financial terms undisclosed. Taalas, founded i…
The first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF is set to close after experiencing $4.5 billion in outflows this year, as investors shift toward AI-related assets, according to CoinDesk. The ETF, launched in January …
Nuro, a Mountain View-based autonomous driving company founded in 2016, is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for AI Agent Infrastructure to build a platform that enables AI agents to operate aut…
Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, led by Fidelity, to sell open, programmable chips that wire GPUs together in AI data centers. The comp…
Stock buybacks are near historic highs, but their benefit to investors is fading as the S&P 500's total share count rises again, according to Fidelity, which estimates buybacks have declined to roughl…
Gemini, the crypto exchange co-founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will launch commission-free stock trading for eligible US users on July 7, 2026, adding thousands of US-listed equities to its p…
Anthropic said an unreleased version of its most powerful model, Claude Mythos Preview, found two previously unknown attacks on crypto algorithms, including one against HAWK, a digital signature syste…
Founders with scattered equity, crypto, and cash can now build a personal finance dashboard using AI tools like Kubera, Monarch Money, and Copilot Money, compressing the discovery process that typical…
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle have issued approximately $244 billion in bonds globally so far in 2026, more than double the $108 billion raised in all of 2025, to fund AI infrastructur…
Alphabet announced an $85 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, while Big Tech companies have already sold $159 billion in bonds in 2026, surpassing their total from 2020-2024. Fidelity advi…
Arca, an AI-powered wealth management platform founded by former Plaid product leader Rron Rexha, raised $64 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Venrock and General Catalyst. The firm…
The AI industry's rapid expansion is hitting a physical bottleneck with copper wiring, as heat and signal degradation limit the performance of large-scale GPU clusters. Lightmatter, a startup backed b…