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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is developing a prediction market app called "Arena" that uses a points system instead of real money, according to employees. The app aims to capitalize on the popularity of platforms like Polyma…
Veteran investor Jeremy Grantham warns that the US stock market is the most expensive in history, driven by an AI boom that could lead to a historic decline. He cites a 235% market-cap-to-GDP ratio and a 40x CAPE ratio, …
A South African AI startup founder on Hacker News raises concerns that frontier model access is being restricted based on citizenship, not company incorporation, citing Anthropic's nationality-based access controls and p…
ServiceNow and Salesforce stocks surged on June 1 as investors reassessed the threat from OpenAI, with ServiceNow shares jumping up to 14%. The rally followed a period of steep declines driven by fears that AI agents wou…
Hightouch is hiring across product and go-to-market functions, including AI-focused roles, after raising $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.75 billion valuation. The company is pivoting from a customer data platfor…
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its first investment-grade bond offering on June 23, drawing massive demand of up to $90 billion but pricing at wider spreads than typical BBB-rated peers, signaling bond investor caution abo…
JackHamr is offering up to $5,000 in compute and LLM credits to the first 30 qualified startups, entrepreneurs, and builders. The grant provides infrastructure and tokens at cost with no equity or exclusivity requirement…
Alphabet lost approximately $270 billion in market value in a single trading session in June 2026, driven by concerns over competitive positioning against OpenAI and Anthropic, triggering a global sell-off in tech stocks…
OpenAI is reportedly considering delaying its initial public offering until 2027 to pursue a $1 trillion valuation and avoid current tech stock volatility, according to the New York Times. The company's recent $122 billi…
Rezolve AI PLC proposed a $300 million share buyback program, asking shareholders to approve a capital reduction of £480 million to create distributable reserves. The repurchases would be conducted through BTIG and funde…
Kristina Subbotina, founder and CEO of Lexsy, scaled her startup-focused AI legal service to over $1.3 million in revenue after building a social-media audience with legal horror story videos that garnered 5 million mont…
Kristina Subbotina left Big Law to become an investor but instead founded Lexsy, an AI-powered law firm for startups, which hit six figures in revenue within its first six months. Subbotina built the firm by leveraging s…
Apple executive Paul Meade, who oversaw development of the Vision Pro and upcoming smart glasses, is leaving for OpenAI to work on AI devices. His departure follows executive reshuffling at Apple as John Ternus prepares …
OpenAI has hired Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and smart glasses efforts, to work on AI-powered devices. Meade's departure follows a reshuffling under Apple's new CEO John Ternus a…
Apple's Vision Pro hardware chief Paul Meade is leaving the company to join OpenAI's hardware unit, where he will work on a family of AI-powered devices, according to Bloomberg. The move signals continued talent flow fro…
Micah Lasher won a Manhattan congressional primary despite $27 million in spending by AI-backed super PACs, defeating Alex Bores who was supported by Anthropic's Public First Action and opposed by OpenAI-linked Leading t…
Paul Meade, former Vice President of Hardware Engineering for Apple's Vision Products Group, has joined OpenAI's hardware unit to develop AI-powered consumer devices. Meade, who led the development of Apple Vision Pro, w…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund to invest in crypto, AI, robotics, and energy, with half already deployed. The fund, which managed $1.28 billion in assets as of December 2025, counts fund-of-funds, f…
Oracle's stock fell after a report indicated that its key partner, OpenAI, could delay its initial public offering, raising concerns about the partnership's impact on Oracle's growth.
Amazon Web Services will raise prices on its Nvidia-powered GPU cloud instances by 20% starting July 1, marking the second price hike in 2026 as demand for AI training infrastructure outpaces supply. The flagship P6-B300…