CB Insights - 5 AI Agent Predictions for 2026
As agents delete work and win labor budgets, the bottleneck shifts from building them to deployin...
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China’s Gen Z Day Traders Trust in Chatbots and Move Markets
This cohort has become an increasingly important driver of investment growth in the world’s seco...
DTC Brand Quince Reaches $10 Billion Valuation As Dupe Culture Driv...
The direct-to-consumer label raised a $500 million Series E as it seeks to continue its rapid exp...
Meta Acquired Moltbook, The AI Agent Social Network That Went Viral...
Meta acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like “social network” where AI agents using OpenClaw can com...
Private Markets Enter a New Era of Consolidation as Asset Managers...
Private markets are undergoing a significant wave of consolidation as the world’s largest altern...
Legora Reaches $5.55 Billion Valuation As AI Legal Tech Boom Continues
Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Serie...
(Infographic) 5 Ways Women Are Reshaping Investing
Women are transforming the investment landscape. Entrepreneurial momentum, rising earnings, and e...
Cognito Therapeutics Announces Oversubscribed $105M Series C Financ...
Financing positions company for pivotal study data readout, FDA submission, and 2027 commercializ...
Iran War : Fuel Prices Up, Stocks and Precious Metals Down
Around 10 days after the beginning of the joint U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, oil and other fuel...
Higher Gas Prices Hit Americans Already Hurting From Inflation
The Iran war’s effect on the pumps could ripple through midterm elections.Oil markets sounded al...
AI Startup Simile Offers ‘Agentic Twins’ Modeled On Real People T...
AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling...
(M&A) Accenture To Acquire Ookla And Downdetector For $1.2B
Ziff Davis has agreed to sell its Connectivity division, which houses Ookla’s Speedtest app and...
Ex-OpenAI Research Chief Seeks $70M For AI Factory Automation Startup
Bob McGrew, the former chief research officer at OpenAI (OPENAI), is raising about $70 million fo...
Iran War Brings Strait Of Hormuz Traffic To A Halt
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has reached a near standstill amid the war between the US, I...
(PDF) Deloitte - 2026 Commercial Real Estate Outlook
The opportunities are real—if you know where to look.Macroeconomic volatility and policy uncerta...
(M&A) Luckin Coffee Backer Centurium Is Said to Be in Advanced Talk...
Centurium Capital Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Nestle SA’s Blue Bottle Coffee, accor...
Startup Making AI Chips More Power-Efficient Raises $500M
Ayar Labs, which is replacing the copper wiring in semiconductors with fiber optics, is valued at...
Jeff Bezos’ $30B AI Lab Eyes Tens Of Billions More To Remake Manuf...
Jeff Bezos’ AI lab is preparing to raise tens of billions of dollars to buy industrial companies...
Kana Emerges From Stealth With $15M To Build Flexible AI Agents For...
Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a v...
(M&A) Ebay Buys Depop For $1.2bn In Effort To Lure Younger Shoppers
Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale app from Etsy as eBay attempts to fend o...
AI Observability Startup Braintrust Raises $80M At An $800M Valuation
Braintrust lands $80M funding round to become the observability layer for AI.Artificial intellige...
An Investor’s Guide to Gen Alpha
Following what’s in style for kids these days can be a boon for your wallet.Consumer companies a...
Former Sequoia Partner’s New Startup Uses AI To Negotiate Your Cal...
Kais Khimji has spent most of his professional career as a venture investor, including six years...
The World’s Data Centers by Country (2026)
Data centers power everything from streaming and cloud storage to the AI systems reshaping indust...
World Uncertainty Index Hits Record High, Surpassing 2008 Level
Global uncertainty has reached unprecedented levels, according to the latest reading of the World...
AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new...
(PDF) Mckinsey - 2026 M&A Trends : Navigating A Rapidly Rebounding...
The 2026 M&A landscape reflects a sharp and confident rebound following a brief slowdown in e...
AI Defense Startup Breaker Raises $6 Million in Seed Funding
Breaker’s valuation has increased about fourfold since a pre-seed raise almost a year ago.An art...
How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End
Demand for computer memory is surging because of artificial intelligence, especially the type of...
Complyance Raises $20M To Help Companies Manage Risk And Compliance
Richa Kaul says she’s a bit of a data privacy nut. At parties, for example, she’s the one helpi...
Fundamental Raises $255M Series A With a New Take on Big Data Analysis
An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to...
Why AI Chatbots Can’t Be Trusted for Financial Advice: They’re So...
Today’s large language models like ChatGPT don’t have the training to act in users’ best inter...
