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Lily Mae Lazarus

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Exclusive: Blossom Health raises $20 million to bring an AI ‘copilot’ to psychiatry

The startup says its “AI-native” model can deliver faster access to care while keeping clinicians in control of treatment decisions.

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Exclusive: Cambridge Mobile Telematics secures $350 million from TPG, Allianz to make driving safer

The investment highlights how insurers are using real-time driving data and AI to price risk, prevent accidents, and improve road safety at scale.

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Startup Antithesis turns years of real-world chaos into hours of simulated mayhem—and key trading firms and crypto networks are paying close attention

Will Wilson’s AI software startup just raised $105 million from investors including Jane Street and Patrick Collison.

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Exclusive: Posh lands $37M Series B to crack the ‘what are we doing tonight?’ problem

The startup founded by two NYU students wants to turn your group chat into an actual plan—and has already processed $350 million in ticket sales.

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Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz backs Deeptune’s $43M Series A to build ‘training gyms’ for AI agents

The company is betting that simulated environments—not more web data—will be key to training the next generation of AI agents.

19.03.2026 2

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AI is reviving tech sectors that VCs had all but forgotten

PitchBook data shows early-stage money surging back into healthtech, cybersecurity, biotech, and SaaS.

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OpenAI’s original VC bet: How Vinod Khosla stepped in after Elon Musk balked

Khosla says he backed OpenAI with a $50 million check after Elon Musk hesitated—partly to counter China’s AI rise.

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a16z exec Steven Sinofsky had murky dealings with Jeffrey Epstein in his previous life working for Microsoft

New DOJ documents show the former Microsoft Windows chief brought Epstein into negotiations over his 2012 exit package.

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Exclusive: AI startup Axiamatic raises $54 million to help companies push their digital transformations forward

The Greylock and Bessemer-backed startup has just emerged from stealth under the leadership of three-time founder Rajiv Gupta and Kaushik Narayan.

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February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo

Startup funding surged to a historic $189 billion in February, driven almost entirely by three AI mega-rounds that captured 83% of the total.

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Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year—but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data

Two-thirds of every U.S. venture dollar going to female-founded startups last year flowed into AI, Pitchbook finds

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The French AI startup gunning for Workday, Oracle, and SAP

Fortune has exclusively learned that Eléonore Crespo’s Pigment is approaching $100 million in ARR, having doubled ARR for a third consecutive year.

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Emil Michael, the Silicon Valley exec turned Trump official leading the war against Anthropic, has deep ties to the tech world

Michael, the Undersecretary of War, cut his teeth at Uber and has vowed not to bend to 'woke' AI.

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Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible

The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand—and shape—how ChatGPT and other AI systems...

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Exclusive: Bain and Greylock bet $42 million that AI agents can finally fix cybersecurity’s messiest bottleneck

Cogent Security boasts an all-star AI team—and is promising to close the gap between finding software flaws and actually fixing them.

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The AI startup that has quietly become one of Europe’s most valuable companies

An image generation unicorn in Germany called Black Forest Labs is attracting investments from Nvidia, a16z and Meta.

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Exclusive: Marc Lore and Melissa Bridgeford’s Wizard emerges from stealth

Wizard, an AI-native shopping agent cofounded by Marc Lore and CEO Melissa Bridgeford, is coming out of a nearly 5-year private beta.

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German prosecutors’ raid on Deutsche Bank hurts the lender’s attempts to leave its long history of compliance failures in the past

Investigators combed through the bank’s Frankfurt and Berlin headquarters just before it reported record annual profits.

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New filings exposing Elon Musk’s financials for X in the U.K. show revenue plummeted 58% in 2024

Advertisers have been fleeing the platform since Musk acquired what was then Twitter in 2022.

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‘How stupid were we’ to give Greenland back: Trump gives history lesson about why the U.S. needs to buy back the ‘big beautiful piece of ice’

President Donald Trump insisted any bid to bring the “big beautiful piece of ice” under American control would stop short of military force.

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Trump’s Greenland takeover would require ‘billions upon billions’ spent over decades to acquire a mineral industry that doesn’t yet exist, experts say

As the White House confirms military force is "always an option," experts say the costs—financial, strategic, and geopolitical—will be staggering.

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How Salient, an AI loan processing startup valued at $500 million, grew ARR to $25 million in two years

Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

18.12.2025 7

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Former Meta integrity chief says new report reveals ‘disappointing’ ad fraud epidemic at the social media giant

An internal audit warned of systemic corruption, yet Meta expanded Chinese ad partnerships that generated billions—much of it tied to fraud.

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Alex Karp credits his dyslexia for Palantir’s $415 billion success: ‘There is no playbook a dyslexic can master … therefore we learn to think freely’

The Palantir chief says his inability to follow traditional learning patterns forced him to innovate, fueling both his unconventional politics and the...

04.12.2025 7

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Inside the economics of Candace Owens’ media empire and the Macron lawsuit threatening to unravel it

The French president and first lady have tapped the firm behind Dominion’s $787.5 million win against Fox News to pursue Owens personally and...

02.12.2025 10

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A $400 million lawsuit against UBS is designed to punish banks who throw employees to the wolves

Wrongly accused bankers are fighting back against the institutions that betrayed them, including Tom Hayes.

07.11.2025 5

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AIG to partner with specialty insurer Convex and asset manager Onex in $5 billion deal

The dual investment comes on the heels of AIG’s separate $2 billion acquisition deal with reinsurance company Everest Group.

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Real estate CEO says the luxury industry is all about one thing: a ‘return on ego’

DarGlobal CEO Ziad El Chaar sees co-branded real estate—what he calls the “limited edition of real estate”—as both a cultural anchor and a...

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Gen Zers are using AI to skip meetings, get promoted faster and win bigger salary hikes. But they don’t feel great about it

While AI note-taking saves workers hours each week and drives faster promotions, the same young employees worry that their dependence on the tech...

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AIG to acquire the majority of renewal rights to Everest Group’s global retail insurance portfolio in $2 billion deal

The acquisition gives AIG access to future business without inheriting responsibility for claims and obligations predating the deal.

27.10.2025 7

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Wall Street might be panicking over private credit, but insiders can’t see what all the fuss is about

Some say this is more about mudslinging between private credit’s competitors and a misunderstanding about direct lending.

20.10.2025 10

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Why the Supreme Court may choose to uphold Trump’s tariffs: ‘It would be incredibly disruptive to unscramble those eggs’

Reversing Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs stands to upend billions in trade flows and test the limits of presidential power.

15.10.2025 7

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Deutsche Bank and Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost

Given its long history of servicing high-risk clients, it is perhaps unsurprising that Deutsche Bank stepped in when Epstein was ditched by JPMorgan.

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Behind the fall and resurrection of Jimmy Kimmel is a $6.2 billion merger and the pro-Republican companies that serve rural, conservative audiences

FCC pressure and multibillion-dollar mergers aren’t even the full story. The future of linear TV is up for grabs.

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Charlie Kirk left behind a vast, lucrative network of 500,000 donors who gave Turning Point $85 million in revenue

He wanted to create an institution as renowned as The New York Times or Harvard—but with its founder gone, the future is murky.

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It’s not just Sam Altman warning about an AI bubble. Now Mark Zuckerberg says a ‘collapse’ is ‘definitely a possibility’

“Based on past infrastructure build-outs and how they led to bubbles,” the Meta CEO said on the Access podcast, it’s quite possible “that...

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Longtime Cracker Barrel foe urges shareholders to vote against ‘worse than mediocre’ CEO after dismal earnings

"The Company has become a laughingstock," wrote the CEO of Steak 'n Shake and Biglari Holdings, which also controls Maxim magazine.

19.09.2025 8

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For one man, the war against Cracker Barrel never really ended

Sardar Biglari’s 14-year beef with Cracker Barrel has earned him $1 billion—yet the company continues to resist him

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Inside the debt-heavy sand trap of Trump’s U.K. golf course finances

Donald Trump’s resorts in Scotland embody his trademark mix of real estate ambition and presidential showmanship—where politics meets profit, and...

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RedBird Capital’s $2 billion power play: Meet Gerry Cardinale, the private equity kingmaker behind the Paramount–Skydance deal

Private equity firms have been making moves in Hollywood for some time, but Redbird's stake in the Paramount deal is by far the largest to date.

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When Rupert Murdoch dies, it could plunge the Fox and News Corp empire into civil war 

The fate of Rupert Murdoch’s businesses lies with his four feuding children and a contested family trust.

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Figma’s 33-year-old cofounder is a former LinkedIn intern who launched the $68 billion Wall Street darling with $100k from Peter Thiel

Dylan Field dropped out of Brown University to build his multibillion-dollar tech brand.

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​​Inside the $99 million luxury wine scam that fooled over 100 global investors

James Wellesley and Stephen Burton established and ran Bordeaux Cellars, the company at the center of a sprawling federal prosecution.

25.07.2025 10

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World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab and his wife cashed in on Davos with over $1 million in questionable travel expenses, investigation finds

Schwab started the WEF, which transformed Davos into a hub of networking and diplomacy, in 1971.

23.07.2025 6

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Astronomer’s new interim CEO breaks his silence after the tech company’s viral scandal shook the internet

"The spotlight has been unusual and surreal for our team and, while I would never have wished for it to happen like this, Astronomer is now a...

21.07.2025 10

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The CEO caught hugging his HR chief at a Coldplay show has resigned after being placed on leave amid an investigation

“The Board will begin a search for our next Chief Executive as Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to serve as interim CEO.”

19.07.2025 10

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The CEO caught hugging his HR chief at a Coldplay show is being investigated by his tech unicorn

“Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” Astronomer announced.

19.07.2025 10

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If Amazon Ring staff want a promotion, they must now prove they’ve used AI

The new policy expands expectations of AI use in Amazon’s smart home division.

18.07.2025 10

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A CEO was caught hugging his chief people officer during a Coldplay concert—and people are furious

Andy Byron, CEO of unicorn startup Astronomer, is at the center of controversy after a video of him and his chief people officer, Kristin Cabot,...

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Trump’s push to cut another $9 billion in spending could spare $400 million for HIV/AIDS relief

The move to save PEPFAR funding may prove useful in rallying GOP support from powerful lawmakers like Senate Appropriations chair Susan Collins, an...

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