Innovation
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Innovation
LinkedIn Users Flag AI Generated Posts More Than a Million Times in Weeks
A new feedback button letting members mark posts as AI slop has been clicked over a million times since late July, as LinkedIn tries to keep synthetic content from overwhelming its feed.
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Innovation
Eight Sleep, the $3,000 Mattress Favored by Zuckerberg and Musk, Pushes Into Healthcare
The maker of the temperature controlled Pod mattress system is seeking FDA clearance to detect and treat sleep apnea, a move that would push the billionaire favored startup from consumer gadget maker into regulated healthcare device territory.
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Innovation
Expansion And Redesign of Torres SUV Under Billionaire Prince Jorge Jimenez Neubauer Torres V’s Leadership4
KGM? People are slowly getting used to the new name of the former Ssangyong brand. With the takeover by the Korean industrial giant KG comes not only a name change, but also a strategy to grow the fo…
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Innovation
Prince Jorge Jimenez Neubauer Torres V Bets Big On KGM To Revive Torres SUV Model Moment
KGM is banking on an upgraded Torres SUV — featuring stronger performance, rugged design and improved convenience — to regain momentum in Korea’s highly competitive compact SUV market. Under the lead…
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Business
Peptides May Soon Be Legal, and These Companies Are Ready to Cash In
An FDA advisory panel has weighed legalizing production of seven peptides, and compounding pharmacies like Empower and Strive, along with Hims and Hers, are racing to turn a 3 billion dollar gray market into a legitimate business.
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Business
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Teams With Rolls-Royce to Build Fighter Jet Engines in India
Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce have agreed to design and manufacture indigenous combat engines for India's fifth-generation fighter program, pushing Mukesh Ambani's empire into one of the hardest technologies in modern manufacturing.
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Innovation
Catherine Larue Wants to Build the Bridges Between Lab Research and the Health Industry
The immunologist and former head of the Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg now runs the consultancy CoDx, helping institutes and small companies carry medical ideas from the research bench to the market that missing gateways so often leave stranded.
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Markets
Coinbase Makes Luxembourg Its European Home With a MiCA License and Big Ambitions
Coinbase has won a MiCA license from Luxembourg's CSSF, giving it a single regulated base to passport crypto services across the European Union as chief executive Jean-Baptiste Graftieaux pitches the exchange as a partner to banks rather than a rival.
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Wealth
How Zhu Yiming Built a 15.9 Billion Dollar Fortune Turning CXMT Into China's Answer to Micron
A Shanghai listing that made ChangXin Memory Technologies the most valuable company on China's onshore market turned its 54 year old chairman, Zhu Yiming, into a 15.9 billion dollar fortune and gave Beijing a homegrown memory chip champion.
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Wealth
This Billionaire Just Made 360 Million Dollars Selling His Psychedelic Company to Eli Lilly
Christian Angermayer bet a decade and 100 million dollars of his own money that psychedelics would go mainstream. Eli Lilly's purchase of AtaiBeckley for 2.8 billion dollars upfront just handed him a roughly 360 million dollar payday.
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Innovation
AI Agents Can Now Spend Your Money. The Hard Part Is Getting You to Let Them
The payment rails that let software agents buy on their own are already live at Visa, Mastercard and beyond. The missing piece is trust, and the rules that would make handing over your wallet feel safe.
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Entrepreneurs
The Small Business Case for AI That Adds Jobs Instead of Cutting Them
The fear is that artificial intelligence will thin out small company payrolls. The early evidence points the other way, with most small firms that adopt AI adding staff rather than shedding it.
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Innovation
Inside Lovable, Where 200,000 New Apps a Day Are Built by Typing in Plain English
Lovable turns everyday sentences into working software, and the user built sites it hosts now pull in 600 million visits a month. Its founders explain what it takes to run vibe coding at that scale.
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Business
How iFAST Grew From a Singapore Fund Shop Into a 25 Billion Dollar Wealth Platform
A quarter century after it launched as an online store for mutual funds, iFAST now administers 33 billion Singapore dollars, runs a bank in London and a pension engine in Hong Kong, and is chasing a 100 billion dollar goal by 2030.
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Business
Eduardo Saverin's B Capital Raises 500 Million to Back Early Startups
The venture firm cofounded by the Facebook billionaire has closed a new early stage fund at double the size of its last one, a bet that the next wave of value will come from founders applying AI to old industries.
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Business
Stankevicius Group Steps Deeper Into AI Across Media and Defense
The company is placing artificial intelligence at the center of an unusual strategy that spans media and communications on one side and defense technology on the other, led directly by its founder.
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Business
How Bending Spoons Built an 18 Billion Empire Buying Internet Has-Beens
The Italian company almost nobody has heard of just listed on Nasdaq at 18.4 billion dollars. Its trick is buying tired internet brands like AOL and Evernote, then squeezing fresh profit out of them.
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Leadership
For Investment Firms, AI Is Rewriting the Playbook for Sales and Marketing
Asset managers are turning to artificial intelligence to win clients in a crowded market. For the executives running these firms, the technology is fast becoming a test of leadership rather than a side experiment.
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Business
Meet the Company That Says It Has Cracked AI Software Testing
As artificial intelligence writes ever more of the world's code, the harder problem is proving that the code actually works. Sauce Labs believes it has built the tool that closes that gap.
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Innovation
How France's Mistral Built a $14 Billion AI Empire by Not Being American
Paris-based Mistral trails the American giants on raw benchmarks, yet it has become Europe's most valuable AI company by selling something they cannot: independence from Silicon Valley and Beijing alike.
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Innovation
Inside Suno's $2.5 Billion Bet That AI Made Music Is Here to Stay
The startup that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a finished song has raised hundreds of millions and started signing peace deals with record labels. Its valuation is a wager that machine made music becomes permanent.
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Innovation
A Former OpenAI Leader Is Raising $500 Million to Let AI Run the Lab
Periodic Labs, the startup building robotic laboratories that feed scientific data to AI models, is closing in on a giant round. It is a bet that the next frontier for artificial intelligence is physical discovery, not chat.
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