Donald Trump is the biggest loser we’ve seen in a long time for scrapping climate action and ceding the clean energy race to China. By walking away from the battlefield and blackballing an entire sector of the economy, he completely missed the marketplace for goods that could be produced in the United States.
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Nine early-stage South Korean startups pitched at DETO 2026 in Seoul to earn a spot in TechCrunch Disrupt 2027's Startup Battlefield 200 competition. Voinosis, an AI healthcare startup that detects changes in brain health through voice analysis, won the competition and is raising a Series A round.
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's president and CEO after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, throwing the tech giant's sprawling AI investments and soaring market dominance into sudden uncertainty as CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim chief.
Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang resigned following revelations of affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a company executive, upending the AI industry kingpin's career and sparking U.S. national security concerns amid a high-stakes technological arms race between Washington and Beijing.
A cyberattack on AI platform Fireworks AI breached its cloud provider and exposed billing information and datasets, including Notion AI chat transcripts belonging to about one percent of Notion customers, highlighting how modern tech supply chains leave companies vulnerable to spillover breaches.
Norwest has raised its largest fund yet at $4 billion, aiming to capitalize on AI startups developing products and services across core industries like consumer, healthcare, and technology with a broad, multi-country investment approach.
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO following reports of affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a direct report. Nvidia CFO Colette Kress has stepped in as interim replacement while the board searches for a permanent successor.
Fitness band maker Whoop is launching a social network called Whoop Humans that lets members share health data with friends and family, as the company pushes further into medical wellness and targets an aging population.
Following the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Donald Trump floated Apple executive chairman Tim Cook as his potential successor, pointing to Cook's unparalleled track record of succeeding a bigger-than-life founder.
Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress behind closed doors by Thanksgiving. The development follows threats of subpoenas from House committee chairs amid questions surrounding Huang's departure following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China.
Phota Labs is a new iOS app that uses a personal AI photo assistant to turn everyday snapshots into professional-looking shots while preserving personal identity and authenticity. Founded by former Adobe employees, the startup aims to automate the editing process so anyone can easily get better photos.
SoftBank took a multi-billion-dollar bath on over-ordered natural gas turbines, highlighting the risks of electricity mania in the AI boom. While data center operators may be finding a ceiling for gas ambitions, the demand remains too massive for mass cancellations.
United Airlines will restrict access to AI agents seeking to book flights and manage reservations, joining banks in citing cybersecurity risks and password-sharing dangers. The airline warns that autonomous assistants expose sensitive data and threaten compliance with federal aviation rules.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called Jensen Huang's exit a really sad day while vowing to keep fighting harder than ever for open-source AI. Nvidia's proposed acquisition of the platform faces antitrust scrutiny, raising questions about the future of open-weight models without Huang's vocal advocacy.
Jensen Huang’s resignation leaves Nvidia’s commitment to open source in limbo, as the loss of its chief advocate threatens to shift company strategy and embolden Washington critics pushing for tighter restrictions on open-weight AI models.
Microsoft’s Outlook and several other major services, including Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot, suffered a widespread outage caused by a large number of servers unexpectedly becoming unavailable, forcing the company to redistribute connection traffic across its worldwide infrastructure.
Marketing operating system Nectar is launching an AI agent designed to automate influencer marketing, from finding the right creators across hundreds of millions of profiles to contacting them with personalized messages, managing partnerships, and tracking campaign results.
Google Search is getting a major upgrade with its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model, promising faster, cheaper, and smarter handling of complex, multi-part questions, nuanced user intent, and advanced reasoning tasks.
If you’re doing something creative, important, or new, rejection is a signal. The reasons listed in rejection letters are almost certainly made up, but we personalize and amplify the pain anyway. Watch what people do, not what they say, and change the situation to learn the real lesson.
ShopPurple is a collection of hundreds of reader-nominated stores worth detouring past Amazon to get to. Built with no business model and only light curation, it features hotlist, category, and random views designed to give small creative businesses a bit of a boost.
Republicans face a defining choice between free-market principles and interventionist visions, while Democrats’ ideological divisions could push health-care proposals toward full government control. Looming entitlement shortfalls and AI disruption will make policy debates harder to avoid. Will be the election when policy makes a comeback.
Old faces seem to crease and crumble as we watch in Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004. Avedon was a pioneer in presenting cool, stark, tough beauty. Shades of decadence are one thing, but decrepitude? Old age is timeless as well as time-limited.
Elizabeth Warren thinks interest on consumer credit cards is too high and wants to cap it at 10 percent. Like any other price ceiling, this would create a shortage of the product it attempts to make more affordable. In trying to rescue consumers from their own financial decisions, Warren would deprive them of their plastic and consign them to infinitely more treacherous alternatives.
The Trump administration is right to take on the problem of improper enrollment. Democratic senators criticizing the crackdown get insurers' financial incentives backward, ignoring how expanded subsidies fueled phantom enrollments that reward unscrupulous brokers and leave taxpayers to foot the bill. Renewing those subsidies risks reviving fraud incentives.
California voters narrowly rejected Proposition 40, a wealth tax that threatened the state's startup economy. The measure originated from an intellectual movement driven by a French academic project, an elite public university, and union backing. Wealth-tax advocates are regrouping, making this California battle a preview of fights nationwide.
Congressional Democrats are already eyeing your money with expansive spending agendas, renewing calls for massive federal programs. But the Trump administration's veto power offers a vital constitutional check against these ambitions. Legislative restraint is a feature of the Founders' design, not a failure.
The naval blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz has transformed a vital shipping lane into an environmental disaster zone. Months of missile and mine attacks on oil tankers have left massive, visible slicks that threaten fragile marine ecosystems, coral reefs, and coastal wildlife across the Gulf. There is no such thing as a clean war. Not for the unlucky humans that are drawn into it, nor for the unlucky environment in which the conflict takes place.
Private firms are engineering Halifax harbour to remove atmospheric carbon by adding an alkaline slurry to seawater, speeding up naturally occurring cycles. While proponents champion this ocean alkalinity enhancement to combat the climate crisis, marine scientists warn that adding materials to a stressed ecosystem without sufficient research risks toxic effects.
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