When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we documented the demographic freight train bearing down on America’s college campuses — a declining birth rate, shuttering institutions, and a generation of students that simply never arrived. But while administrators have been laser-focused on the enrollment cliff ahead, a second...
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The Human Cost of the Machine: AI, Public Companies, and the Soul of Capitalism
Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at Block — the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay. Forty percent of the entire workforce, gone in a memo. And here’s the kicker: the company’s business is doing just fine. Gross profit up 24% year-over-year. Stock jumped 24% on...
Iran: The New Proxy Battleground — And the War Has Already Started
The chess match for Iran’s future didn’t start Saturday. It started the moment Washington, Moscow, and Beijing each decided — separately, quietly, and with cold calculation — that whoever controls the next Iranian government controls the next chapter of Middle Eastern history. What happened on February 28, 2026 was simply the moment that calculation went loud. In the pre-dawn hours...
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- Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikesby Tim De Chant on March 5, 2026 at 3:02 pm
The startup, co-founded by […]
- Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a feeby Ram Iyer on March 5, 2026 at 2:24 pm
Meta will allow rival AI […]
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When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we...
The Human Cost of the Machine: AI, Public Companies, and the Soul of Capitalism
Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at...
Iran: The New Proxy Battleground — And the War Has Already Started
The chess match for Iran’s future didn’t start Saturday. It started the moment Washington, Moscow, and Beijing each decided —...
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- Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikesby Tim De Chant on March 5, 2026 at 3:02 pm
The startup, co-founded by Tesla and Apple alumni, has sold nearly 1,000 of its motorbikes so far.
- Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a feeby Ram Iyer on March 5, 2026 at 2:24 pm
Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to €0.1323 per "non-template […]
- Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to marketby Connie Loizos on March 5, 2026 at 2:00 pm
A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.
- How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startupby Maggie Nye, Isabelle Johannessen on March 5, 2026 at 1:15 pm
On this episode of Build Mode, David Park joins Isabelle Johannessen to discuss how he and his team are intentionally iterating, fundraising, and […]
- Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurementby Dominic-Madori Davis on March 5, 2026 at 1:00 pm
AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
- Rivian is betting its future on one of the fastest EV launches in US historyby Sean O'Kane on March 5, 2026 at 1:00 pm
If Rivian reaches its R2 sales target in 2026, it will be one of the fastest ramp-ups ever of a new EV in the United States.
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answersby Connie Loizos on March 5, 2026 at 1:08 am
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not […]
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report saysby Amanda Silberling on March 4, 2026 at 10:40 pm
Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.
- Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says reportby Amanda Silberling on March 4, 2026 at 9:43 pm
The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it's unclear how effective this intervention will be.
- Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%by Sarah Perez on March 4, 2026 at 8:05 pm
Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for […]
- His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.by Theresa Loconsolo on March 4, 2026 at 7:34 pm
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries […]
- US and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing stolen passwords and hacking toolsby Zack Whittaker on March 4, 2026 at 7:01 pm
Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of hacked databases […]