Entrepreneurship
Building Responsibly: How AI Data Centers Are Navigating the Power and Water Crunch
As AI development accelerates, attention is increasingly turning to the physical infrastructure needed to support it. The past few years have been marked by rapid development of AI models...
AI Regulation Gets a Push From Anthropic and OpenAI
Global AI stocks fell on Monday after Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published a weekend essay asking rival labs to deliberately slow frontier model development. SoftBank closed Tokyo trading...
AI Content Creation Drives Pocket FM Past $500M ARR
Pocket Entertainment, the parent company of audio drama platform Pocket FM, announced on September 10 that it has passed $500 million in annual revenue run rate, growing 70% year...
AI Job Displacement Fears Miss What Main Street Did
Small businesses that started using artificial intelligence added staff faster than comparable businesses that did not, according to research Gusto published on September 10. The payroll company tracked 1,593...
Startup Funding Reaches Founders Who Left Silicon Valley
Furo’s three co-founders are all 28, and they traded the Bay Area for Germany before closing $4 million from mostly American backers, TechCrunch reported on September 10. Lena Sophia...
Vendor Risk Management: 5 Moves After the IDScan Breach
Identity checking company IDScan has confirmed that hackers pulled driver’s license records out of its cloud systems, TechCrunch reported on September 10. The stolen material includes full names, license...
Startup Valuation Reset: Miro Sells at 92% Discount
The Italian software buyer Bending Spoons will pay $1.36 billion in cash for collaboration software maker Miro, TechCrunch reported on September 10. Miro carried a $17.5 billion price tag...
LTL Freight: 5 Ways Merchants Cut Heavy Shipping Costs
ShipStation has pulled less-than-truckload shipping into its main platform, so small and mid-sized sellers can quote, book and track LTL freight in the same place they already handle boxes....
Why Startups Fail: Record Funding, Record Shutdowns
SimpleClosure, a firm that handles company wind downs, has published its shutdown data for the first half of 2026, and the picture is more useful than the headline suggests....
Merchant of Record Push Opens Emerging Markets Faster
Payments company dLocal has launched dMoRe, a merchant of record service aimed at companies that want to sell into fast-growing consumer markets without opening an office there. The announcement...
