Entrepreneurship

AI Safety Debate Grows as Altman Signals a Slower Pace
The loudest voice in artificial intelligence just changed his tune, and founders should take note. In a shift covered by TechCrunch on August 2, OpenAI chief Sam Altman said...
AI Layoffs Are Accelerating: How Founders Should Hire
If the steady drumbeat of tech job cuts has you worried, you are not alone, and the numbers explain why. A running list of major 2026 layoffs shows more...
AI Agents Reach Enterprise Scale as HappyRobot Raises $150M
Enterprise AI just took a big step from demos to daily operations, and a fresh funding round proves it. According to the company’s Series C announcement on August 4,...
Microsoft plans to unveil next-gen AI chip in September: report
Tech firm said to have talked with TSMC to secure production capacity for over 300,000 units for delivery in 2027Published Mon, Aug 10, 2026 · 10:40 PM[SEATTLE] Microsoft is...
Intel plans US$15 billion share sale as turnaround rally lifts stock
Tech giant is looking to fund the build-out of its chip contract manufacturing businessPublished Mon, Aug 10, 2026 · 09:00 PM[SANTA CLARA, California] Intel on Monday (Aug 10) said...
​Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds are betting big on AI, but the central bank isn’t so sure
Having MAS that worries out loud and two reserve funds that hedge while they buy might be the most sensible set-up available[SINGAPORE] Within three weeks in July, three of...
BOJ flags upside price risks and possible faster rate hikes
Published Mon, Aug 10, 2026 · 10:58 AMTHE Bank of Japan flagged rising risks of inflation heating up in a summary of opinions from its July meeting, with one...
HKEX offers deeper capital pools to primary, secondary listings from S-E Asia
Bourse positioning HK as complementary fundraising venue, says head of global issuer services Johnson Chui[SINGAPORE] When Indonesian miner Merdeka Gold Resources secured a secondary listing in Hong Kong in...
Apple tests China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks, WSJ reports
Published Sun, Aug 9, 2026 · 08:41 PM[BEIJING] Apple has been testing memory chips from China’s CXMT across product lines including iPhones and MacBooks, to mitigate a component shortage...
Insider Selling in Focus as Bezos Files to Sell $4B
Jeff Bezos has filed to sell about $4 billion in Amazon stock, disclosing plans to offload roughly 15 million shares just after the company topped a $3 trillion valuation...
Data Center Energy: A Teen Dropout’s $1B Nuclear Bet
A nuclear startup founded by a teenager just raised one of the year’s boldest rounds, and it lands squarely on the data center energy crisis. Valar Atomics closed a...
Peloton Earnings: First-Ever Profit Holds a Founder Lesson
Peloton closed its 2026 fiscal year with something it had never reported before: a full year of net income. The company shared the milestone in its fiscal 2026 results...