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Millennial investor behind Deliveroo, Scale AI and Figma made millions in his 20s—he shares how Gen Z can spot a startup that’ll make them rich too

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Mignot made his first millions before turning 30 thanks to investments in the likes of Deliveroo before it became famous. Now, he’s revealing how Gen Z can spot the next unicorn—and ...

Sep 7, 2025

Musk: White people are rapidly diminishing minority

Tesla Inc., X.AI Corp., and SpaceX Corp. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk claimed on Sunday that white people are "a rapidly diminishing minority of global population."Musk tweeted his opinion ...

Sep 7, 2025

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

And why the $1.5bn Anthropic books settlement may count as a win for Anthropic...

Sep 7, 2025

Analysts revamp Broadcom price target on OpenAI deal

Analysts offer opinions following earnings and a huge AI deal....

Sep 6, 2025

Toronto neurosurgery team implants brain-computer devices in patients with cervical spinal cord injuries

The surgeries to insert the Neuralink devices were done on August 27 and Sept. 3 at the Toronto Western Hospital....

Sep 6, 2025

OpenAI expects business to burn $115 billion through 2029, The Information reports

ChatGPT creator OpenAI projects a cash burn of $115 billion through 2029, or $80 billion higher than the company previously expected, the Information......

Sep 6, 2025

OpenAI widely thought to be Broadcom's mystery $10 billion custom AI processor customer — order could be for millions of AI processors

Broadcom has secured a $10 billion deal to supply custom AI accelerators and rack-scale hardware to an undisclosed customer — widely believed to be OpenAI — signaling that the design has been validate...

Sep 5, 2025

ChatGPT reigns sovereign in the AI chatbot market share as Microsoft Copilot catches up on Perplexity

ChatGPT secures unmatched dominance with over 80% share, while Microsoft Copilot rises quickly and Perplexity falters against competitive pressure....

Sep 5, 2025

Sam Altman Is Starting To See The Dead Internet Theory

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a tweet about the Dead Internet Theory, and was instantly told that he was part of the problem—but what is the theory, and is it correct?...

Sep 5, 2025

AI Giant Anthropic To Pay $1.5 Bn Over Pirated Books

Anthropic will pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a US class action lawsuit over pirated books allegedly used to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models, according to court documents filed Frid...

Sep 5, 2025

Early Revolut backer Balderton partially cashes out to cement profit

Venture capital firm has sold hundreds of millions of dollars in UK fintech that has enjoyed explosive growth...

Sep 5, 2025

OpenAI Spends $10 Billion to Get Into the Chip Business

Gotta spend that money somewhere....

Sep 5, 2025

California AG to OpenAI: Harm to Children Will Not Be Tolerated

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings this week met with and sent a letter to OpenAI expressing their deep concern over increased reports of how ...

Sep 5, 2025

AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit from authors

Anthropic, a major artificial intelligence company, agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors who alleged the platform had illegally us...

Sep 5, 2025

Reddit Erupts After Epic Games Belatedly Claws Back "Fraudulent" Fortnite Purchases

The Fortnite Battle Royale subreddit caught fire Thursday night as many people reported that they were greeted with a pretty upsetting prompt when they logged into Fortnite, with the game telling them...

Sep 5, 2025

Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms

Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it's taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security. From a report:...

Sep 5, 2025

OpenAI plots new jobs platform for 'AI-savvy' workers

OpenAI is building a platform for "AI-savvy" job seekers as workers raise concerns over AI replacing jobs...

Sep 5, 2025

Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed  —  Isotopes came out of stealth on Thursd...

Sep 5, 2025

Walmart taps OpenAI for employee training

The mass retailer will debut training for employees in 2026 through a partnership with the company behind ChatGPT....

Sep 5, 2025

From $1 million to $23 million in 14 months: How Anthropic is rewriting startup pay.

Anthropic's meteoric rise in valuation from $12.5 billion to $183 billion is rewriting startup pay, creating generational wealth for its engineers....

Sep 5, 2025

Nvidia signs $1.5 billion deal with cloud startup Lambda to rent back its own AI chips — 18,000 GPUs will be leased over 4 years, as Lambda gears up for its IPO

Nvidia, the source of origin for much of the contemporary AI hype, is now looking to rent back its own chips from Lambda. The Green Team is already a heavy investor in the AI startup but will now leas...

Sep 5, 2025

OpenAI boss Sam Altman dons metaphorical hot dog suit as he realises, huh, there sure are a lot of annoying AI-powered bots online these days

We're all looking for the guy who did this....

Sep 5, 2025

Stripe and Paradigm announce joint crypto venture Tempo

Tempo will be led by Matt Huang, Paradigm’s co-founder and managing partner. Read more: Stripe and Paradigm announce joint crypto venture Tempo...

Sep 5, 2025

World of Dypians Goes Gold with 1M YouTube Subscribers and Launch on Binance Alpha

Road Town, Tortola, BVI, Sept. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- World of Dypians ($WOD), a revolutionary MMORPG available on Epic Games, has received the YouTube Gold Award for surpassing 1 million subscr...

Sep 5, 2025

Kraken acquires prop trading platform Breakout, co-founded by ‘Crypto Twitter’ mainstays Mayne and Cred

Breakout was founded by four crypto industry veterans: TraderMayne, CryptoCred, Alex Miningham, and Abetrade in 2023....

Sep 5, 2025

Lambda hires banks for IPO, The Informationr eports

See the rest of the story here. thefly.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investo...

Sep 5, 2025

ByteDance chip design staff suddenly find out they report to Singapore unit, sources say

The employees made the discovery when they were moved into a new group on the company’s internal messaging platform Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Sep 5, 2025

xAI to open office in Seattle

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) and social media company X.AI Corp., better known as xAI, announced on Friday that it is opening a new office in Seattle.In its post o...

Sep 5, 2025

US AI Giant Anthropic Bars Chinese-owned Entities

Anthropic is barring Chinese-run companies and organizations from using its artificial intelligence services, the US tech giant said, as it toughened restrictions on "authoritarian regions."...

Sep 5, 2025

SWIFT CIO questions Ripple and XRP’s readiness for global banking standards

SWIFT’s Chief Innovation Officer, Tom Zschach, has raised doubts about whether Ripple’s technology and the XRP token can meet the standards global banks demand for cross-border settlement. His remarks...

Sep 4, 2025

StubHub, Netskope to Begin IPO Marketing as Soon as Monday

Ticket selling platform StubHub Holdings Inc. and cybersecurity firm Netskope Inc. are planning to start formally marketing their initial public offerings as......

Sep 4, 2025

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?

In the U.S., when a publisher signs a licensing deal with an AI company, newsroom staffers don’t get a cut. Many newsrooms have licensed their content to OpenAI in bulk, for example. A staff reporter’...

Sep 4, 2025