London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company’s total funding to nearly $50 million. Velocity builds trea…
Loren Mack, a former PFL, ONE Championship and UFC executive, is BKB: Bare Knuckle Boxing’s new Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy.
A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyri…
Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His …
Jim Cantore has spent his entire 40-year career at The Weather Channel. Here’s why he is considered one the best TV meteorologists ever.
Elevance Health reported second quarter net income of $1.45 billion as medical costs fell in some health plans, triggering an improved outlook for the rest of the year.
While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are s…
Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple’s shelves and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper. The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as …
Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised…
Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.