Business & Startups

Didero lands $30M to replace the "manual maze" of procurement with AI agents that automate the $32 trillion global trade market.

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised a record $60M seed round for Entire. The startup aims to build the infrastructure for managing AI-generated code, starting with an open-source tool called Checkpoints.

Kalder CEO Gokce Guven has been charged with defrauding investors of $7M and lying to obtain a US visa. She is the latest Forbes 30 Under 30 alum to face federal indictment.

SpaceX acquires xAI in a $1.25 trillion merger to move AI compute to orbit, setting the stage for a record-breaking June 2026 IPO.

ElevenLabs hits an $11B valuation with $330M in revenue. Here is why Wall Street is betting your voice will replace your keyboard.

TSMC reportedly eyes a 12-fab cluster in Arizona as a new $250B U.S.-Taiwan trade deal shifts the global semiconductor roadmap.

Apple defies "Color-gate" and durability rumors to post a record $143.8B quarter, driven by a 23% explosion in iPhone 17 sales and a strategic AI pivot.

Jack Dorsey slashes 40% of Block’s workforce in a ruthless pivot to AI-driven efficiency. As stock prices soar, the fintech giant signals a permanent shift in how tech companies are built and run.

MrBeast’s Beast Industries has acquired Step, a fintech app with 7 million users, marking a massive shift from content creation to regulated financial services.

JPMorgan Chase has acquired WealthOS to overhaul its UK pension infrastructure. The deal integrates Sri Lankan-engineered tech to power the bank's digital wealth offerings.

WiseTech Global is slashing 2,000 jobs as CEO Zubin Appoo declares the end of manual coding, shifting the logistics giant toward a lean, AI-first engineering model.

Following a brutal 32% drop in console revenue, Microsoft has replaced Xbox veteran Phil Spencer with AI executive Asha Sharma in a desperate bid to shift the company toward cloud economics.

Glean CEO Arvind Jain announces a major pivot to AI middleware as the company hits $200M ARR and a $7.2B valuation.

Airbnb reveals 33% of North American customer support is now AI-managed, driving a stock surge and signaling a massive shift in hospitality labor costs.

Hours after the Trump administration blacklisted rival Anthropic, OpenAI swooped in to secure a classified Pentagon contract and lock down the defense market.

The Trump administration has banned Anthropic from all federal agencies and labeled the AI startup a supply chain risk, severing a massive defense contract and threatening its commercial partnerships.

The EU Parliament just disabled built-in AI tools for lawmakers over data security fears. As bugs expose confidential emails, U.S. tech giants face massive contract risks.

Discord mandates global age verification starting March 2026. Users must verify via AI or biometric ID to escape "teen mode" as global regulatory pressure and IPO rumors mount.