Tech & AI

Early-stage venture firm A* on Tuesday announced a $450 million Fund III. The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories including AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security.The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million and $5 million, with the aim to back at least 30 startups. The capital will

eBay’s board of directors has formally rejected GameStop’s unsolicited bid to acquire the e-commerce company, bringing an unceremonious end to one of the stranger corporate stories of the year. In a press release issued Tuesday morning, eBay’s board called the proposal from GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen “neither credible nor attractive,” citing concerns about GameStop’s financing

The odds that the Trump family will launch a full-fledged prediction market product this year just plummeted. Last year, the Trump Media and Technology Group announced Truth Predict, a partnership with the cryptocurrency company Crypto.com. The initial announcement touted Truth Predict as a “new product” that would allow Truth Social users to make trades on

Instructure, the maker of the popular school information portal Canvas, said on Tuesday it has “reached an agreement” with the hackers who breached its systems twice, stole a huge amount of student and staff data, and disrupted thousands of schools that rely on the company’s software. ShinyHunters, a financially motivated cybercrime group, took credit for

OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a cyber defense suite of tools that uses the intelligence of the company’s LLMs to find and remedy software vulnerabilities. The company hasn’t freely released the tools to everyone; instead, it’ll be “working with (…) industry and government partners” as it prepares to deploy “increasingly more cyber-capable models” in the future.

Hoka running shoes have been popular with trail and mountain runners (or “skyrunners”, if you prefer) since the company’s inception in 2009. But it was only during the Covid-19 pandemic that we all threw fashion out the window and became obsessed with these insanely puffy, comfy shoes. The iconic, everyday Cliftons are the most popular

Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a standard regulatory step that allows it to work through the approval process before making details public. Unlike its first fund, which currently holds stakes in 10 late-stage