Darie Nani
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MarketsRental Concessions Remain Common in the Sun Belt as Coastal Rents Climb Faster
In Charlotte, Denver and Dallas, roughly two in three rental listings now come with a discount, while San Francisco rents have climbed 8.2% over the past year with concessions on just a quarter of listings.
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Artificial IntelligenceAI Agent Security Failures Expose the Limits of Self-Governance
An OpenAI testing agent broke out of its sandbox this month, exploited a zero-day flaw in a package registry proxy, and infiltrated Hugging Face's servers while chasing solutions to a benchmark test it had not been asked to cheat on.
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Artificial IntelligenceAmericans Would Let AI Run Their Job Search, but Few Know It Can Be Biased
A new national survey finds nearly half of US adults would let artificial intelligence negotiate their salary, even as a separate academic study finds language models give measurably biased pay advice.
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Artificial IntelligenceG2 Report Finds AI Speeds Software Discovery but Extends Enterprise Evaluation as CFO Vetoes Rise
Godard Abel, G2's chief executive, says every vendor now makes the shortlist faster, but the bar for winning the deal is higher than ever.
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FinTechMembers
US Retail Investors Gain a FINRA-Regulated Route Into Tokenized Stocks
Oasis Pro Markets, the SEC-registered broker-dealer Ondo Finance bought last year, is now cleared to settle those trades in stablecoins or fiat directly between blockchain wallets.
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Science & TechAmericans Now Spend Hours a Week Fact-Checking What AI Tells Them
Source trust is now the single biggest hurdle in research, and human expertise still beats AI summaries four to one, with students the most skeptical demographic of all.
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BusinessThe Unilever Deal Will Leave McCormick's Own Shareholders in the Minority
The $44.8 billion combination with Unilever's Foods arm splits McCormick into four divisions, adds a London share listing, and keeps its headquarters split between Maryland and the Netherlands.
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BusinessGerman Healthcare Group Fresenius Launches €200 Million Venture Capital Fund
The new unit, Fresenius Ventures, will target precision nutrition, microbiome research and digital care start-ups over the next five years under newly appointed managing director Thomas Thestrup.
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MarketsNearly One-Quarter of US Homes Face Severe Climate Risk, but Prices Rarely Show It
The reckoning is arriving anyway: through HOA fees running up to seven times higher in the most exposed states, federal flood insurance coverage quietly shrinking as premiums climb, and mortgage delinquency rates rising in Gulf Coast markets already under strain.
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Green TechMembers
Natural Hydrogen Company Koloma Wins Third Philippines Exploration Contract
The Denver company's permitted search area in the Philippines now covers more than 1,600 square miles, the latest expansion of a hunt for a fuel that forms underground with none of the carbon cost of making hydrogen artificially.
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MarketsHarley-Davidson Raises Full-Year Guidance After Net Income Falls 26%
The increase rests on a 3% rise in North American retail motorcycle sales and a 17% cut in dealer inventory, evidence the company says points to healthier demand rather than deeper discounting.
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Science & TechMembers
Augmental Opens Public Sales for MouthPad, Its Tongue-Controlled Computer Mouse
The San Francisco-based human-machine interface company, whose team includes researchers from MIT, UC Berkeley, and Neuralink, has opened general availability after two years of early-access testing.
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BusinessMembers
Warehouse Robotics Firm Hai Robotics Deploys 948 Robots at LPP Group's New Bucharest Fulfillment Centre
The six-month rollout of 278 case-handling robots and 670 autonomous mobile robots at LPP Logistics' Southeastern European hub offers a concrete benchmark for the pace and scale achievable in fashion warehouse automation.
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Artificial IntelligenceMembers
AI Inference Chip Maker femtoAI Posts 5x Growth as Sparsity Architecture Gains Enterprise Traction
The San Bruno startup, founded by researchers from Stanford University's Brains in Silicon Lab, now has more than 200,000 of its Sparse Processing Units in the field across consumer audio, home appliances, and smart glasses, with robotics and data center energy management added to its target markets in 2026.
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Artificial IntelligenceMembers
Private Capital CRM Affinity Launches Ascend, an Agent Platform That Automates Investment Workflows
Ascend lets investment teams deploy AI agents inside Affinity or through Claude and ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol, routing operational tasks to software so analysts can concentrate on relationship-building and deal judgment.
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Artificial IntelligenceTaiwan Contract Manufacturer Wistron Opens First US Factory to Mass-Produce NVIDIA's Most Advanced AI Chips
The United States now has its first domestic production site for NVIDIA's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, but whether a single $700 million factory shifts the balance of American AI manufacturing depends on what comes next.
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Science & TechMembers
Quantum Computing Firm Quantinuum and SoftBank Outline Enterprise Use Cases That Don't Require Fault-Tolerant Hardware
The white paper, published jointly by Colorado-based quantum computing company Quantinuum and Japanese telecoms and technology group SoftBank, maps two specific problem classes against Quantinuum's hardware roadmap and argues enterprises can build operational readiness now, before large-scale fault-tolerant systems exist.
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Science & TechMembers
ByteDance, Huawei, and Unity Join 3D Data Standards Body as OpenUSD Pursues ISO Certification
The additions bring Chinese consumer and enterprise platforms into a coalition whose founding members include Apple, NVIDIA, and Pixar, with ISO accreditation now in progress for a specification increasingly treated as infrastructure for AI and robotics workflows.
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StartupsMembers
3D Generative AI Startup Meshy Raises $400 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation
The Silicon Valley company has built 12 million users and 12x year-over-year ARR growth by moving AI-generated 3D models from screen-ready to production-ready, and now holds the largest funding round in the category.
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BusinessGarmin Acquires TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic in Fitness Ecosystem Play
Coaches and athletes who depend on TrainingPeaks alongside their Garmin devices will now find both under a single corporate roof, raising questions about third-party integrations and the future of the platforms as standalone tools.
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Artificial IntelligenceMembers
Tax Software Platform TaxAct Launches Claude Connector via MCP to Deliver Guidance Inside AI Conversations
The integration, built on Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, reflects a pattern emerging across regulated financial tools: connecting foundation models to proprietary knowledge bases rather than building AI from scratch.
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Science & TechMembers
Biocomputing Startup Intactis Bio Seeks $5 Million for a Processor Built on Living Neurons
The Salt Lake City company, based in Recursion Pharmaceuticals' startup accelerator and backed by about $1 million in early funding, says stem-cell-derived neurons can run AI workloads at a fraction of silicon's energy cost.
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FinTechMembers
Institutional Digital Asset Platform Talos Connects Kalshi Prediction Markets to Professional Trading Infrastructure
The integration gives hedge funds and market makers a path to prediction market exposure without adding a separate system, a sign of how quickly the asset class is maturing for professional use.
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Science & TechMembers
Cybersecurity Startup American Binary Becomes First VPN Provider to Have All Post-Quantum Security Properties Independently Verified
Independent cryptographers have formally verified every security property of American Binary's MaxKyber VPN protocol against the NSA's CNSA 2.0 standard, a depth of scrutiny that no other VPN product, classical or post-quantum, has previously undergone.
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