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OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a less than 20% stake to Architect Capital at a valuation of more than $3 billion, down from a previously announced stake of around 60% at a valuation of around $5.5 billion (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Uncapped with Jack Altman: Max Mullen of Instacart Conversations with people I admire about things that really interest…

Technology

Anthropic plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it is in talks to raise $1 billion for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

Technology

Bluesky CEO talks about his new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky’s AT protocol, which uses Claude and allows users to create personalized feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: From Skeptic to True Believer: How OpenClaw Changed My Life | Claire Vo Interviews with world-class…

Business & Money

Estée Lauder in talks to merge with Puig as part of ongoing turnaround plan

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

An Estée Lauder pop-up store is seen inside a Daimaru store on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, 6 August 2021.Cost…

Politics

Trump’s Iran peace talks seem imaginary

By Frank M. EverettMarch 23, 2026

Behind Donald Trump’s unexpected assertion that the United States wants a peace deal with Iran lie familiar patterns, and talks…

Technology

Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Social radars: Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator’s…

Technology

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 billion valuation (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 13, 2026

The information: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to…

Technology

online luxury DTC brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $10 billion, up from $4.5 billion in July; its annualized revenue rate reached around $2 billion (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI revenues explode, Dario’s memo, McDonald’s CEO’s baby burger The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

Technology

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise around $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of $7.5 billion, up from $3.3 billion in 2025; its annualized revenue reached ~$1 billion, a 3-fold increase from mid-2025 (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

The information: Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise around $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of $7.5 billion,…

Technology

Jensen Huang talks about Nvidia’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI "this might be the last time" he invests in the company, because OpenAI is "will become public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 4, 2026

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI ‘could be the last time’ he…

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Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Vercel says it detected unauthorized access to its internal systems after a hacker using the handle ShinyHunters claimed a breach on BreachForums (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Palantir publishes 22-point summary of Alex Karp’s book, advocating hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Sources: the brilliant "26" in Apple’s WWDC invite, it teases a revamped Siri, memory shortages could push Mac Studio and hit MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at more than $10 billion, which has found success by using data analytics and close ties with manufacturers to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

A look at AI METR, a nonprofit organization whose time horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Browsing: talks

OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a less than 20% stake to Architect Capital at a valuation of more than $3 billion, down from a previously announced stake of around 60% at a valuation of around $5.5 billion (Financial Times)

Anthropic plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it is in talks to raise $1 billion for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

Bluesky CEO talks about his new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky’s AT protocol, which uses Claude and allows users to create personalized feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Estée Lauder in talks to merge with Puig as part of ongoing turnaround plan

Trump’s Iran peace talks seem imaginary

Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 billion valuation (The Information)

online luxury DTC brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $10 billion, up from $4.5 billion in July; its annualized revenue rate reached around $2 billion (The Information)

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise around $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of $7.5 billion, up from $3.3 billion in 2025; its annualized revenue reached ~$1 billion, a 3-fold increase from mid-2025 (The Information)

Jensen Huang talks about Nvidia’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI "this might be the last time" he invests in the company, because OpenAI is "will become public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)