Venture capital is bigger than it’s ever been—but that doesn’t mean the industry is better than it’s ever been. I’ve often written in this newsletter about how venture capital is becoming a hyper-concentrated, seesaw-skewed sector of finance. And no matter…
Like Elon Musk and governments around the world, Vietnam wants more babies, and it’s offering women cash to set their careers aside to have multiple. The government is pledging VND 1.8 trillion ($68 million) a year in cash bonuses to…
Inflation has remained stubbornly elevated across the United States and Europe, driven by everything from energy costs to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. But in the Netherlands, central bankers pointed to an unlikely contributor: a Harry Styles concert residency…
Job seekers, be warned: the toxic manager you deliberately left off your reference list might already be on the phone with your future boss. The CEO of the $4.8 billion software company, Netskope, has revealed he doesn’t just call the…
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has become one of the most prolific philanthropists of the modern era by writing massive, no-strings-attached checks to non-profits. And her giving spree shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon, despite having donated nearly half of…
Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: Amazon’s CTO on the AI coding revolution. All the news from AI for Good. SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5. And OpenAI says a key benchmark is broken. I’ve been on…
A new Federal Reserve survey offers a somber look at how young Americans are getting by: a lot with their parents’ help, from paying a phone bill to even living at home. The data comes from the Fed’s Report on…
Yoevan Khemlani had already begun building his AI company in Singapore when he realized that all his customers were looking somewhere else. Khemlani had started Interfaze, a startup offering a specialized AI model for backend tasks like web scraping, with…
The Stanford economist and remote work researcher who helped explain the Great Resignation says many companies are never going back to being fully in-office, and the flexibility offered by remote work is a major reason why. Despite years of high…
President Donald Trump praised SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell on Thursday after she and her husband announced an undisclosed SpaceX stock gift to Trump accounts that the president said amounted to $325 million. “Thank you to the brilliant and highly respected…