3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (215+ words) Behind the glitz of multimillion-dollar funding rounds that define today’s unicorns are often years of founder sacrifices and barely-there paychecks. Kirill Bigai, the cofounder and CEO of online education marketplace Preply, paid himself virtually nothing for an entire year while…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (628+ words) Ken Griffin has told a version of this story before. At Stanford Business School in May, the Citadel founder admitted that he’d recently gone home one Friday “actually fairly depressed” after realizing what AI could now do — a stunning reversal…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (969+ words) In the hope he’ll land a job in finance, Andre Bonnick spends hours rehearsing what he’s going to say. He’s using key words from job listings, making eye contact — following advice he’s gotten from recruiters. But Bonnick, a student at…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (394+ words) Geordie AI, a London-based startup which provides a security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital. The round, which values the company at $155 million post-money, is believed to be the…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (470+ words) When the World’s Fair came to Queens, New York, in 1964, robots were shown taking over housework, coming soon to a home near you. When the Fair closed, the exhibits moved to Disney World and made the same claim for the…...