Instagram is trying to woo YouTube creators with six-figure checks
Adam Mosseri is the head of Instagram at Meta. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images Instagram is offering some creators six figures to help make it a long-form video hub. The…
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Read the memo Villa Vie Residences CEO sent to residents as the ship’s finances reached a ‘critical point’
Villa Vie Residences CEO Kathy Villalba implored passengers to help cover fuel costs in an August memo. TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP via Getty Images The boss of Villa Vie…
Chainlink adds weekend pricing for tokenized assets, with Aave as launch partner
The service uses perpetual futures quotes to update reference prices when traditional markets close.
Healthcare
Ro’s CEO showed us its new AI agent — and its bigger plan to own more of your healthcare
Zach Reitano, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ro. Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Telehealth company Ro is launching an AI agent trained on customer data. The agent can recommend…
Hedge Funds
Inside the changes at $37 billion Balyasny’s Corbets stock-picking unit
Dmitry Balyasny's firm has trailed rivals so far in 2026. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images Thomas Stephens and Kevin Cottrell have left Balyasny's Corbets Capital unit. Stephens was the unit's…
Artificial Intelligence
Inside Microsoft, a powerful new AI executive is shaking up some of the company’s most important businesses
Microsoft executive Charles Lamanna. Microsoft Charles Lamanna, head of Copilot, Agents, and Platform, just took over Office and Teams. Teams within his new combined unit have adopted flatter structures amid…
Buyouts
Microsoft expects 5% or fewer eligible employees to take its big buyout
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood Bloomberg/Getty Images Microsoft is offering buyouts to about a quarter of its workforce. In an internal memo, Microsoft's finance boss said the company expects…
Venture Capital
AI coding startup Cognition is weighing a new funding round at a $70 billion to $80 billion valuation
Scott Wu cofounded Cognition in 2023. IMF via Getty Images AI coding startup Cogniton is fielding offers for a new funding round. The round could value Cognition between $70 billion…
DeFi
Avail launches ShieldTX privacy tool targeting copy-trading bots on Hyperliquid
Avail launched ShieldTX, a Hyperliquid privacy tool that creates a separate wallet for each perpetual futures position.
A former CNN executive wants to take on YouTube with his own app
Andrew Morse ran digital for CNN, then spent more than three years running The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Now he's cofounded Phareo, a platform aimed at creators and people who like them.…
Lightspeed is betting this startup can lure shoppers with a feed of AI images. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $7M.
Omer Bar-Tal is the CEO of Dalet Labs. Dalet Labs Dalet Labs, an AI commerce startup, is coming out of stealth mode with a $7 million pre-seed round. It's launching…
AKQA’s former chief creative officers are launching a new agency. Their pitch: Pay us in equity.
Former AKQA global chief creative officers Hugo Veiga and Diego Machado have launched !F Creative Capital. Jennifer Smith A version of this post appears in CMO Insider. Sign up for…
Crypto Custody
Google to preview crypto custody security system as AI threats grow
Google Multi-Party Compute is in private preview, with several major financial institutions testing the technology and parent company Alphabet using it to secure its own digital assets on Ethereum and…
The feds seized a stake in Anthropic from Sam Bankman-Fried’s friends. What happened to the shares?
Two associates of Sam Bankman-Fried invested in Anthropic. After they were sentenced for fraud, their shares entered a legal black hole. ANGELA WEIS/Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Sam Bankman-Fried's Anthropic stake…
Canton-based trading platform Cancore raises $7.2 million at $60 million token valuation
Cancore, a Canton-based trading platform connecting assets on the network with liquidity on public blockchains, has raised $7.2 million in seed funding. Paper Ventures, dao5, ArkStream Capital, X Ventures, MH…
An 11-person startup raised $40 million to challenge robotics’ data-hungry giants
Machenta cofounders Edward Johns and Vitalis Vosylius Oscar May Machenta raised $40 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. It says robots can learn tasks from…
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon weighed ‘difficult trade-offs’ as memory costs squeezed its devices business, internal document shows
Panos Panay, head of Amazon's Devices and Services team CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images Amazon launched a series of new devices this month, including Alexa tablets and Bee AI wearables.…
Artificial Intelligence
Here’s what Microsoft’s buyout offers actually include
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Oliver Berg/picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The offers are individualized to each employee based on their level, location,…
Here’s the buyout package Skydance is offering employees who don’t want to work in person 5 days a week
Skydance has called more employees back to the office under CEO David Ellison. NYSE Skydance, formed by the merger of WBD and Paramount, told employees to return to the office…
DeFi
Y Combinator-backed Mochatrade raises $5.5 million to offer US stock perpetuals to Indian traders
The platform is in beta and plans to open to the public in the coming weeks, co-founder Chetan Manda told The Block.
The app that sought to be the ‘HBO’ of micro dramas is shutting down
Film producer Tommy Harper has sought to bring a Hollywood sensibility to verticals. Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images for Warner Brothers Pictures Film producer Tommy Harper is shutting down his micro drama…
Nvidia’s sales and marketing leadership is seeing a changing of the guard — and new faces are gaining influence
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Bloomberg/Getty Images Nvidia's sales and marketing leadership is changing as its sales pitch evolves. Veterans are retiring, opening the door to internal succession and outside hires.…
Tokenization
Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus
Economics Minister Viktors Valainis says rules could arrive in the first half of next year, but an overdue assessment remains unfinished and no sovereign-bond issuance was identified.
Bitcoin
Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
The securities have financed purchases of nearly 136,000 bitcoin, opening a funding channel that analysts expect to complement the larger ETF market.
