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Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is de...
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
Guterres: Old global order must change as power shifts to emerging economies
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders of a bloc of major emerging economies in New Delhi on Sunday that a more balanced global order requires an overhaul of the institutions built after the Second World War,...
Married at 13, pregnant and starving: Child brides of Yemen
Fatimah* was 13 when she was married off to an older man. Two years later, she gave birth to twin daughters.
NFL and midterm elections set up prediction markets for a critical fall season
The 2025 football season and 2024 presidential election pushed prediction markets into the prominence they enjoy today.
The US military is preparing for mass casualties in a major war. Its dentists say it's overlooking toothaches.
Army dentists warn toothaches and infections could sideline troops and strain evacuation systems in a future large-scale war.
I moved away from my home country 6 years ago. When I returned, I felt like an outsider.
Six years ago, I left my home country, Mexico, and moved to New York, then to the UK. When I returned to Mexico, I realized how much I had changed.
Links 9/13/2026 | naked capitalism
Our strategic daily links: perfect form, predicting suicide, hotteset August, flying Chinese trucks, EU industry, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigrat...
The Sunday Morning Movie Proudly Presents: Blade Runner Final Cut (2007) Run Time 1H 57M Plus Bonuses! | naked capitalism
Blade Runner is a movie about what it is to be human in a world of artificial humans.