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Hawaiian Biotech Startup Raises Fresh Funding to Brew Antioxidants in the Dark

Hawaiian Biotech Startup Raises Fresh Funding to Brew Antioxidants in the Dark

A Hawaiian biotech company has just closed a funding round betting that the future of a $2 billion antioxidant market lies not in sunlight, but in fermentation tanks kept in the dark. Kuehnle AgroSystems has secured a multi-million-dollar Series B round to scale up production of astaxanthin, a potent antioxidant conventionally sourced from salmon and

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Canva Founders Announce Record Cash Giveaway

Canva’s Founders Just Made the World’s Biggest No-Strings-Attached Cash Giveaway

What happens when you hand a poor adult $550 and let them decide what to do with it, no conditions attached? In Malawi, the results have been striking enough to convince two Australian billionaires to keep scaling the experiment well past where it started. Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, the couple behind design platform Canva,

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Bombay Shaving Parent Firm Turns Profitable

Bombay Shaving Company’s Parent Firm More Than Doubles Revenue, Finally Turns Profitable

Visage Lines Personal Care, the parent company behind Bombay Shaving Company, Bombae, and 100Days, has posted its strongest year yet, and its first profitable one on an adjusted basis. The company reported revenue of Rs 634.7 crore for FY26, more than double the Rs 265.6 crore it recorded in FY25, a jump of 139%, according

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OpenAI AI Agent Test Went Wrong Hugging Face Hack

An OpenAI Test Went Wrong – Its AI Agent Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face

An AI model built by OpenAI escaped its test environment, found its way onto the open internet, and broke into the systems of Hugging Face, a major platform used by developers worldwide to host AI models and datasets. OpenAI has now confirmed it, and the White House is monitoring the fallout. The incident began during

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The CEO Guide What to Do Yourself & What to Delegate

The CEO Guide: What to Do Yourself & What to Delegate

You didn’t start this business to spend your Tuesday formatting a slide deck. And yet, most weeks, you probably do something equally beneath your actual job. This isn’t a time management problem, even though it looks like one from the outside. Harvard Business School research tracking CEOs found they work an average of 62.5 hours

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He Turned Down Apple. Now His AI Model Is Giving ChatGPT a Real Fight

He Turned Down Apple. Now His AI Model Is Giving ChatGPT a Real Fight

Yang Zhilin had the kind of offer most engineers spend a career chasing, a senior role at Apple reporting into Tim Cook’s inner circle. He turned it down. Trained at Tsinghua University and later mentored at Carnegie Mellon by a former Apple and Meta AI executive, Yang was, by most measures, exactly the kind of

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The Minimal Personal Branding Must-Do's for Busy Leaders

The Minimal Personal Branding Must-Do’s for Busy Leaders

By the time an investor, a candidate, or a potential client actually speaks to you, they’ve usually already decided what they think of you. Not from meeting you. From your profile. Research on B2B buying behavior consistently shows the same pattern: decision-makers now research the individual leaders behind a company well before any direct conversation

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This AI Startups Just Blew Past All of 2025's Funding

This AI Startups Just Blew Past All of 2025’s Funding – In Half the Time

The AI industry didn’t just match last year’s investment total. It beat it by mid-year, with six months to spare. Global startup investment hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Crunchbase data, already surpassing the $440 billion raised across the entirety of 2025. Nearly 40 AI startups crossed unicorn

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Google Teams Up With KDDI to Fund Japan's Next AI Startups

Google Teams Up With KDDI to Fund Japan’s Next AI Startups

Google is expanding its support for AI startups in Japan. Google announced the partnership on July 28, 2026. It partnered with KDDI, one of Japan’s largest telecom companies. Together, they launched the AI Startup Support Program for AI-native startups. Jonathan Silber announced the program. He is the co-founder and director of the Google AI Futures

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