Salman Shahid, CEO at Noah Technology. gettyArtificial intelligence is no longer a test case in digital marketing. It is becoming a structural requirement. Yet across organizations, a similar pattern is emerging where AI pilots succeed, but enterprise adoption stalls. Teams experiment with AI-driven content, automate segments of paid media or utilize predictive models in isolation.…
Road sign on a German autobahn.gettyAs Europe searches for its next wave of energy transition and industry 4.0 solutions, technology startups driving the continent’s fourth industrial revolution or “4IR” are increasingly heading to a particular part of Germany in their droves – the Munich-Dresden corridor. An aggregation of Deutscher Startup-Verband and registry origination data from…
Three months ago, Goldman Sachs was warning clients that the U.S. economy had a one-in-four chance of tipping into recession. The bank just cut that number by 10 percentage points, and the reason has nothing to do with anything the Federal Reserve did. Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius …
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Image Credits:Wayve 7:04 PM PDT · June 30, 2026 Wayve, a U.K.-based self-driving tech startup, is allowing its employees to sell a portion of their vested equity. The $85 million tender offer — essentially a structured opportunity for employees to sell shares back to investors — is being led by the company’s existing and new…
Apple iPhone 17Getty ImagesJune 30 update: this post, first released on June 29, was updated to reflect Apple’s confirmation that this update was issued early as a response to hackers. Apple’s latest iPhone software has just been released, almost a month after iOS 26.5.1, which was exclusively for iPhone 17 series handsets and iPhone Air.…
Image Credits:Kimberly White / Getty Images 4:00 PM PDT · June 30, 2026 What if one pitch changed everything? The last time TechCrunch brought Startup Battlefield to Sydney, two little-known startups stepped onto the stage. What happened next led to more than $85 million raised. If you want your shot, applications close in just a…
JPMorgan’s chief global economist Bruce Kasman titled the bank’s mid-year outlook “Promise and Pressure.” He published it on June 28. The two words are doing a lot of work in a year that has moved faster than most forecasters expected. The promise is that global growth is stabilizing in the second …
China’s Zhipu AI says its newest model can find software security bugs as well as Anthropic’s most tightly restricted system. The claim landed this week with no benchmark paper behind it, just a viral post. That hasn’t stopped it from rattling a market already nervous about what’s propping up …
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