Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch. Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come. The story includes bootstrapping…
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Fried chicken dining chains were the leading subsector of the fast-food industry in 2025 as traffic to chicken concepts rose 3% in the year ending September 2025, while all concepts dropped 1% compared to the previous year, according to market research firm Circana, as reported by Fast Company…
Bank of America (BAC) just sent a clear message to Washington following renewed talk of capping credit-card interest rates at 10%. CEO Brian Moynihan didn’t mince words, saying that although the idea may sound consumer-friendly, a hard cap will likely compel banks to limit credit, especially for …
In Brief Posted: 4:49 PM PST · January 15, 2026 Image Credits:Drew Angerer/Bloomberg / Getty Images Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those efforts have been just that: experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that, and it just signed a major deal with…
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Image Credits:Higgsfield 11:28 AM PST · January 15, 2026 Through an extension to its previous $50 million Series A round that closed in September, AI video generation startup Higgsfield has sold another $80 million worth of stock, bringing its total Series A to $130 million. The company says it has now hit a $1.3 billion…
A couple of economic and policy factors are currently influencing real estate industry opinion leaders’ predictions for the near future — especially regarding mortage rate changes. For one, President Donald Trump recently announced that he has instructed the federal government to purchase an …
The debate over when the Federal Reserve will finally start cutting rates just picked up a new and unnerving variable: a criminal investigation into the sitting Fed chair. Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry into Jerome Powell over the roughly $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal …
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