Darko Pavic, Founder & CEO of Fiscal Solutions, Retail Technology & Global Fiscalization Expert with 28+ Years of Experience. gettyRetailers still tend to treat culture as a marketing layer, something that helps decorate a campaign after product, price, channel and supply chain have already been decided. K-beauty, for example, shows why that view is increasingly…
River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. (AMP PBC is an AI-focused investment firm founded in 2026 by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney…
“CMS’s proposal would encourage one thing above all else: investing less in improving existing medicines,” says health expert Sally Pipes. “That’s a costly tradeoff for patients—and one Medicare shouldn’t make.”Getty ImagesThe Trump administration says it wants to accelerate medical innovation. Yet one new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could do just…
Image Credits:Sila 8:22 AM PDT · August 10, 2026 Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand production of its silicon-carbon battery material. The loan, which was announced Friday, arrives as U.S. battery buyers, from automotive companies to defense contractors, struggle to procure battery…
Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant Klaviyo was inadvertently sharing the sign-up information of its new customers, including their passwords, with outside advertisers. Sam Jadali, a security researcher and co-founder of cybersecurity startup Melurna, told TechCrunch that the web form on Klaviyo’s sign-up page was misconfigured between at least February…
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In Brief Posted: 12:41 PM PDT · August 8, 2026 Image Credits:J Studios / Getty Images NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working on ChatGPT. The NextSlide website currently displays a note from founder Ahmed Beshry describing the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes,…
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