A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time-consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior executives of potential targets and modeling financial outcomes, these groups spend millions of dollars on external advisers: accountants, lawyers, and management consultants. Since expenses for external advisers are not reimbursed…
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks, including appointment scheduling, documentation, and patient verification, among other things. Amazon Connect Health is HIPAA-eligible and connects with electronic health record (EHR) software. The platform is currently partnered with EHR…
Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” happening June 4-10…
Digital transformation is usually framed as a productivity story. We talk about efficiency. Speed. Cost reduction. Automation. Competitive advantage. But beneath those headlines sits a quieter shift—one that leaders often underestimate. A new systematic review published in Human Resource Management Journal synthesizes 61 interdisciplinary studies on how digital technologies influence the meaning of work .
Image Credits:Decagon 10:32 AM PST · March 4, 2026 Decagon, an AI-powered customer support startup, is set to announce the completion of its first tender offer, allowing its more than 300 employees to sell a portion of their vested shares at the company’s latest valuation of $4.5 billion. The less-than-three-year-old company’s employee secondary is being…
Image Credits:Atta Kenare/AFP / Getty Images 9:20 AM PST · March 4, 2026 The aftermath of Anthropic’s dispute with the Department of Defense has left the company in an awkward place — being both actively in use as part of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran and decoupling from many of its clients…
Amazon proudly debuted its first official image from its upcoming live-action God of War show, and the internet promptly tore it to shreds. It showed actor Ryan Hurst as Kratos and Atreus actor Callum Vinson in costume for the first time, hunting in the woods, and it just looked…weird. I’m not sure I saw a
For generations, the path to a respected university followed a predictable, if stressful, script. But the 2025-2026 admissions cycle is shaping up to be a period of historic upheaval. A “perfect storm” of policy reversals, technological disruption, demographic shifts, and legal mandates is fundamentally rewriting the rules of the game. For families, this creates a
In Brief Posted: 5:53 PM PST · March 2, 2026 Image Credits:Cursor The AI coding assistant Cursor has surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue, according to a Bloomberg source. This individual says the four-year-old startup saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months. The disclosure appears timed to counter a recent wave…
As the Ozempic Generation seeks to make its calories count, one Minneapolis-based manufacturer of pea and soy protein powders has been quietly grown into an AgTech powerhouse amid shelves lined with protein-packed cereals, pastas and sports drinks. “What GLP1-users all want is to get more protein in their diet,” says Tyler Lorenzen, CEO of Puris…





