News•Feb 10, 2026
Elle, MD, Hiive, and LiORA Among Latest CIX Startup Awards Winners
Elevate announced the 14 winners of its 2026 CIX Startup Awards, chosen from more than 370 applications by a 94‑member investor committee. The awardees span three maturity tiers—Emerging, Early and Growth—and include fintech platform Hiive, geothermal pioneer Eavor, climate‑tech firm LiORA, and biotech company Elle, MD. Half of the winners are impact‑focused ventures and 75% feature female founders or C‑suite leaders. All winners will present at the CIX Summit in Toronto on March 25.
By BetaKit (Canada)
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Impact Beats Tools: Solve a Problem Today
The tools don't matter. The framework doesn't matter. The stack doesn't matter. What matters: Did you solve someone's problem today? That's the only metric that counts.
By Luca Restagno
Blog•Feb 10, 2026
Cooley’s 2026 Year Ahead for Life Sciences M&A: Competition and Creativity in a Dynamic Environment
Life‑sciences M&A rebounded in 2025 after a brief slowdown, highlighted by J&J’s $14.6 billion Intra‑Cellular acquisition and a surge in platform‑focused deals addressing $150 billion of patent‑cliff risk. Regulatory dynamics shifted as the FTC adopted a more predictable, traditional antitrust approach, while...
By Cooley M&A (Cooley LLP)
News•Feb 10, 2026
Fund Manager FINQ Lets AI Run US ETFs
FINQ has introduced two U.S. large‑cap equity ETFs—AIUP and AINT—where an artificial‑intelligence model exclusively selects, weights and rebalances holdings. The AI engine ranks every S&P 500 component daily using market, financial and textual data, guiding long‑only and long‑short exposures respectively. The...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 10, 2026
Ssense Founders Can Buy Back Company, Court Rules
Montréal‑based luxury e‑commerce platform Ssense will be reclaimed by its founders after a Quebec Superior Court dismissed lenders' request for a forced asset sale. The court approved a founder‑led buyback valued at $78 million, including a $58.5 million cash payment and assumption...
By BetaKit (Canada)
Blog•Feb 10, 2026
The HSR Early-Warning System: How Filing Surges Amplify Cyber and eDiscovery Bottlenecks
The Hart‑Scott‑Rodino (HSR) filing calendar showed a sharp February 2025 spike followed by sustained high volumes through December 2025 and a solid January 2026 count. This surge compresses M&A diligence windows, forcing cyber, data‑privacy and eDiscovery teams to operate at...
By ComplexDiscovery
News•Feb 10, 2026
Sen. Warren Plans Bipartisan Legislation with Sen. Banks that Bans the Sale of Certain AI Chips to China After Dario...
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown announced a bipartisan bill to prohibit the export of certain advanced AI chips to China. The legislation follows a meeting between OpenAI co‑founder Dario Amodei and Warren, where concerns about China’s use of AI...
By Techmeme
News•Feb 10, 2026
Forecast: Tariff Policies Will Weaken Container Imports in First Half of 2026
The NRF and Hackett Associates’ Global Port Tracker predicts U.S. container imports will fall in the first half of 2026, with a 2 percent year‑over‑year decline to 12.27 million TEUs. Full‑year volume is projected at 25.4 million TEUs, a 0.4 percent drop from 2024....
By Supply Chain Quarterly
News•Feb 10, 2026
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter Steps Down After More than 30 Years with the Company and Plans to Retire; CFO...
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter announced his retirement after more than three decades leading the robotics pioneer. Playter, who guided the development of flagship robots like Spot and Atlas, will hand the reins to CFO Amanda McMaster as interim chief...
By Techmeme
News•Feb 10, 2026
Aeroplay Entertainment Names André Valera CEO
Aeroplay Entertainment announced André Valera as its new chief executive officer. The inflight entertainment content service provider aims to evolve from traditional onboard content to a personalized, measurable, commerce‑ready travel media layer. Valera outlined plans for a modern platform that accelerates...
By PAX International
News•Feb 10, 2026
'Observational Memory' Cuts AI Agent Costs 10x and Outscores RAG on Long-Context Benchmarks
Mastra’s open‑source observational memory replaces dynamic retrieval with two background agents that compress conversation history into a dated observation log. The approach achieves 3‑6× compression for text and up to 40× for tool‑heavy outputs, keeping the context window stable and...
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 10, 2026
Sharp's Plan to Sell Japan LCD Plant to Parent Foxconn Falls Through
Sharp announced that its plan to sell the Kameyama No. 2 LCD panel plant in Mie Prefecture to parent company Foxconn has collapsed, prompting a shutdown slated for August. The company will cut 1,170 jobs through early‑retirement packages and record a...
By Japan Today – Business
News•Feb 10, 2026
Honda Reports Declining Profit
Honda Motor Co announced a 42% plunge in profit for the nine months through December, falling to 465.4 billion yen from 805.2 billion yen a year earlier. Sales dipped 2.2% to 15.98 trillion yen, yet the company kept its full‑year profit forecast of...
By Japan Today – Business
News•Feb 10, 2026
Estée Lauder Sues Walmart Alleging 'Despicable' Sale of Counterfeit Beauty Products
Estée Lauder has filed a federal lawsuit against Walmart, alleging that the retailer’s online marketplace allowed counterfeit versions of its La Mer, Le Labo, Clinique, Aveda and Tom Ford products to be sold. The beauty giant says it purchased and tested several items that...
By CNBC – US Top News & Analysis
News•Feb 10, 2026
Mattel Acquires Full Ownership of Mattel163 From NetEase
Mattel announced it will acquire NetEase’s 50% stake in the mobile‑gaming joint venture Mattel163, valuing the studio at $318 million. The deal, slated to close by the end of Q1 2026, will be funded largely with cash generated from the existing partnership....
By GamesBeat
Social•Feb 10, 2026
AI Dominates Startups, yet “Why Now?” Still Matters
Thanks for resurfacing this, Dimitry Gershenson 🙏 ❤️ So much has changed since we put this together in 2023 (i.e. AI dominating the startup ecosystem) but also, not much has changed (i.e. the importance of asking "why now?").
By Angela Tran Kingyens
News•Feb 10, 2026
Agentic Workflows: Revolutionizing AI-Powered Sales
Agentic workflows—AI‑driven, task‑orchestrating agents—are reshaping go‑to‑market (GTM) operations by embedding native intelligence into sales, marketing, and enablement platforms. They automate repetitive actions such as CRM updates, content recommendation, outreach sequencing, and pipeline prioritization, allowing reps to focus on high‑value selling...
By Highspot
News•Feb 10, 2026
KPMG Starts Tax AI Accelerator Program
KPMG has launched a Tax AI Accelerator Program to help corporate tax departments adopt generative AI. The initiative provides hands‑on training, a secure Azure OpenAI‑based sandbox called Digital Gateway, and access to KPMG’s “Think, Prompt, Check” framework. More than a...
By CPA Practice Advisor
Blog•Feb 10, 2026
Why the CEO-Led Growth Model Breaks at Scale
Growth-stage firms that rely on a founder‑led, informal go‑to‑market model encounter a predictable breakdown as revenue scales beyond $10 million. The article maps three failure phases—heroic effort, functional silos, and compounding failure—showing how misaligned sales and marketing erode forecast accuracy, talent...
By Chief Outsiders Blog
Blog•Feb 10, 2026
Markets Are Now a Beauty Contest on Steroids
The article revisits Keynes’s beauty‑contest analogy, arguing that human psychology still drives markets, but the information age has accelerated opinion‑chasing. It uses the recent silver frenzy—spurred by geopolitical tension, AI‑related demand, and massive leverage—to illustrate how social media and bots...
By A Wealth of Common Sense
News•Feb 10, 2026
AdvaMed Names New EVP of Technology and Regulatory Affairs
AdvaMed announced Melissa Torres as its new executive vice president of technology and regulatory affairs, succeeding long‑time leader Janet Trunzo. Torres arrives with more than two decades of FDA leadership, most recently as associate director for international affairs at CDRH....
By Medical Design & Outsourcing
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News•Feb 10, 2026
Trump Expects An Economic Miracle From The New Fed Chair
President Donald Trump urged his Fed chair pick, Kevin Warsh, to deliver 15% annual GDP growth, a target rarely achieved outside wartime. The president’s demand follows criticism of current chair Jerome Powell and calls for aggressive rate cuts. Economists note...
By Investopedia — Economics
News•Feb 10, 2026
How Employees Can Use LSAs to Pay for Groceries and Other Basic Needs
Employers are turning to Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs) to let staff use benefit funds for everyday needs like groceries, childcare and health services. Data from benefits platform Compt shows 64% of partner firms now use LSAs as their primary benefit,...
By Employee Benefit News
News•Feb 10, 2026
Garner Health Lands $118M Series D
Garner Health announced a $118 million Series D round, bringing its total capital to roughly $200 million. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint, Maverick, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Mercy, Plus Capital and existing backers. Garner’s platform uses a 320 million‑record...
By VC News Daily
News•Feb 10, 2026
Report Finds Trump’s Tariffs Cost U.S. Households $1,000 on Average in 2025
The Tax Foundation reports that Trump‑era tariffs added an average $1,000 to U.S. household expenses in 2025, rising to $1,300 in 2026. A weighted average tariff rate of 13.5% pushed the effective rate to 9.9%, the highest since 1946. Companies...
By CPA Practice Advisor
News•Feb 10, 2026
Algorized Scores $13M Series A Round
Algorized announced the close of a $13 million Series A round led by Run Ventures, with participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Acrobator Ventures. The startup builds an edge‑native nervous system for Physical AI, delivering a Predictive Safety Engine that turns...
By VC News Daily
News•Feb 10, 2026
Deloitte: Shining a Spotlight on Strategic Internal Audit
Deloitte’s internal audit leader Mike Schor argues that internal audit must shed its "gotcha" image and become a strategic partner to the CFO. He recommends a proactive branding effort that showcases audit capabilities and aligns the function with finance’s broader...
By CFO Dive
News•Feb 10, 2026
Trener Robotics Raises $32M Series A to Bring Physical Intelligence to Industrial Automation
Trener Robotics announced a $32 million Series A financing round co‑led by Engine Ventures and IAG Capital Partners, bringing its total capital to over $38 million. The round will fund the scaling of Acteris, the company’s robot‑agnostic AI skills platform that lets operators...
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 10, 2026
19 States Offer Tax Credits for Private School Scholarship Donations
Eighteen states now offer tax credits for donations to scholarship‑granting organizations that fund private‑school tuition, mirroring Ohio's program. Ohio’s credit, introduced in 2021, has cost the state over $80 million in lost revenue and reduced tax collections by $21 million in fiscal 2024...
By CPA Practice Advisor
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Unlock Tax‑Free Wealth: Use a Stocks & Shares ISA
5 reasons why a Stocks & Shares ISA is the best way to build wealth in the UK 🇬🇧 1. Easy to open in minutes 2. You choose how much to invest 3. Access to global ETFs & funds 4. Withdraw anytime, no lock...
By Pastel Portfolio
Blog•Feb 10, 2026
Lee Touts Digital Subscriptions Strategy as Subscribers Churn; Co. Gets Debt Reprieve
Lee Enterprises reported a 10% drop in total operating revenue to $130 million for Q4 2025, while digital subscription revenue grew 5% to $22.7 million. Despite the revenue boost, the company’s digital‑only subscriber base shrank from 728,000 in March to 609,000 by year‑end,...
By A Media Operator
News•Feb 10, 2026
EPA Will Revoke 'Endangerment Finding' That Underpins All Climate Regulation This Week
The EPA announced plans to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health, a cornerstone of U.S. climate regulation. The move, submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, represents the Trump administration’s most...
By CNBC – US Top News & Analysis
News•Feb 10, 2026
Who Wrangled the Best Trade Deal From Donald Trump?
President Donald Trump recently secured trade agreements with Argentina and India, offering limited tariff reductions to facilitate U.S. exports. Both deals faced immediate domestic backlash: Indian farmer unions called the pact a “total surrender” and French officials described the EU‑U.S....
By The Economist – Finance & Economics
Podcast•Feb 10, 2026•44 min
Why High Performers Burn Out First (and How to Stop It) with Guy Winch
In this episode, psychologist and bestselling author Guy Winch explains why high‑performers are the first to burn out, debunking the myth that burnout only affects the disengaged. He explores how autopilot, procrastination, rumination, and after‑hours email habits hijack our lives,...
By Transform Your Workplace
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Historical Base Rates Reveal AI Growth Realities
We have a new report out today, "Bayes and Base Rates: How History Can Guide Our Assessment of the Future." -We place projected sales growth rates of some artificial intelligence (AI) businesses in the context of history. - We review...
By Michael Mauboussin
News•Feb 10, 2026
Beyond Blocs
The article argues that the world is moving beyond bloc politics toward issue‑based cooperation, with Europe seeking strategic autonomy while engaging China on a case‑by‑case basis. Recent high‑level visits to Beijing by European and other leaders underscore this shift. Trade...
By Foreign Policy
News•Feb 10, 2026
Stoke Space Technologies Nabs $860M Series D
Stoke Space Technologies announced an extension to its Series D round, bringing total capital raised to $860 million, up from the $510 million disclosed in October 2025. The infusion will fund activation of Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral and expand production capacity...
By VC News Daily
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Join Free Hands‑on AI Workshop for Finance, Sales, Ops Leaders
If you lead a finance, sales, service, or ops team and you're still trying to figure out where agentic AI fits, this is the room you want to be in. I'm keynoting at Microsoft Times Square on Feb 26 with...
By Allie Miller
Social•Feb 10, 2026
PE Overvalued Saa
Entrepreneurs: private equity firms OVERVALUED SaaS companies during 2020-21. NOW, those “overvalued” companies are getting marked down 30-60% 🤯 If you’re an investor = BUY distressed assets LOW If you’re a startup founder = CASHFLOW CASHFLOW
By Sherrard Harrington
News•Feb 10, 2026
Prediction Market Kalshi Reached $1bn in Trading Volume During Super Bowl
Kalshi, a U.S.‑based prediction market, recorded over $1 billion in trading volume on Super Bowl Sunday, a 2,700% year‑over‑year surge. More than $145 million was wagered on Bad Bunny’s opening song and $45 million on his guest performers, despite the platform not running a...
By The Guardian » Business
Social•Feb 10, 2026
NFP Outlook: Expectation Management Raises 23K vs 15K
#NFP tomorrow. After yesterday's verbal managing of expectations from Hassett and Miran. Will NFP hit 23K ? 15K ?
By Ashraf Laidi
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Russia's Economy Outpaces UK Despite Sanctions
A dirty little secret that the Russiaphobes in London keep under the rug: RUSSIA’S ECONOMY IS OUTPACING THE UK’S. SANCTIONS = BACKFIRE = RARELY WORK. https://t.co/FLcUb0QXGw
By Steve Hanke
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Screen‑time App Earns $40K Profit by Stopping Scrolling
$40K profit for helping people stop scrolling. Live on @acquiredotcom: screen time app that automatically boots users out when their timer runs out. > $48K TTM revenue > $40K TTM profit > 500+ paying users Full listing: https://t.co/iTEIt81XrI https://t.co/vb6LdS8811
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Startups Can Grow Tenfold, YC Fuels the Boom
What do I believe that few other people believe yet? Startups can and will be 10x bigger YC’s role to make that happen. We're the tree of prosperity: minting more great founders so that both the mega-platforms and the boutiques have...
By Garry Tan
Social•Feb 10, 2026
US Political Will to Aid Venezuela Near Zero
Distinguished Columbia Univ. Professor Jeff Sachs on Venezuela: “The will to run Venezuela other than maybe in Marco Rubio's and Donald Trump's head is zero in the United States… a year from now, Venezuela is a forgotten issue in the United...
By Steve Hanke
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Future Teams: PMs Code, Architect Manages Infrastructure
anyone with theories on how software teams will evolve? today: 1 eng, 1 PM, 1 designer (EPD) tomorrow: 10 PMs who vibe code all day + 1 eng architect (the architect creates the scaffolding and writes adversarial agents to manage tech debt, security, scalability issues) Thoughts?
By Andrew Chen
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Climax Top Signals Bear Market for Precious Metals
OUT NOW - @BergMilton on: - clear sign of "climax top" in gold & silver - why he expects a precious metals bear market - S&P 500, Bitcoin, Software + Korean stocks & more Apple🔊https://t.co/bNqmCOVqMV Spotify📽️https://t.co/mnN6Dn02hi 1/3 https://t.co/U3F0Pxojhy
By Jack Farley
Social•Feb 10, 2026
New BLS Commissioner Signals Positive Economic Outlook Amid Trump
I'm trying something new: Video essays exploring recent economic developments. There's... a lot to talk about these days. Here's the first one: Thoughts on Trump, the BLS, and the new BLS Commissioner. Spoiler: This is a good news story. https://t.co/M4NltoNXJR
By Justin Wolfers
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Falling Software Valuations Demand 409A Repricing Decisions
Software valuations are falling which means 409As that are getting updated now will fall too. Should you reprice underwater stock options? Here is everything to consider: https://t.co/VumYhlVzRr
By OnlyCFO
Social•Feb 10, 2026
U.S. Stocks Under Pressure as SPX/VEU Hits Near Two‑Year Low
The 'sell America' trade pressure seems to be picking up again. The SPX-VEU (rest of world equity ETF) ratio is the lowest since April 22nd. A little further and it is a two year low. Adding the DXY Dollar Index in for...
By John Kicklighter