Gulmohar Capital Partners Unveils GRCS Trust with $30m
Gulmohar Capital Partners has launched the GRCS Trust, a permanent‑capital platform backed by $30 million to acquire and scale software firms in the governance, risk, compliance and security (GRC) space. The trust will pursue a long‑term buy‑and‑build strategy, targeting lower‑mid‑market companies with $2‑20 million in recurring revenue. Its first anchor investment is CurrentWare, a Toronto‑based endpoint visibility and insider‑risk platform acquired in March 2025. Backers include Peterson Partners, M²O, Next Coast Legacy and other institutional investors.
Who’s Afraid of OpenAI?
OpenAI’s accelerating pace of model development is prompting businesses to reconsider direct competition. Companies are weighing whether to build in‑house AI, partner with OpenAI, or adopt alternative strategies. The debate intensifies as OpenAI’s products become more embedded in enterprise workflows,...
BNY Surges Past Wall Street's Expectations
Bank of New York Mellon posted a record fourth‑quarter revenue of $5.18 billion, up 7% year over year, and net income of $1.47 billion, a 27% increase. Earnings per share came in at $2.02, beating analysts’ $1.90 consensus by 12 cents. The...
ElevenLabs CEO Says the Voice AI Startup Crossed $330 Million ARR Last Year
ElevenLabs reported $330 million in annual recurring revenue, reaching that milestone in just three years after launching its first product in 2023. The company accelerated from $100 million ARR in 20 months to $200 million in 10 months, and hit $330 million in the...
The Essential Reading Series: Satellites
The Essential Reading Series: Satellites curates a dozen titles that trace the evolution of satellite technology from Cold‑War origins to modern commercial and strategic uses. It covers GPS’s transformation into a backbone for logistics, finance and smartphones, the pioneering Corona...
Kardex Enhances StoreX Calculator for AutoStore Planning and Expansion
Kardex Solutions, together with iAutomate, has launched an enhanced StoreX Calculator to streamline AutoStore system design and expansion. The tool leverages real operational data to run scenario‑based models that forecast grid size, robot count, ports, costs, and implementation timelines. By...
Beginner Crypto Guide: How Digital Money Fits Into Personal Finance Basics
The article serves as a beginner’s guide to incorporating cryptocurrency into personal‑finance plans, outlining budgeting, investment tactics, and security measures. It recommends starting with fractional purchases, diversifying across major coins, and using dollar‑cost averaging to mitigate volatility. Readers are urged...
Private Securities Secondaries Topped $110 Billion in 2025 – Report
Private securities secondaries surged to $110 billion in 2025, eclipsing the $89 billion recorded in 2024, according to HarbourVest Partners. The growth reflects heightened investor demand for liquidity and the increasing prominence of GP‑led transactions within private market portfolios. Technological advances are...
Prioritize the Right Platform, Don’t Spread Yourself Thin
Important Reminder for All Marketers: 👇 Yesterday I was chatting with a client (boat retailer) that told me they wanted to focus more on their LinkedIn efforts. My response: Why would you put your energy on a B2B platform when...
Identity Under Siege: What the Salt Typhoon Campaign Reveals About Trusted Access Risks
The Salt Typhoon espionage campaign compromised email accounts of U.S. congressional staff by exploiting stolen credentials rather than deploying malware. Attackers blended into normal email and cloud traffic, maintaining persistent, low‑noise access to sensitive communications. The breach underscores that identity systems...
Harnessing the Medicinal Benefits of Thyme Extract via Nanodosing
Russian researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic and Surgut State Universities have demonstrated a microfluidic technique that encapsulates thyme extract in gelatin‑alginate nanodroplets within an oil carrier. The process creates self‑regulating nanodoses, preventing rapid evaporation and skin irritation associated with raw thyme...
'Backward and Upward and Tilted': Spaceflight Causes Astronauts' Brains to Shift Inside Their Skulls
A MIT study using MRI scans of 26 astronauts and 24 controls found that prolonged exposure to microgravity causes the brain to move backward, upward, and rotate within the skull. The positional shifts, measured up to 2.5 mm, were observed across...
DeepSeek’s Conditional Memory Fixes Silent LLM Waste: GPU Cycles Lost to Static Lookups
DeepSeek introduced Engram, a conditional memory module that separates static pattern retrieval from dynamic reasoning in large language models. By allocating roughly 25% of sparse capacity to memory and 75% to computation, the system achieves O(1) lookups via hash tables...
GitGuardian Closes 2025 with Strong Enterprise Momentum, Protecting Millions of Developers Worldwide
GitGuardian reported record ARR growth in 2025, fueled by rapid enterprise adoption across North America and Europe. The platform now safeguards over 115,000 developers, monitors more than 610,000 repositories and 210,000 collaboration‑tool sources, a seven‑fold increase from the prior year....
Onsetto Closes $2.2m Seed Funding Led by EJF Ventures
Onsetto, a fintech platform that automates business account switching, closed a $2.2 million seed round led by EJF Ventures, with participation from Idea Fund, The Perch Fund and regional angels. The financing will accelerate AI‑driven product enhancements and expand sales and...
Morphological Anomalies Found in Japanese Haemaphysalis Ticks
Japanese researchers have documented the first morphological anomalies in the tick species Haemaphysalis megaspinosa, publishing detailed findings in Acta Parasitologica. The study reports malformed legs, irregular scutum patterns, and atypical mouthpart development, challenging the long‑held view of the species' morphological...
The Perfume Shop Reports Strong Festive Performance
The Perfume Shop posted a robust festive season, with perfume bottle sales climbing 6% year‑on‑year. Between 30 November and 24 December customers purchased over 1.58 million bottles, averaging more than 63 000 per day. December sales rose 1.6%, led by Dior Sauvage, Carolina Herrera Good Girl and Chanel Coco Mademoiselle,...
Molten Ventures Leads £4m Series A in MAIA Technology
London‑based MAIA Technology announced a £4 million Series A round led by Molten Ventures, with Mountside Ventures advising. The fintech startup offers a unified portfolio‑management platform that combines analysis, compliance and trading workflows, replacing legacy, manual processes. The new capital will accelerate...
The RAM Shortage Driving up Tech Prices Won’t End Any Time Soon, Micron Says
Micron warns that a RAM shortage driven by AI data‑center demand will persist until at least 2028, as its existing fabs are fully allocated to AI‑optimized modules. The company’s new Idaho ID1 facility is slated to come online in mid‑2027,...
Convincing LinkedIn Comment-Reply Tactic Used in New Phishing
Scammers are posting fake LinkedIn reply comments that mimic official policy‑violation notices and direct users to malicious links. The fraudsters leverage LinkedIn’s own lnkd.in URL shortener, making the phishing URLs appear legitimate. Impersonated company pages also use the LinkedIn logo...
Polygon Labs to Acquire Coinme, Sequence
Polygon Labs announced a $250 million acquisition of Coinme and Sequence. The Coinme deal will close in Q2 2026, while Sequence is expected to finalize this month, pending regulatory approvals. Coinme brings regulated stablecoin and crypto‑payment licenses across 48 U.S. states, and...
Antwerp’s AZ Monica Hospital Hit by Cyber Attack
AZ Monica hospital in Antwerp suffered a cyber attack on Tuesday, forcing a shutdown of computer systems at its Deurne and Harmonie campuses. The breach was detected at 6:30 am, prompting staff to power down servers and initiate an investigation by...
Revolut Adds Call Identification Feature to Combat Impersonation Scams
Revolut has launched a call identification feature that alerts users when they are on a phone call with the app, indicating whether the caller is a legitimate Revolut agent. The tool displays a banner in real time, offering guidance to...
Digital Health Funding Increases in 2025, Spurred by AI: Report
Digital health funding jumped to $14.2 billion in 2025, the highest level since 2022, driven largely by artificial‑intelligence startups. AI‑focused firms secured 54% of total capital and enjoyed a 19% premium in average deal size versus non‑AI peers. Although the total...
FDA's Regulatory Firewall Cracked, Staff Faces Trauma
Conducting interviews on stage can be emotional. Last night I got to speak with Richard Pazdur, the long-time FDA cancer czar who recently retired, along @ScottGottlieb and former FDA official Julie Tierney. Pazdur changed the way medicines are regulated, getting them...
Portugal Signs Artemis Accords
Portugal officially joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 60th nation to endorse the U.S.-led lunar partnership. The signing completes a near‑full European roster, with only a few states yet to ratify. Earlier reports suggested Latvia had already signed, but NASA’s...
Netcapital Announces First Tokenized Offering as Markets Shift to Digital Securities
Netcapital, a FINRA‑regulated funding portal, announced its first tokenized offering, partnering with PureWave Hydrogen Corp. to issue a securities‑based token representing hydrogen‑drilling assets on the Mid‑Continent Kansas shelf. The revenue‑generating security is touted as the first of its kind, highlighting...
Moneyhub Selected by Nationwide to Create AI-Driven Spending Insights for All Customers
Moneyhub has been selected by Nationwide to power AI‑driven spending insights for the lender’s 16 million UK customers. The firm’s Categorisation and Enrichment engine will analyse every transaction, adding merchant identifiers, website links and location data. This granular view enables users...
Quantum-Dot Device Can Generate Multiple Frequency-Entangled Photons
Researchers at Telecom Paris unveiled a shaping frequency entangling gate (FrEnGATE) that uses a quantum‑dot embedded waveguide to generate multiple frequency‑entangled photons. The device operates in the 1550 nm telecom band and can repeatedly entangle photons without post‑generation filtering. Numerical simulations...
British Business Bank Boosts Midlands SMEs with New ART Business Loans Partnership
The British Business Bank has added Midlands‑based ART Business Loans as the fourth accredited delivery partner for its Community ENABLE Funding programme. The partnership unlocks up to £7 million for West Midlands SMEs, contributing to a £150 million lending target over the...
Open-Source Robotic System Cuts Manual Cell Culture Time by 61% While Boosting Seeding Consistency
Researchers unveiled the Automated Cell Culture Splitter, an open‑source system built around the Opentrons OT‑2 robot and a custom cell‑counting imager. In tests with HEK293T cells, the platform cut hands‑on passaging time by 61% and delivered a 92% usable imaging...
AI Browsers Are Creating a New Governance Gap
AI‑enhanced browsers are embedding large‑language‑model capabilities directly into everyday workflows, turning the browser into an invisible assistant. This shift creates a new form of shadow AI that bypasses traditional IT detection because interactions appear as ordinary browsing. Employees increasingly rely...
SoftSnow Becomes Zapier Silver Solution Partner, Expanding AI Automation Services
SoftSnow, an AI consulting firm, announced its new Zapier Silver Solution Partner status, enabling it to embed Zapier’s low‑code automation across 8,000+ apps. The partnership expands SoftSnow’s AI Strategic Transformation methodology with enterprise‑grade security, governance, and scalable workflow design. By...
Focus on Product-Market Fit, Buyers Come Naturally
“Businesses get bought, not sold.” - A random private equity fund bossman. I sold Robly in 2021, and I didn't go looking for a buyer. Robly was a grind. Only got to $3M ARR. Tiny company in a super-saturated space (didn't have...
A Quarter-Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyond
Over 25 years, the International Space Station has become a unique microgravity laboratory, enabling breakthroughs in protein crystallization, disease research, and space agriculture. Experiments such as Angiex Cancer Therapy and NanoRacks‑PCG have produced higher‑quality crystals that inform targeted cancer drugs,...
Tasq AI and BLEND Announce Merger to Launch the “Trust Layer” For Global Enterprise AI
Tasq AI and BLEND have merged to form a unified platform that delivers a “trust layer” for enterprise AI, combining Tasq’s proprietary data‑refinery technology with BLEND’s global crowd of millions and 25,000 domain experts. The new entity, operating under the...
The Essential Reading Series: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Essential Reading Series curates a diverse collection of books that explore the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) from scientific, cultural, and philosophical angles. Titles range from Carl Sagan’s fictional dramatization in *Contact* to Paul Davies’ analytical works on the...
When the Marketing Graph Becomes the Target Map
A Wired investigation uncovered that Google’s ad service hosted audience segments tied to highly sensitive groups, allowing marketers and potential adversaries to target mobile devices linked to government employees and executives. The article warns that modern ad‑tech pipelines collect granular...
Your Day Job Can Teach 11 Entrepreneurial Lessons
Some of the best founder training happens in your 9 to 5 if you’re curious enough to notice. In episode 815, I share 11 unexpected lessons a day job can teach you about entrepreneurship. Listen here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gfJNG6qV
The Path to Solar Weather Forecasts Is Paved with Drops in Cosmic Rays
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and partner agencies have demonstrated a new way to monitor coronal mass ejections by tracking drops in cosmic‑ray intensity, known as Forbush decreases, using instruments not originally designed for science on multiple spacecraft. In...
Formatting Numbers for Fluency Boosts Recall
Does something look off about this phone number? Or does something seem really right? Usually we see the last 7 digits break into a group of 3, followed by a group of 4. But here, they break into a group...
Tech Roles Now Dominate UK Finance Hiring, up 12%
Software and tech roles now claim 16% of finance vacancies—edging out investment management and banking at 15% each. The hiring signal is clear. AI and tech skills drive 12% rise in finance job vacancies in 2025 in the UK. https://t.co/SZximqlQwW https://t.co/p4haTYDTHh
Blast From the Past: A Rocket History Quiz
Space.com released a rocket‑history quiz that walks readers from ancient gunpowder experiments to today’s reusable launchers. The interactive format highlights milestones such as Tsiolkovsky’s liquid‑propellant theory, Goddard’s 1926 flight, the V‑2 missile, and the Saturn V moon rocket. It also spotlights...
AI Wins by Replacing, Not Automating, Deterministic Workflows
Most companies claim they are becoming AI first. Almost none understand what that actually requires. The surprising truth: AI does not transform your business by automating existing workflows. It transforms it by replacing deterministic workflows entirely. I explore this with @hala_zeine, Chief Strategy...
Epiploic Fat Fuels Inflammation in Severe Obesity
Fat surrounding the large intestine (epiploic) is rich in immune cells and can drive inflammation. Study in people with severe obesity. @Cell_Metabolism https://t.co/kN1B77XrCm https://t.co/YlNrpCGZjI
New Cell Studies Link EBV to Multiple Sclerosis Mechanisms
3 new reports @CellCellPress on the mechanistic underpinnings of multiple sclerosis and Epstein-Barr virus involvement https://t.co/JXThwhZugq https://t.co/fO1aDsZmmB https://t.co/fO1aDsZmmB https://t.co/eUNrrRGw0s
Deep Product Knowledge Outweighs CEO Polish
For a long while, you probably aren't a great CEO But you know the customers The software The feature gaps The roadmap The competition How to sell it How to market it How to build it So maybe as flawed as you are You are still the best CEO
Boston Dynamics Robot Becomes Versatile On‑Set Cameraman
Boston Dynamics' #Robot Evolves into Multi-Talented Cameraman by @aitrendz_xyz #MachineLearning #AI #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #Innovation https://t.co/wM7GhT5uxS
Total‑body MRIs Yield High False‑positive and False‑negative Rates
Total body MRI scans generate lots of false positive results. Then there's the false negatives, too. https://t.co/7NITyu2sqM @PeterWhoriskey https://t.co/PW1Q2XjOn4
