Cascade, a startup building a platform to help architecture, engineering and construction firms find and win projects, has raised a $3.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures and Snowball VC. Launched in 2025, Cascade is the result of its founders, Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, witnessing firsthand the difficulties construction companies face
This essay as they said it is based on a conversation with tony hawkin collaboration with Qunol. It has been edited for length and clarity.. My wife and I enjoy any opportunity to have our children around, now that they are mostly in their 20s and 30s. Our youngest son is going to college next
Snap is the latest major technology company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company reached a “tentative” settlement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its side of the case with the plaintiff, known by
Prediction markets planted their flag on Main Street. Now they are targeting Wall Street. Yesterday afternoon, I spoke with Andy Ross, Kalshi’s institutional director, about the platform’s push to attract institutional investors. The 40-minute conversation covered how Ross is trying to attract bigger players to the platform, the impact it can have on their businesses,
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said
Kylie Jenner looks a lot like Meta’s glasses: there’s no denying they’re popular, but that doesn’t mean they’re not also controversial. (Ask Club Chalamet. Actually, don’t.) It is undeniable that smart glasses with camera and video have been sold: at least 7 million pairs last year. Now, a new wave of attention (and scrutiny) has
