“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.
At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Bernie Sanders Vows Legislation to 'Stop Flock and AI Mass Surveillance'
The Vermont senator warned that the surveillance company's 120,000-plus AI cameras are pushing the US toward a "surveillance state," adding a prominent voice to a growing bipartisan backlash.
Bitcoin's Oldest Coins Are Waking Up in 2026 at a Pace Rarely Seen
Galaxy Research shows coins untouched for 10-plus years moving at an unusual pace in 2026, with six ancient wallets shifting $40 million in a single 10-day stretch this month.
The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy
As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains.…
I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’…
BitGo Buys NYDIG's Institutional Trading Arm to Beef Up Derivatives and Financing
The roughly $42.5 million cash-and-stock deal adds derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities, while letting NYDIG focus on its power and data-center business.
CFTC Signals Supreme Court Battle After Nevada Wins Prediction Markets Case
A court’s ruling that sports event contracts are not swaps that are regulated exclusively by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) set the stage for a Supreme Court case, a CFTC spokesperson told PYMNTS Friday (Aug.…
The statement came after a Friday ruling in a court battle between Nev…
The Nevada Gaming Control Board said that the Friday ruling by the Nin…
The ruling came in the Board’s court battles with three companies that…
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.
Genius Group Targets Bitcoin Treasury Rebuild 5 Months After Selling Off
Genius Group, a company that operates a bitcoin and artificial intelligence (AI) dual treasury strategy alongside its core education business, plans to acquire $827 million in bitcoin treasury and $800 million in AI treasury by its fiscal year 2031, the firm said in a Thursday (Aug.…
27) press release.
Genius Group plans to fund the acquisitions with a five-year capital p…
2 billion shelf registration that was declared effective by the Securi…
OCC Rewrites Enforcement Playbook to Focus on Big Bank Risks
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued two revised policies and procedures manuals and proposed amendments to Violations of Laws and Regulations framework Thursday (Aug.…
27), saying in a press release that these moves will focus supervisory…
Announcing these materials in a Thursday post on X, Comptroller of the…
Gould said: “A supervisory culture based on check-the-box compliance c…
BIS General Manager Says Tokenized Deposits Beat Stablecoins for Digital Payments
Tokenized deposits are more likely than stablecoins to perform the role of money, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said Friday (Aug.…
In a speech delivered at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, hosted b…
In terms of singleness, or the ability of monetary units to be redeeme…
Tokenized deposits, on the other hand, are account-based bank liabilit…
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
Experian and JPMorgan Push Account Checks Into Payment Workflows
Faster payments leave businesses with less time to discover whether the account at the other end belongs to the wrong person, contains bad information or may be connected to fraud.…
That pressure is moving verification closer to the point where money l…
A series of August launches is putting account and payee checks into p…
Experian and International Payments Identity (iPiD) announced Thursday…