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OpenAI sweeps in to ink deal with Pentagon as Anthropic is designated a ‘supply chain risk’—an unprecedented action likely to crimp its growth

Anthropic said it would challenge the Pentagon’s decision, which outside experts said may be illegal. But the damage to its business may already be done.

By Jeremy KahnFebruary 28, 2026

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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks lawsuits gets a bit shorter with Novartis settlement

By Brian Witte and The Associated PressFebruary 27, 2026

Exclusive: Flux, backed by 8VC, raises $37 million to vibe code electronics

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 27, 2026

Two restaurant workers wearing black stand in front of a silver "Flippy" fry station.

Meet your new robot fry cooks: Inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box

By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 26, 2026

Exclusive: Crypto trading platform raises $30 million from CMT Digital and Kraken

By Ben WeissFebruary 26, 2026

Senator opens inquiry into Binance over allegations it fired investigators who flagged that more than $1 billion flowed to Iranian entities

By Ben WeissFebruary 26, 2026

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Politics Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and other top universities, including partners on AI and space

By Jason MaFebruary 28, 2026

Middle East Trump calls death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the ‘single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country’

By Jon Gambrell, Konstantin Toropin, Josh Boak, Aamer Madhani and The Associated PressFebruary 28, 2026

Middle East Dubai’s worst nightmare unfolds as Iran strikes Gulf neighbors

By Dana Khraiche, Fiona MacDonald and BloombergFebruary 28, 2026

Middle East FBI raises terrorism alert over fears of retaliation by Iran

By Myles Miller and BloombergFebruary 28, 2026

Middle East Iran’s missile barrage tests whether U.S. has enough interceptors

By Gerry Doyle and BloombergFebruary 28, 2026

Middle East Israel seeks Iran’s decapitation while U.S. hits military targets as Trump backs report of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s death

By Jason MaFebruary 28, 2026

AI Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says ‘we are patriotic Americans’ committed to defending the U.S. but won’t budge on ‘red lines’

By Jason MaFebruary 28, 2026

Middle East Iran is now on ‘death ground’ amid existential threat from U.S. attacks and could ‘go big’ in retaliation, former NATO commander warns

By Jason MaFebruary 28, 2026

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Callosum cofounders (from left) Jascha Achterberg and Danyal Akarca.

AI Exclusive: Startup aiming to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI data center workloads raises $10.25 million

By Jeremy KahnFebruary 26, 2026

Startups & Venture Exclusive: AI financial platform Rowspace raises $50 million led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data

By Leo SchwartzFebruary 25, 2026

Dwelly cofounders Dmitry Khanukov (Co-Founder, CTO), Dan Lifshits (Co-Founder), Ilya Drozdov (Co-Founder, CEO)

Real Estate A startup buying up U.K. real estate brokers and streamlining their processes with AI gets $93 million in funding to fuel expansion

By Jeremy KahnFebruary 25, 2026

Newsletters Exclusive: SolveAI, at eight months old, raises $50 million to take on the AI coding tool race

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 25, 2026

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AI Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible

By Lily Mae LazarusFebruary 24, 2026

Newsletters Why the exploding secondaries market is hard to pin down

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 24, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking in front of a microphone.

AI OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform

By Jeremy KahnFebruary 23, 2026

Newsletters The 29-year old investor who went from selling fake IDs to backing Poppi raises a $75 million fund to invest in brands with a ‘cultural edge’

By Leo SchwartzFebruary 23, 2026

Banking DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, partners with VC giant Granite Asia to counter the region’s lack of capital

By Angelica Ang and Andrew StaplesFebruary 22, 2026

Big Tech Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Bill Gates told him his big bet on OpenAI would be a flop: ‘Yeah, you’re going to burn this billion dollars’

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezFebruary 21, 2026

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Startups & Venture ‘I have a chip on my shoulder.’ Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup Phia to succeed with ‘no ties to my privilege or my last name’

By Sydney LakeFebruary 21, 2026

AI OpenAI forecasts its revenue will top $280 billion in 2030

By Shirin Ghaffary and BloombergFebruary 20, 2026

Newsletters Defy Ventures teaches entrepreneurship in prisons. It changed how I think about founders

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 20, 2026

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Success ‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon

By Dave Smith and Fortune EditorsFebruary 19, 2026

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Crypto American Express and Visa alumni raise $4 million for Rhythmic, which partners with brands to provide financial products for their customers

By Carlos GarciaFebruary 19, 2026

Newsletters Exclusive: Badge raises $17 million to chase the next era of digital wallets

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 19, 2026

At its core, OpenClaw is an autonomous AI agent designed to act as a kind of digital employee,

AI Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger? The millennial developer caught the attention of Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg

By Eva RoytburgFebruary 19, 2026

Success OpenAI is paying workers $1.5 million in stock-based compensation on average, the highest of any tech startup in history

By Preston ForeFebruary 18, 2026

Crypto Exclusive: Kraken acquires token manager Magna as crypto exchange prepares for IPO

By Ben WeissFebruary 18, 2026

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AI Exclusive: Bain and Greylock bet $42 million that AI agents can finally fix cybersecurity’s messiest bottleneck

By Lily Mae LazarusFebruary 18, 2026

Banking Sports-focused prediction market Novig raises $75 million to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket

By Leo SchwartzFebruary 18, 2026

Personal Finance Exclusive: Sen. Bill Frist’s Frist Cressey Ventures raises $425 million fourth fund

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 18, 2026

Newsletters Inside Dragonfly Capital’s $650 million fourth fund and its early bets on Polymarket and Rain

By Leo SchwartzFebruary 18, 2026

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

Success Airbnb CEO says AI is ‘the best thing that ever happened to’ his company—he warns other founders: ‘If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will’

By Emma BurleighFebruary 17, 2026

Photo: D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz at Qubits 2026, the company's annual conference.

Big Tech D-Wave CEO shrugs off short attacks with ‘revolutionary’ $550 million quantum computing acquisition

By Jim EdwardsFebruary 17, 2026

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AI AI investments surge in India as tech leaders convene for Delhi summit

By Beatrice NolanFebruary 17, 2026

Crypto Exclusive: Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’

By Leo SchwartzFebruary 17, 2026

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Newsletters The AI startup that has quietly become one of Europe’s most valuable AI companies

By Lily Mae LazarusFebruary 17, 2026

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Commentary Private equity’s playbook to shake off the zombies: meet the continuation vehicle

By Sunaina Sinha HaldeaFebruary 14, 2026

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Startups & Venture Jake Paul and his $65 million fortune are gaining influence in Silicon Valley

By Jake AngeloFebruary 14, 2026

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