Saturday, November 7, 2026
Submit your startupVCs, funding, deals, markets and the economy behind tech.
Business / Fortune ·
Pentagon data puts U.S. war costs above $47 billion, and Moody’s estimates households have paid nearly $2,000 each. Oil’s post-election drop may not last.
Business / Fortune ·
More than 99% of all international data is carried not by satellites but by a physical backbone of subsea cables.
Business / Fortune ·
Two days after voters overwhelmingly rejected data centers, the companies that make the chips, networking gear, and other tech for the facilities saw their stocks crushed.
Business / Fortune ·
Chip and AI stocks led a delayed selloff on fears new Democratic governors will pause data centers. Analysts split on how long.
Business / Fortune ·
Boeing also joined the list of dozens of companies refusing to participate in the venture cochaired by former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Business / TechCrunch ·
Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
Business / Fortune ·
OpenAI took its Dev Day roadshow to London this week, attempting to sell the city’s developers on Dots, the company’s new, always-on AI assistant.
Business / Fortune ·
Fuel for each cabin rose from $1,800 to as much as $8,000 a month, and founder Mikael Petterson says the Iran war broke the business.
Business / Fortune ·
GPT-6 Cyber will initially be available to a small number of approved customers due to concerns that, in the wrong hands, it could supercharge cyberattacks.
Business / Fortune ·
Hinojosa has questioned a $1.66 billion tax break for Musk’s $16.8 billion Terafab chip plant, and Democrats now control the Texas House.
Business / Fortune ·
The young people in those streets did not come out of nowhere. The last 20 years did real damage.
Business / Fortune ·
The Twitch streamer is seeking $72.5 million from CNN’s Scott Jennings over a spliced clip. His lawyer says Ted Cruz and others should “buckle up.”
Business / Fortune ·
Abdul El-Sayed’s University of Michigan speech impressed Bill Clinton so much that he encouraged the future senator-elect to go into politics.
Business / Crunchbase News ·
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively.
Business / Crunchbase News ·
Dropbox has announced plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark its largest acquisition since its founding in 2007.
Business / Fortune ·
Blockchain Capital led the Series A for the startup, which uses blockchain to track ownership of physical uranium.
Business / Fortune ·
Running AI now costs more than training it.
Business / Fortune ·
The breach always makes news. The patch never does.
Business / Fortune ·
Americans are frustrated too, and those same affordability concerns are the top issue in this year’s midterm election.
Business / Fortune ·
Cecile Guegan’s promotion comes as women’s share of global CFO appointments fell to 20% in the first three quarters of 2026.
Business / Fortune ·
A 30-something needs about $120,000 in net worth
Business / Fortune ·
Though the midterms have been dubbed “the AI election” and a resounding repudiation of tech, it’s hard to tell what all this practically means.
Business / Crunchbase News ·
Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised about $1.6 billion so far this year — more than 4x the $389 million recorded in all of 2025 — according to Crunchbase data. The surge was driven by three companies that raised the majority of the funding.
Business / Fortune ·
In a first of its kind experiment, Gemini and Muse agents scored the highest when it come to carrying out tasks like buying a TV.