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Researchers mapped U.S. public parks with toxic waste dumps. What they found was frightening (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: superfund sites, hazardous waste, public parks

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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Anthony Ha | tags: awareness, billion, founded

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Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: census, citizenship, funding

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Free Virtual Event | September 15: How to Raise Capital in 2026: Best Fundraising Strategies for Entrepreneurs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Entrepreneur Staff | tags: capital, event, fund

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Nintendo's Switch 2 sells over 23 million units in its first year, outpacing the original's 17 million (techspot.com)

2026-08-06 | by Daniel Sims | tags: billion, million, nintendo

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Google Wallet Now Lets Parents Create Secure Tap and Pay Balances for Kids (cnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Blake Stimac | tags: balance, funds, google

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These College Kids Are Running a $12 Million Real Estate Fund. They Haven’t Made a Dollar From It. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jonathan Small | tags: capital, fund, group

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Hadrian valued at nearly $8 billion after fresh funding as money pours into defense tech (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Samantha Subin | tags: billion, defense, funding

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Scientists up in arms about cuts to UK physics and astronomy (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-06 | by Gibney | tags: cuts, funding, million

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Trump EPA wrongly canceled $20B in climate funds, appeals court rules (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Tim De Chant | tags: accounts, claw, court

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Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Julie Bort | tags: robinhood, y combinator, rvii

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Antigen presentation by CD40<sup>+</sup>MHC-II<sup>+</sup> astrocytes promotes CNS autoimmunity (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lee | tags: education, fellowship, funded

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The Investing Heavyweights That Backed Situational Awareness Before It Blew Up (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-05 | tags: hedge fund, situational awareness, investors

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Saudi-led group completes $55bn purchase of gaming giant EA (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-04 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: saudi arabia, public investment fund, jpmorgan

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Jim Cramer says one hedge fund's collapse cleared the way for tech's rally (cnbc.com)

2026-08-04 | by Alexa Lomonaco | tags: situational awareness, openai, ai infrastructure

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The Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA has closed (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kris Holt | tags: saudi public investment fund, silver lake, affinity partners

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Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: oxide computer, sec form d, funding

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Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: mental health startups, dataset, classification labels

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This $200M project funded by Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio aims to save Earth’s most threatened species (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: bezos earth fund, phoenix species project, endangered lemurs

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This one quality is what separates people who build something truly extraordinary from those who build something that’s merely good (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: company funding, early-stage investment, revenue milestones

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The Tariff Refunds Are Rolling in—but Gadget Prices Aren’t Dropping (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: amazon, tariff refunds, gadget prices

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This 24-Year-Old Hedge Fund Prodigy Was Called the ‘Nostradamus of AI’— He Didn’t See a 73% Drop Coming. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: leopold aschenbrenner, hedge fund, stock market

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Controversial White House plan to overhaul US science funding faces Senate opposition (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-03 | by Garisto | tags: white house, us senate, national science foundation

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How 'Situational Awareness' Hedge Fund Dropped 67% in AI Stock Rout (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: openai, citadel, ai stocks

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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Betsy Vereckey | tags: mit, large language models, ai financial advice

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From MIT: AI financial advice is surprisingly good (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Betsy Vereckey | tags: mit, financial advice, large language models

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Why a U.S. sovereign wealth fund for AI is harder than it sounds (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: us sovereign wealth fund, ai stock, government fund

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A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai hedge-fund, openai, sk hynix

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Amazon has $600 million in tariff refunds—and some of it is headed to customers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: amazon, tariffs, trump administration

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VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: vc funding, silicon valley, sec