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FOUNDERS Mira Murati Targets $40 Billion Valuation as Thinking Machines Raises the Stakes in the AI Model Race
Exclusive Analysis | September 13, 2026 The former OpenAI CTO’s young AI company is discussing a multibillion-dollar financing at a valuation of at least $40 billion. The number is extraordinary—but…
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BRICS Builds a New Money Highway: Is the Dollar-First World Entering Its Final Era?
A UPI-style cross-border payment architecture could quietly reshape global trade, reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar and accelerate the transition from a Western-led financial…
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Mira Murati Targets $40 Billion Valuation as Thinking Machines Raises the Stakes in the AI Model Race
Exclusive Analysis | September 13, 2026 The former OpenAI CTO’s young AI company is discussing a multibillion-dollar financing at a valuation of at least…
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Nvidia Eyes $10B Stake in Anthropic: The AI Chip Giant’s Biggest Bet May Be on Its Own Customer
The reported anchor investment could put Nvidia at the center of what may become the largest IPO in history—and reveal how tightly capital, computing…
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OpenAI Rules Out 2026 IPO as Altman Puts AI Safety Ahead of Wall Street
The ChatGPT maker had already taken the first formal step toward what could become a $1 trillion public listing. Now Sam Altman says 2026…
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California Diesel Prices Reach $9.999 as Global Fuel Supply Crisis Intensifies
TFM EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS Diesel has reached a price some American fuel pumps were never designed to display. GasBuddy data showed five California stations listing…
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SBI-Led Lenders Said to Back Vodafone Idea With $3.5 Billion Debt as India’s Telecom Turnaround Enters a Critical Phase
TFM EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS An SBI-led lender group is reportedly preparing about $3.5 billion in debt financing for Vodafone Idea, potentially removing one of the…
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Nasdaq Invests $100 Million in Kraken Parent Payward at Reported $21 Billion Valuation as Tokenized Equities Race Accelerates
TFM EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS Nasdaq is putting $100 million directly behind Payward, the parent company of Kraken, as their tokenized-equities partnership moves from technical collaboration…
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LAT Aerospace: How Deepinder Goyal and Surobhi Das Are Reimagining Regional Aviation in India
India has become one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, yet millions of people living in Tier-II and Tier-III cities still struggle with limited…
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FOUNDERSNvidia’s $12.93 Billion Hugging Face Deal Is Becoming a Venture Capital Case Study in Betting on Founders, Not First Ideas
TFM EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS Hugging Face began as an artificial-intelligence chatbot designed largely for teenagers. A decade later, Nvidia has agreed to acquire the company…
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MARKETSECB Raises Rates Again as Iran War Turns Europe’s Energy Shock Into a Monetary-Policy Test
TFM EXCLUSIVE The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the second time this year, lifting its deposit rate to 2.50% as the war…
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TECHNOLOGYChina’s 8.64-Second Robot Beat Bolt’s Time. The Harder Race Is Becoming a Worker
TFM EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS China’s TianGong Ultra completed 100 metres in 8.64 seconds—0.94 seconds quicker than Usain Bolt’s human world record. But The Founders’ analysis…
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