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Palmer Luckey’s defense-tech company is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round would come less than a year after the company’s Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuation. Lux Capital and Founders Fund are also expected to participate. A previous report from Bloomberg said the new round could bring as much as $8 billion of capital into the company, which closed its previous funding round last summer. The round comes at an…

Australia could unlock 24 billion Australian dollars ($17 billion) annually from advances in tokenized markets and digital assets, but only if lawmakers start moving forward with regulation, according to a new report from a local fintech research group.In a report titled “Unlocking Australia’s $24b Digital Finance Opportunity,” which was published on Monday, the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) said regulatory uncertainty, coordination challenges and limited pathways for pilot projects to grow are the biggest constraints facing the industry. One way to address the shortcomings would be to establish a sandbox for testing new technology, such as tokenized financial market use…

Location : The A3 southbound between the junctions with the A283 Milford north and the A333 . Reason : Road traffic collision. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 03:15 and 03:30 on 4 March 2026. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 03:15 and 03:30 on 4 March 2026. Lanes Closed : All lanes are closed. Previous Reason : Following an earlier accident. Source link

Some TikTok users in the U.S. are having trouble using the app, which the company attributes to an issue with an Oracle data center. “Creators may temporarily experience lags in posting content while Oracle works to resolve the issue,” TikTok said on X. According to user-generated reports on Downdetector, the issue has been ongoing since before 9 a.m. ET. Oracle’s own post on X indicates the outage started around then as well. Oracle is part of an investor group that owns 80% of the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, which was created to comply with a national security law that required…

Temperatures reached 15 degrees in Brighton today with sunshine and blue skies providing a welcome change after weeks of relentless rain and grey skies. The beach was dotted with sunbathers as people relaxed, many in T-shirts and shorts, enjoying the warmth while others enjoyed an al fresco drink. After what has felt like an unrelenting spell of wet weather, the sight of clear blue skies over Brighton brought a collective lift in mood. For a few blissful hours, umbrellas were swapped for sun hats — and the city looked every bit ready for summer. Source link [Featured] [Just In]

For a long time, the conventional approach to generating a unicorn, a startup valued at over $1 billion, has been through venture capitalists and certain angel investors. However, with the emergence of decentralised systems and platforms like IDO and crypto launchpads, specific marketplaces, token presales and more, the method to raise funds, establish communities and scale of operation, has changed for founders. Many of the forthcoming startups are diverting their focus to funding methods, that decentralise the funding process and minimise the over dependence on centralised systems.   What Does ‘Decentralised Platform’ Mean?   When a platform is termed decentralised,…

Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models. Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba’s Qwen team, said in a post on X on Tuesday that he was “stepping down” from the project, without elaborating. He joined Alibaba in July 2019 and became part of the Qwen team in April 2023, according to his LinkedIn profile. The abrupt departure, which drew strong reactions from colleagues and industry partners, comes as global competition among AI developers intensifies and companies…

As competition among AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to novel valuation mechanisms to manufacture a perception of market dominance. Until recently, the most sought-after companies raised multiple rounds of funding in quick succession at escalating valuations. However, because constant fundraising distracts founders from building their products, lead VCs have devised a new pricing structure that effectively consolidates what would have been two separate funding cycles into one. Recent rounds employing this scheme include Aaru’s Series A. The synthetic-customer research startup raised a round led by Redpoint, which invested a large portion of its check at a…

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have discovered a molecular “switch” that determines whether pancreatic cancer cells respond to chemotherapy or resist it. The finding points to a way to potentially shift some of the most treatment resistant tumors into a state where existing drugs can work more effectively. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, explains how this switch operates at a molecular level. The results suggest that pairing targeted therapies with standard chemotherapy may improve outcomes for patients whose tumors no longer respond to treatment. Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Difficult to Treat Pancreatic cancer is one…

Wednesday 04 March 2026 12:01 am  |  Updated:  Tuesday 03 March 2026 5:55 pm The stock exchange division offers property investment ‘for mums and dad’s A Yorkshire retail centre will become the first real estate asset to float on Aquis, London’s challenger stock exchange, with the firm to issue more than £25m in shares, City AM can reveal.  Scotch Corner Designer Village will launch its IPO in April, becoming the first listing as part of Aram, Aquis’ real estate division.The Aquis Real Asset Market (Aram) is a segment of the challenger exchange launched to democratise retail investments which are usually only accessible…