Oxford-Vela researchers reveal AI models including GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 outperform human venture capitalists by six times in predicting startup success, analyzing 9,000 founder profiles and matching top-tier VC firm accuracy, potentially revolutionizing deal-sourcing and making startup investing more meritocratic.
MQL5 developers receive a comprehensive preprocessing pipeline system featuring standardization, scaling, and encoding tools that mirror Python's scikit-learn functionality, addressing critical gaps in machine learning data preparation for financial trading applications.
Google launches an AI-powered payments protocol that supports stablecoins, partnering with major companies like Coinbase, Salesforce, and American Express to enable secure transactions between AI agents.
Google introduces the Agent Payments Protocol, an open framework enabling secure agent-led transactions across platforms, collaborating with industry giants like Adyen, American Express, Mastercard, PayPal, and Salesforce to shape the future of agentic payments.
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet business soars, generating $15.5 billion in revenue this year, rivaling NASA's funding through public and private contracts worth $38 billion, while legally minimizing taxes.
C3.ai CEO Thomas M. Siebel steps down amid legal scrutiny and disappointing financial results, with the company missing revenue targets, withdrawing guidance, and its stock plunging 29% over the past year as it faces competitive pressures and allegations of misleading investors.
Nvidia retreats from the cloud battle, while OpenAI secures a massive $50 billion windfall by renegotiating revenue sharing terms with Microsoft and partners, signaling a major shift in the AI landscape.
OpenAI restructures as a for-profit company, securing billion-dollar partnerships with Microsoft, granting its non-profit parent an equity stake exceeding $100 billion, and inking a $300 billion cloud deal with Oracle to build new data centers.
AI-powered consumer products experience meteoric hypergrowth, reaching millions of users and $100M ARR within 2 years, driven by usage-based pricing, consumer expensing at work, sophisticated pricing tiers, consumer-to-enterprise bridges, and early enterprise sales investments.
F5 acquires CalypsoAI for $180 million, strengthening its AI security offerings with CalypsoAI's real-time threat defense and data security products for AI workloads; the cash-financed deal is expected to close this month.