After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother’s voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it’s now one of the companies competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.
Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”
SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time
Though not without some drama along the way.
Hero for Hope: Chris Womack
For more than 35 years, Chris Womack has served in the U.S. energy sector, becoming a visionary leader – meeting surging energy demands, prioritizing reliability for customers, and championing groundbreaking technologies. Outside of the U.S. energy sector, Chris maintains that unwavering advocacy and leadership for community initiatives driving progress in Atlanta. U.S. Advocate, Atlanta Hero […]
BlackRock Model Portfolios Rebalance: Why Active Core Now Has Momentum
The BlackRock Model Portfolio Solutions team made significant allocation shifts during the week ended September 24, 2026. The team recently managed over $300 billion and often causes shockwaves in the ETF industry. Last week’s activity drove notable net outflows from the iShares Innovation and Tech Active ETF (BAI), the iShares Defense Industrials Active ETF (IDEF), […]
New Industry Survey Reinforces Nuclear’s Growth Outlook
The owners and operators of commercial reactors in the U.S. are planning for a larger and longer-lasting fleet. A recent survey of utility companies from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) highlights rising interest in new reactors and expectations for operating lives beyond 80 years. The survey’s results point to opportunities across utilities and the companies […]
Costco Earnings Ignite Case for Consumer Staples
Costco’s fiscal year 2026 has officially concluded, and the retailing giant certainly closed out on a high note. Key Takeaways: Costco recently released its Q4 2026 and fiscal year 2026 operating results, which showcased compelling sales growth and outpaced analyst expectations. This performance may reinforce confidence in the consumer staples sector, which has seen dwindling […]
The Private-Market Liquidity Gap Advisors Can Close
Institutional investors are more eager than ever to increase private market exposure, but a wall of liquidity concerns is keeping many from moving as fast as they’d like, according to Morningstar’s fifth annual Asset Owner Perspectives Survey. Key Takeaways: Europe’s private market target of 25% of assets leads all regions, ahead of APAC and North […]
This Semiconductor Stock Is a Bargain; Seize It With This ETF
In broad terms, the semiconductor industry usually isn’t top of mind for value investors, but there are occasions when individual names in the group look like bargains. Some experts argue that Broadcom (AVGO) currently fits that bill. One of the dominant purveyors of artificial intelligence (AI) chips, Broadcom closed just over $350 on Thursday, September […]
Rethinking Equal Weight: How RAFI Offers an Alternative
As equity market concentration hits historic levels, investors are actively seeking alternative index weighting strategies to mitigate idiosyncratic risk. For decades, the default option to escape the confines of market-capitalization concentration was to seek refuge in equal-weight strategies. By assigning a fixed, uniform weight to every index constituent, an equal-weight strategy decouples a company’s portfolio […]
Who Are You Calling Passive? Many Index ETFs Dynamically Rebalanced in September
There is a myth that index-based ETFs are all static buy-and-hold products that passively track a benchmark. Many people think of indexing through the lens of market-cap strategies like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO). For VOO, holdings simply adjust based on daily price moves. However, as VettaFi demonstrated last week, this is not the case. […]
