Crypto fundraising increased by almost 50% year-on-year between March 2025 and March 2026, despite the number of deals dropping 46% as VCs concentrated bets on late-stage and strategic mega-rounds. Messari’s crypto fundraising overview shared by the company’s CEO Eric Turner on Sunday shows that the average deal size increased to $34 million in the last … Read more
Upon receiving this year’s Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East, outgoing Late Show host Stephen Colbert took the opportunity with his time onstage to champion his staff and lob one final jab at CBS parent corporation Paramount. Anyone expecting scorched earth might have been the tiniest bit disappointed, but the whole … Read more
Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center startup, said it will start mining Bitcoin from space later this year when its second spacecraft is launched, positioning it to become the first company to mine Bitcoin off Earth. Starcloud “will be the first to mine Bitcoin in space,” the startup’s CEO, Philip Johnston, posted to X on … Read more
Communications student Loane Concy Clementia recently stood outside the Rabanne show at Paris Fashion Week, wearing a black bra, a white lace and satin skirt and a white fur bomber off the shoulder. She doesn’t have a ticket for the show, but she’s happily posing for photographers outside. The 21-year-old has already done the same … Read more
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When Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff decided to use the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial to introduce Search Party — an AI-powered feature that uses Ring camera footage to help find lost dogs — he expected Americans to love it. Instead, the TV spot set off a firestorm. In fact, practically since the moment … Read more
Nonprofit organization Flow Foundation and its parent company Dapper Labs on Monday filed with the Seoul Central District Court to suspend the termination of trading support for its native token FLOW on three South Korean exchanges. Layer-1 blockchain Flow suffered a “security incident” in December when an attacker exploited a vulnerability that allowed certain assets … Read more
John Oliver is looking for a new gig. During tonight’s installment of Last Week Tonight, the political comic and late-night host set aside a good chunk of his program to lobby earnestly for a “juicy” guest role on a daytime soap opera. While the main story concerned the Donald Trump administration and DOGE’s gutting of … Read more
Because of an internal reset at her brand, Sacai’s Chitose Abe sat out a Paris fashion week show this season. Come June, she’ll be back on the menswear calendar, and she’ll resume her four-shows-a-year schedule. Her absence leaves a gap in the usual lineup, but she’s not out of the picture completely. The Sacai showroom … Read more
Bitcoin’s recent parallel movement with US software stocks is more of a case of shared exposure to macro events, rather than any structural convergence, according to financial services company NYDIG. In the past week, Bitcoin (BTC) rallied alongside US software stocks, leading many to claim the cryptocurrency was a proxy for the sector, Greg Cipolaro, … Read more