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A Hattiesburg native, Millsaps College graduate and recent Columbia Business School MBA, Thomas could have remained in New York, pursued opportunities with established companies or joined the growing list of young professionals building careers outside Mississippi. Instead, he chose to come home.

A new survey by Israeli recruiting firm GotFriends, seen by Globes, reports that while many tech companies continue to reduce employees and slow hiring, as part of streamlining adjustments for AI adoption, defense-tech startups are aggressively expanding their workforce. The number of new jobs in the defense-tech industry increased 20% in 2026 compared with the…

A new report from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley’s VC-backed founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding from investors including First Round Capital, 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, Slow Capital, Kearny Jackson, and Ariel Alternatives CEO Mellody Hobson.

European technology startups raised €44.1 billion (approximately $50.6 billion USD) in the first half of 2026 — a 27% rebound from the prior year — but the number of companies actually receiving investment fell to its lowest point in six years, according to the Tech.eu H1 2026 European Tech Ecosystem Report published today. Beneath the…

Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy autonomous software across their operations.

ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face

Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: She has joined the co-founding team at Hint, an app that leverages AI technology to manage the tasks surrounding home maintenance and management. With the Hint app, which launches today, homeowners can tackle challenges around maintenance schedules/tasks and energy management,…

KDDI and Google AI Futures Fund announced an agreement to launch the “AI Startup Support Program by KDDI & Google AI Futures Fund,” a joint initiative through which each will invest in promising Japanese startups and accelerate their global expansion. Applications are now open.

Zach Yadegari co-founded Cal AI, a calorie-counting app sold to MyFitnessPal for millions of dollars