Entrepreneurs

Ryan Breslow rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank. Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles — and a brutal valuation crash that wiped out much of his fortune.

In an interview, founders Dario and Daniela Amodei told Forbes that Anthropic’s new enterprise-focused model, released Monday, outperforms rivals GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra.

Bridgit Mendler, an actress and singer best known for her roles in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Lemonade Mouth,” is adding a CEO title to her resume with her satellite data startup Northwood Space.

Elon Musk took aim at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman again Friday over the company’s decision to abandon its original nonprofit model and make money, stoking a longstanding feud with his fellow OpenAI founder as the firm unveiled a powerful new text-to-video AI tool, Sora.

AI startup Marqo completed the Series A round just six months after raising an $8.1 million seed round. The funds will go toward establishing a larger footprint in San Francisco where Marqo will now be headquartered.

Fintech startups Coalition and At-Bay, founded by security and spy-agency veterans, are using their tech smarts to transform the fast-growing business of protecting companies against hackers.

Kristo Käärmann launched Wise (formerly TransferWise) back in 2011 with the aim of helping users move cash around the world – without the marked-up fees charged by banks. Since then, the company has gone on to process more than $48 billion in cross-border payments and save customers more than $2.9 billion

The world’s third-richest person sold some of his Amazon stock for the first time in more than two years.

After remaining invite-only since its launch in 2023, Jack Dorsey’s social media platform, Bluesky, is open to the public.

With $1 trillion in assets and unrivaled returns, the private equity giant has conquered Wall Street, but its 76-year old founder, Steve Schwarzman, isn’t finished. He wants total domination overseas as well— and the firm’s crown prince, Jonathan Gray, has built an ingenious weapon targeting vast amounts of global wealth.