Yet almost 90% of new money is chasing AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, leaving non-AI startups and smaller funds squeezed as the pipeline of initial public offerings narrows to a few blockbuster bets.
—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2026
Companies of all sizes, including giants like Apple, are scrambling to secure memory.
Some coalitions have become massive bureaucratic behemoths, with certain coalitions claiming over 700 member groups.
—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
28 June 2026
The Kospi, half the value of which is made up of just two tech behemoths (SK Hynix and Samsung), tripped another circuit breaker Friday, leading to a 20-minute trading break.
In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.
—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
8 July 2026
The 1965 book with Beard’s photos of elephants on the Serengeti alerted the world to the destruction of their habitat amid the population explosion.
—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2026
According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
Navigating the Long Tau river requires these deep-sea leviathans to turn on a dime, making for some spectacular viewing.
—
Loz Blain
May 14,
New Atlas,
14 May 2026
The biggest drag on European innovation and tech is a lack of domestic funding, not regulation, and the new rules are more likely to hurt tech leviathans whose size and network effects contribute to their addictive quality.
This clash of could-be titans proved to be too evenly matched for much action.
—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
5 July 2026
Prior to joining Nutanix, Sam held senior leadership roles at several industry titans, including Broadcom, VMware, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Illumio.
The limestone cave system dates back to the Jurassic period 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth.
—
James Rampton,
TheWeek,
9 July 2026
At least a quarter of the subjects interpreted the figures of speech literally, leading to the inference that dinosaurs walked the streets of 19th-century London.
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