Discovery has already changed, even if many teams have not fully felt the consequences yet. Buyers no longer open ten tabs, skim through blog posts, and slowly form an opinion over weeks. Instead, they ask a single question to an AI system and receive a shortlist in return, usually two or three companies that feel […]

Bobby Allyn / NPR:
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow  —  There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket.  —  Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …

The Information:
Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B  —  Online retailer Quince is in talks with investors to raise a funding round that would value the company at above $10 billion after the investment …

Nikkei Asia:
China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware  —  TOKYO — China's smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever, affecting almost all brands and product categories …

Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse  —  Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech  —  Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached …