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Micro dramas are booming — and one startup is betting AI can help make them more interactive.StoReel is a Beijing-based startup that distributes AI-made micro dramas in its mobile app. It’s also a platform that lets creators make series using AI characters and voices. StoReel makes most of its revenue in…
In Jeffrey Epstein’s last will and testament, he named two of his longtime associates — personal attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn — as co-executors of his $630 million estate.He didn’t give them salaries for the job.Since Epstein’s death in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, Indyke and…
Israeli startup Onit Security has raised $11 million to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities with AI agents.The Tel Aviv-based startup was founded in early 2025 to address a problem that Ofer Amitai, one of its cofounders, experienced firsthand at a previous company: a cyberattack stemming from a missed vulnerability.In late…
True Religion had to recognize some hard truths in order to turn its brand around. Loading audio narration… When Michael Buckley returned to True Religion as CEO in 2019, he inherited a company that was struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Since then, he’s helped turn things around — doubling sales…
For six years, they stalled creditors, ignored deadlines, and filed stacks of legal documents. They declined to unlock their ornate front doors for court-ordered visits by realtors, lawyers, and federal marshals. Loading audio narration… And even now, they keep fighting to reclaim their former Gilded Age Manhattan townhouse — on…
AI and the Iran war are two of the most disruptive forces affecting businesses in 2026. Bold, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that’s just emerged from stealth with $40 million in funding, is keenly familiar with both.The Tel Aviv-based startup has developed AI software to protect enterprise devices like laptops from…
Offer Yehudai doesn’t want you to fall in love with an AI bot.He wants couples to use Arya — the relationship wellness AI startup he cofounded — to spice up their in-real-life intimacy.”There is still taboo and stigma around intimacy,” Yehudai told Business Insider in an interview. Arya aims to make…
A Brazilian startup fund is betting that AI has made large headcounts and funding rounds unnecessary to compete on the global stage.Shiva, named for the Hindu god of transformation, has raised $10 million to back AI startups of one to three people — which it calls “Stars” — and arm…
Kristi Noem might not be a Hollywood star, but her department spent like the big studios.The former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was ousted from her post on Thursday, following months of controversy over her handling of immigration enforcement in Trump’s mass deportation campaign.During Noem’s appearance before Congress…
The prediction market Kalshi wants you to know that it definitely doesn’t run “death markets.”In a notice filed Monday, the company proposed standardizing the terms of all its markets that implicitly depend on a person surviving.If a person dies, according to the new rule, all bets related to them will…
