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New Restaurant Doma Opens in Boyana
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New Restaurant Doma Opens in Boyana

A new restaurant named Doma has announced its presence with distinctive striped billboards, offering 'food and drink' in Boyana, taking over the location of a popular previous establishment.

Summer Fashion Trends: Striped Shirts and Flowy Pants
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Summer Fashion Trends: Striped Shirts and Flowy Pants

Striped shirts are highlighted as a summer must-have, while fluid and elegant pants are replacing skinny jeans as the comfortable and fresh choice for the season. These trends reflect current shifts in summer fashion.

Cannes Film Festival Features Premieres, Awards, and Celebrity Statements
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Cannes Film Festival Features Premieres, Awards, and Celebrity Statements

The Cannes Film Festival showcased various film premieres, reviews, and award announcements, including a Golden Globes prize for 'Groundswell'. The event also featured numerous celebrity appearances, interviews, and notable statements from actors like Javier Bardem and Cate Blanchett on social and political issues.

Stripe Trend Dominates Summer MDW Sales
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Stripe Trend Dominates Summer MDW Sales

Stripes are being highlighted as the must-have print for summer outfits, making them appear cooler, richer, and more put-together. Major seasonal markdowns during Summer MDW sales are making it an ideal time to purchase striped items.

Two Dead in US Strike on Suspected Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific
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Two Dead in US Strike on Suspected Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific

A US operation in the Eastern Pacific targeted a vessel suspected of drug trafficking, resulting in the deaths of two individuals. This incident is part of ongoing US efforts against drug smugglers in the region.

VDH: Our New Ungracious Immigrants
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VDH: Our New Ungracious Immigrants

VDH: Our New Ungracious Immigrants Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The Traditional Immigrant Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others. The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoveris...

Stripe Valuation Jumps to $159 Billion
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Stripe Valuation Jumps to $159 Billion

Stripe's valuation has increased to $159 billion following its latest tender offer, indicating significant growth and investor confidence in the payment processing company.

Miami is not the next Silicon Valley. It's something much weirder.
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Miami is not the next Silicon Valley. It's something much weirder.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Tech's elite are taking their talents to South Beach — again. In January, David Sacks, the venture capitalist and crypto and AI czar, proclaimed that Miami will soon replace New York City as America's financial capital. Stripe's Patrick Collison has been marveling at the city's "boomtown" vibes. With California flirting with a one-time tax on billionaires, said billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg are buying oceanfront mansions. And on Tuesday, Palantir announced that it's moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami. Is Miami the next Silicon Valley? We've been here before. The pandemic sent waves of coastal workers to the city, turning it into a Zoomtown full of online venture capitalists like Keith Rabois and Delian Asparouhov, bitcoin bull runners, and purveyors of the finest NFTs. Billboards went up in San Francisco featuring a mock tweet from then-Miami mayor Francis Suarez: "Thinking about moving to Miami? DM me." Here's the thing: It's easy to fall for Miami when a big chunk of the workforce is stuck at home and online. Five years later, it's a lot harder to build companies there. "Miami is great three months out of the year," says one prominent venture capitalist who moved to the city during the pandemic but is now returning to an established hub. While the Floridian tax benefits are real, the investor has found that the social scene hollows out in the summer as residents leave, making it "hard to build roots or have reliable friends." More critically for the startup ecosystem, the scene lacked the "hustle" of San Francisco or New York. Silicon Valley practically runs on a conveyor belt from Stanford and Caltech to Y Combinator's Dogpatch offices. The machine turns students into founders, builders into companies, and companies into the next wave of founders. Miami, meanwhile, lacks a major university to pipe in tech talent. Instead, the investor says, the city tends to attract people who have already "made it." Miami and Fort Lauderdale-based startups raised $3 billion in 2025. Bay Area-based startups raised $177 billion. The Miami market, while busy, significantly lags behind the major hubs. Startups in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro raised about $3 billion in 2025, per PitchBook, down from $8.6 billion in 2022, when money and crypto sloshed about. The Bay Area, by contrast, still grabs 52% of the nation's venture funding, with $177 billion in capital pouring in last year. Alligators may be all around in Miami, but unicorns are hard to find. In January, Cast AI, a startup that helps companies cut cloud costs, crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the region's first homegrown unicorn in years. Before that, Adam Neumann, the ousted WeWork cofounder, debuted his Miami residential real-estate venture, Flow, at a $1 billion valuation in 2022. Even Garry Tan, the Y Combinator president and gadfly who's usually first in line to dunk on San Francisco's politics, has been blunt about where the breeding grounds are best. Tan recently said on X that the accelerator still hasn't opened offices outside the Bay Area because founders are simply more likely to build unicorns there. According to a Business Insider analysis of Crunchbase data, of the at least 97 new unicorns that investors minted in 2025, 43 of them were based in the Bay Area. But those who dismiss the city entirely miss the point. Miami isn't the next San Francisco. It's establishing itself as something else. Patrick Murphy, a former Florida congressman and entrepreneur, says that Miami's tech scene is growing, it's just being built in "reverse order." Silicon Valley, he says, emerged from an if you build it, they will come approach: Engineers built great companies first, which eventually created fortunes that cycled back into the community to fund the next generation of companies. Miami, however, has a more if you come, they will build it tact. It's attracted the "wealth achievers" first — the family offices, private equity names, and already-successful founders who emigrated for lifestyle reasons. Finance heavyweights like Citadel and Thoma Bravo arrived early. Vanguard, one of the world's largest asset managers, is eyeing an expansion in Miami as it targets more Latin American wealth. The city is now importing the machinery that follows them. Legal, accounting, and consulting firms are opening local offices to stay close to clients — and scoop up star talent that no longer needs to live near HQ. This dynamic has established Miami as a "control center" for decision-makers, Murphy argues, but not yet the "factory floor" where the actual work gets done. Murphy says that despite running a successful construction-tech startup, Togal.AI, his engineering team has been offshore from the beginning because the local talent pool simply "didn't exist" when he started in 2019. "If you go to Miami, you're not going to see dozens of engineers at a Starbucks cranking away," he says. "That's not here yet." Still, Miami's flood of wealth is creating demand for startups built on the city's local economy, especially in property tech and fintech, Murphy says. Togal.AI's annual recurring revenue has grown 1,000% over the past two years, Murphy says, and is now raising fresh venture funding in order to hire dozens of new employees this year. Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote on X. Maya Bakhai, a Fort Lauderdale resident and founder of the early-stage venture firm Spice Capital, tells me that the city will flourish alongside "net new" industries that are still taking shape and where the center of gravity isn't locked in yet. Crypto firms like MoonPay and QuickNode still treat South Florida as a home base, she notes. A new space-tech accelerator backed by the state is trying to persuade founders to stick around by pairing them with funders. Bakhai's bigger bet is that just as New York became the hub for e-commerce, Miami could become the place where creator businesses get built. Research out of the University of Hong Kong found Miami has more top influencers per capita than New York or Los Angeles. And then there's Palantir, the strongest signal flare yet that tech is taking America's Playground seriously. It's hard to know what the data giant's HQ move will mean in practice — Palantir hasn't said how many employees it plans to relocate, or whether it will offer moving packages to lure talent south. The company did not respond to an email request for comment. If Palantir does move a meaningful slice of its workforce, it would give Miami something it's been short on: a marquee tech employer that can recruit and keep technical workers on the ground year-round. On X, Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. ""Florida is the future," cheered Andreessen Horowitz investor Katherine Boyle. Others were less convinced. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote. "For the next 20 years, nothing will change, but they will always tell you 'big things are happening in Florida.'" Turning Miami into Silicon Beach is a long game, Bakhai argues. It won't be built by the billionaires buying houses to snowbird in today, she argues, but by the young strivers arriving for their first serious jobs — the entry-level analysts heading to Citadel and the junior lawyers starting at firms like Orrick. For the first time, she says, ambitious graduates can launch careers in Miami instead of treating New York or San Francisco as the default. The payoff, she says, comes years later, when they eventually spin off to start their own companies. Until then, Miami remains largely a playground for the "made it" crowd, waiting in the sun for the builders to come. Melia Russell is a reporter with Business Insider, covering the intersection of law and technology. Read the original article on Business Insider

Donald Trump's Diverse Activities and Statements
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Donald Trump's Diverse Activities and Statements

Donald Trump made various statements regarding an Iran deal, denying demands for Lebanon's inclusion and reiterating plans to destroy enriched uranium. He also faced protests in Albania over a real estate project, and his attendance at an NBA finals game caused logistical adjustments for fans.

Teams Prepare for FIFA World Cup Amid Player Excitement and Legal Challenges
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Teams Prepare for FIFA World Cup Amid Player Excitement and Legal Challenges

National teams, including the USMNT, Germany, and South Korea, are making final preparations and expressing excitement for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. The tournament also faces a lawsuit regarding a proposed ban on Iran's pre-revolution flag.

Andy Burnham's Potential Bid for UK Prime Minister
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Andy Burnham's Potential Bid for UK Prime Minister

Andy Burnham, often dubbed the 'King of the North,' is reportedly preparing a bid to become the next UK Prime Minister, with allies suggesting he will push for the role before the Labour conference. His potential return to Parliament via a by-election in Makerfield is seen as a crucial step in his leadership ambitions.

Meta Hires Former Google, Stripe Executives Amid AI Pivot
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Meta Hires Former Google, Stripe Executives Amid AI Pivot

Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality Metaverse vision is reportedly winding down, with Meta shifting its focus to AI projects and hiring former Google and Stripe executives behind AI startup Dreamer to bolster its efforts. Analysts predict this strategic pivot will positively impact Meta's stock in the long term.

Hysteria Over Zoégas Coffee Can in Sweden
Businesssvenska-dagbladet3mo ago

Hysteria Over Zoégas Coffee Can in Sweden

A specific blue and white striped coffee can from Zoégas has caused widespread hysteria in Swedish stores, with reports of customers rushing shelves, crying, screaming, and making threats.

OpenAI's OpenClaw hire sparks praise, memes, and rivalry chatter
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OpenAI's OpenClaw hire sparks praise, memes, and rivalry chatter

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw, Peter Steinberger. The news made waves in the AI community. Some AI leaders took to X to celebrate the news, and others expressed concern. OpenAI announced on Sunday it had hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw. Within hours, the news sent ripples across the AI community, drawing praise from some executives, jabs from rivals, and a flood of memes from engineers watching the talent wars unfold. Steinberger wrote in a blog post shared on X Sunday that he was "joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman amplified the news, writing that "the future is going to be extremely multi-agent." Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our… — Sam Altman (@sama) February 15, 2026 In response to the news, several OpenAI leaders welcomed Steinberger. Thibault Sottiaux, an engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex team, wrote that "@steipete is proof you can just build things." @steipete is proof you can just build things — Tibo (@thsottiaux) February 15, 2026 Another Codex engineer posted that one of the "neat" parts of OpenAI's culture is how many former founders work there. One thing @steipete and I talked about over lunch last week was how many former founders are at OpenAI. It’s a really neat part of the culture. — Andrew Ambrosino (@ajambrosino) February 16, 2026 Steinberger told Lex Friedman in a podcast last week that both Mark Zuckerberg and Altman had made him offers. OpenClaw and its agent-only social media network Moltbook became wildly popular earlier this year as developers and AI enthusiasts shared clips of autonomous AI agents posting, replying, and interacting online. The open-source project, which demonstrates how networks of AI agents can coordinate to perform tasks across apps, also rapidly gained traction on GitHub. After Steinberger's announcement on Sunday, some of the people who worked on OpenClaw commented on the news. "I know the decision was not an easy one, and I saw firsthand the pressure Peter was under, given that he understands how fundamental this could be for the AI timeline," Jamieson O'Reilly, an OpenClaw advisor, wrote on X in a post congratulating Steinberger. One thing has become very clear to me working together with @steipete on @openclaw. While lots of people spectate from the sidelines, sharing their opinions, concerns and even hot takes at times, the dude is there, vigilantly on the front-lines pushing AI forward for every one… https://t.co/fe5OEKgevm — Jamieson O'Reilly (@theonejvo) February 16, 2026 Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, said it was a sign "2026 was the year of the agents." If anyone was wondering if 2026 was the year of agents, OpenAI is bringing on the maker of Openclaw. This space is about to get very real. https://t.co/ocqX4kE9PT — Aaron Levie (@levie) February 15, 2026 Not everyone in the tech space was as enthusiastic about the news. XAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin asked users on X: "What's the best open alternative to OpenClaw right now? Doesn't make sense to put all your data into it if it's owned by OpenAI." PayPal mafia member Jason Calacanis expressed similar concerns. 😔 what are the chances the open source project survives / thrives after this? https://t.co/4sUZkKWkGh — @jason (@Jason) February 15, 2026 Steinberger and OpenAI have said that OpenClaw will remain an open-source project with OpenAI's support. Other experts in the space pointed out that OpenAI's win could be a loss for Anthropic, especially after Steinberger wrote on X that Anthropic sent "love letters from legal." "Another interesting detail is Anthropic's visible disdain for anything open source: their only contribution to this was legal threats," George Orosz, a tech industry analyst and author of the tech newsletter The Pragmatic Engineer, wrote on X. Kris Puckett, a designer at Stripe, expressed a similar sentiment Instead of @AnthropicAI getting Claudebot, they rushed legal to send a C&D and lost out on not only brilliant talent but community drive. Truly would love to know the decision making process. — Kris Puckett (@krispuckett) February 16, 2026 Raphael Schaad, a visiting partner at Y Combinator, said, "I bet this causes lots of VC tears." I bet this causes lots of VC tears and angry OSS folks. But think about this: - Peter showed the future and lots of awesome startups are starting to bloom from this. Invest in those! - Peter created one of the most exciting OSS projects in years. The community is vibrant and… https://t.co/RFWwfXU9Lz — Raphael Schaad (@raphaelschaad) February 15, 2026 And finally, some X power users did what they do best: posted memes about the news. Was expecting this one in replies pic.twitter.com/bfcZt3Ugg6 — Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) February 15, 2026 Read the original article on Business Insider

Netanyahu Directs IDF to Expand Control Over 70% of Gaza
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Netanyahu Directs IDF to Expand Control Over 70% of Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the IDF to increase its control over 70% of the Gaza Strip. This directive comes amidst ongoing conflict and discussions about the future of the region.

Katie Holmes Showcases Timeless Appeal of Marinière Fashion
Cultureiefimerida1mo ago

Katie Holmes Showcases Timeless Appeal of Marinière Fashion

Katie Holmes was seen in New York wearing a striking yet simple outfit, demonstrating why the marinière (striped shirt) remains a timeless fashion staple. Her appearance highlighted the iconic piece's ability to elevate an entire look without excess.

Stripe Considers Acquiring PayPal
Businessirish-independent3mo ago

Stripe Considers Acquiring PayPal

Patrick and John Collison’s payment processing firm Stripe is reportedly considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc.

How airlines turn their planes into flying billboards: from painted Pokémon to a mural of 100,000 faces
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How airlines turn their planes into flying billboards: from painted Pokémon to a mural of 100,000 faces

Turkish Airlines put 100,000 faces on an Airbus A350 to celebrate its 500th aircraft. Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines recently put 100,000 faces on a new Airbus using hundreds of pounds of stickers. Airlines use aircraft liveries as a flying billboard. The job can cost six figures, with painted liveries being heavier and more expensive. From tail stripes to full-body wraps, airlines have long turned their planes into flying billboards to showcase their brand, culture, and identity in the ...

Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan
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Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA — Three striped hyenas and two wild dogs have arrived at Karagandy Zoo. All the animals are young and are still acclimating to the new environment, Kazinform reported on Feb. 18. Striped hyenas have been listed in the IUCN Red List since 2008. They are the only hyena species found outside Africa.  Two female… The post Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan appeared first on The Astana Times.