Iain Martin
@iainmartin.bsky.social
Forbes Senior Editor writing about AI, tech and venture capital
"People don't just show up - they actually stick around."
And that's with most of the content being from Yahoo News, or syndicated feeds!
And that's with most of the content being from Yahoo News, or syndicated feeds!
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"People don't just show up - they actually stick around."
And that's with most of the content being from Yahoo News, or syndicated feeds!
And that's with most of the content being from Yahoo News, or syndicated feeds!
AOL dot com, one of the original big "internet portals", still draws more traffic every month than: Etsy, Target, and Home Depot, Temu, NY Post or the BBC.... sherwood.news/business/mil...
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AOL dot com, one of the original big "internet portals", still draws more traffic every month than: Etsy, Target, and Home Depot, Temu, NY Post or the BBC.... sherwood.news/business/mil...
"Lime has just published its annual financial return for the UK — and it shows how rental e-bikes are now huge business, as the Uber-backed tech company tries to grow as fast as possible ahead of a planned listing on the stock market."
October 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"Lime has just published its annual financial return for the UK — and it shows how rental e-bikes are now huge business, as the Uber-backed tech company tries to grow as fast as possible ahead of a planned listing on the stock market."
"President Trump added $3 billion to his wealth over the last year, leveraging the presidency for profit"
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September 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"President Trump added $3 billion to his wealth over the last year, leveraging the presidency for profit"
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Art of the [bad] deal?
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September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Art of the [bad] deal?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Rowan's letter to the judge
September 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Rowan's letter to the judge
"U.S. Navy sailor Wei was approached in February 2022 via social media by someone who claimed to be a naval enthusiast. The individual was in reality a Chinese intelligence officer" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-na...
August 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"U.S. Navy sailor Wei was approached in February 2022 via social media by someone who claimed to be a naval enthusiast. The individual was in reality a Chinese intelligence officer" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-na...
After OpenAI canned its share feature, Musk took a victory lap. Grok’s X account claimed at the time that it had no such sharing feature, and Musk tweeted in response, “Grok ftw” [for the win].
August 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
After OpenAI canned its share feature, Musk took a victory lap. Grok’s X account claimed at the time that it had no such sharing feature, and Musk tweeted in response, “Grok ftw” [for the win].
"The DOJ adds that it discovered a slew of damning Internet searches that corresponded with various financial shenanigans, including "faking an audit"...and Frank founder Charlie Javice" www.axios.com/newsletters/...
July 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"The DOJ adds that it discovered a slew of damning Internet searches that corresponded with various financial shenanigans, including "faking an audit"...and Frank founder Charlie Javice" www.axios.com/newsletters/...
In the last generation of startups it took years for even the best companies to hit $100 million of revenue.
Sweden's new AI unicorn Lovable got there in just eight months...
Here's the inside story of how this Stockholm-based team outpaced Wiz, and Deel
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Sweden's new AI unicorn Lovable got there in just eight months...
Here's the inside story of how this Stockholm-based team outpaced Wiz, and Deel
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
July 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In the last generation of startups it took years for even the best companies to hit $100 million of revenue.
Sweden's new AI unicorn Lovable got there in just eight months...
Here's the inside story of how this Stockholm-based team outpaced Wiz, and Deel
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
Sweden's new AI unicorn Lovable got there in just eight months...
Here's the inside story of how this Stockholm-based team outpaced Wiz, and Deel
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
Index Ventures could net $1.75 billion from the $16 billion initial public offering of design startup Figma www.venturecapitaljournal.com/index-greylo...
July 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Index Ventures could net $1.75 billion from the $16 billion initial public offering of design startup Figma www.venturecapitaljournal.com/index-greylo...
As Bloomberg notes the seating plan for this lunch in Riyadh to mark Trump's Saudi state visit could be tricky...https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-05-13/trump-s-visit-to-saudi-arabia-mbs-2025?cursorId=682308D868B40000
May 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As Bloomberg notes the seating plan for this lunch in Riyadh to mark Trump's Saudi state visit could be tricky...https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-05-13/trump-s-visit-to-saudi-arabia-mbs-2025?cursorId=682308D868B40000
Currently the only product on Humain's website is a locally produced chatbot which seems well-informed about its current boss.
May 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Currently the only product on Humain's website is a locally produced chatbot which seems well-informed about its current boss.
There’s a surprising name lurking in the rankings of startups that have raised the most funding this year. Infinite Reality.
This obscure metaverse startup claims to have raised $3 billion on a $15 billion valuation. Not all is as it seems...
This obscure metaverse startup claims to have raised $3 billion on a $15 billion valuation. Not all is as it seems...
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There’s a surprising name lurking in the rankings of startups that have raised the most funding this year. Infinite Reality.
This obscure metaverse startup claims to have raised $3 billion on a $15 billion valuation. Not all is as it seems...
This obscure metaverse startup claims to have raised $3 billion on a $15 billion valuation. Not all is as it seems...
XTX already has one of the largest private GPU clusters in Europe (caveat - that are known about)
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
XTX already has one of the largest private GPU clusters in Europe (caveat - that are known about)
"For the avoidance of doubt...nobody is getting a 'gold star' here,” ruled the judge in a long-running legal battle between Bolt founder (one-time billionaire) Ryan Breslow and his investors. The ruling will cost Bolt millions but leaves his plan to raise $450 million on ice
January 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"For the avoidance of doubt...nobody is getting a 'gold star' here,” ruled the judge in a long-running legal battle between Bolt founder (one-time billionaire) Ryan Breslow and his investors. The ruling will cost Bolt millions but leaves his plan to raise $450 million on ice
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product,” said Bruce Daisley, former head of Twitter’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
January 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product,” said Bruce Daisley, former head of Twitter’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
A brutal chart for the UK
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January 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A brutal chart for the UK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The tick tock on this decision would be funny if it weren't so serious.
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January 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The tick tock on this decision would be funny if it weren't so serious.
www.wsj.com/tech/social-...
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Let's just say some drone manufactures on Alibaba and other Chinese wholesale websites are not being coy about the intended use case for their devices...Spot the RPG
January 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Let's just say some drone manufactures on Alibaba and other Chinese wholesale websites are not being coy about the intended use case for their devices...Spot the RPG
What is even more worrying is that this AI-generated content is bleeding over into the media. Here's an Instagram post from Birmingham Updates promoting the "ghost" fireworks.
January 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
What is even more worrying is that this AI-generated content is bleeding over into the media. Here's an Instagram post from Birmingham Updates promoting the "ghost" fireworks.
In Birmingham, people attended the event even after the police and city council put out warnings there was no fireworks display.
The initial media coverage blamed "social media scammers" for the hoax... but the claim about the ghost event originally stems from a set of blogs
The initial media coverage blamed "social media scammers" for the hoax... but the claim about the ghost event originally stems from a set of blogs
January 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In Birmingham, people attended the event even after the police and city council put out warnings there was no fireworks display.
The initial media coverage blamed "social media scammers" for the hoax... but the claim about the ghost event originally stems from a set of blogs
The initial media coverage blamed "social media scammers" for the hoax... but the claim about the ghost event originally stems from a set of blogs
"Like LLMs, they [multimodal generative AI models] need as much data as possible, and the best source for that has become YouTube. “It gives a huge concentration of power over a lot of the most important data on the web to one company,” says Longpre." www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
December 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
"Like LLMs, they [multimodal generative AI models] need as much data as possible, and the best source for that has become YouTube. “It gives a huge concentration of power over a lot of the most important data on the web to one company,” says Longpre." www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
Left unmentioned in Masa Son's $100 billion pledge to Trump to invest in American startups...who will pick up the tab
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December 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Left unmentioned in Masa Son's $100 billion pledge to Trump to invest in American startups...who will pick up the tab
www.wsj.com/finance/soft...
www.wsj.com/finance/soft...
The list of lawsuits facing the new management team at British AI startup Stability
December 18, 2024 at 10:11 AM
The list of lawsuits facing the new management team at British AI startup Stability