Y Combinator veterans raise $15 million to build an AI money manager that thinks like a wealthy family office

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ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran, posed on a green couch in a studio with a white backdrop and an open window.
ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran.

Autonomous Technologies Group

  • ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran raised $15 million to build an AI wealth strategist.
  • Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan led ATG's latest round.
  • ATG's app, Autonomous, aims to help users with investment strategies employed by the ultrawealthy.

Serial entrepreneurs and two-time Y Combinator grads Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran

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Marcus Lemonis ordered to pay $14 million over negative comments about participants on his reality show 'The Profit'

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Marcus Lemonis
Marcus Lemonis was ordered by an arbitrator to pay more than $14 million to a a group of business owners whose companies appeared on the CNBC reality show "The Profit."

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  • An arbitrator ordered Marcus Lemonis to pay $14.1 million after finding he violated a 2021 settlement tied to his CNBC show "The Profit."
  • The arbitration award and findings were filed in New York State
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'Burden of command': How a brutal recruiting mission broke some Marines leading the charge

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A captain standing behind marines.

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Marine recruiters have long faced some of the most challenging workplace conditions of all military recruiters, the Pentagon's own surveys show. A Business Insider investigation reveals the pressure to find enlistees hasn't been limited to rank-and-file recruiters; it has also taken a toll on higher-ups, contributing to a raft of firings and allegations of abusive work conditions.

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CES 2026: I got a first look at Tensor’s Robocar

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Picture of luxury electric vehicle, the Tensor at CES 2026.

Tensor Auto is very confident about its Robocar. It's the most succinct way I can describe how I felt after getting a look under the hood at this very luxurious electric vehicle at CES 2026, just a day before the show opened.

Here is Tensor's pitch: a personal, privately owned autonomous vehicle designed from the ground up for Level 4 driving, not retrofitted after the fact (like how Waymo uses

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Betelgeuses elusive co-star left a trail of clues for astronomers

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An artist's rendering of Siwarha's wake in Betelgeuse's atmosphere

For more than a century, Betelgeuse has looked like a star with a secret.

It swells and fades on a six-year rhythm that never quite made sense. The star, about 650 light-years away in space, is old, bloated, and unstable, but not unstable enough to explain its slow pulse. 

The answer might be simpler than expected. Betelgeuse, pronounced "Beetlejuice" just like the Tim Burton film, appears to have

I quit my job in London to move to Barcelona and start a business. I fly back for meetings twice a month — but it's worth it.

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Ethan Spibey with his dog in Barcelona
Ethan Spibey now lives in Barcelona with his husband and dog.

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  • Ethan Spibey has loved Barcelona since he studied there during university.
  • After years of often visiting the Spanish city, he quit his successful career in the UK to live there.
  • He launched his own business and regularly flies to London for meetings, but says it's worth it.

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