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Yahoo News covered Abu Dhabi's broader healthcare investment push during the Future Health Summit, naming Whoop alongside Eli Lilly and Oura as companies drawn into Mubadala-linked deals.

Italian outlet M Social Magazine covers comments from Bill Gross — identified as founder/CEO of Idealab and ProRata — arguing AI could spawn a million new businesses and 100 million jobs, tied to a new free Idealab project that used an AI model to generate over a million business ideas. The original reporting on this appears to trace back to Fortune's CEO Daily column by Diane Brady.

IndUS Business Journal named Farsight AI co-founders Samir Dutta and Kunal Tangri to its 2026 '40 Under 40' list recognizing Indian-origin entrepreneurs, executives, and investors shaping American business, confirming both are based in New York, NY.

Newcomer reported that Mercor co-founder and CEO Brendan Foody will join the main-stage speaker lineup at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on Nov. 12 in San Francisco, alongside figures such as Igor Babuschkin, Nikesh Arora, and Ali Ghodsi.

A Fast Company feature (republished in Chinese by Huxiu) profiles the rise of expert AI-training gig work, featuring extensive commentary from Mercor CEO Brendan Foody on the company's $10B valuation, its network of over 100,000 experts, and his view that automation will create more jobs, not fewer.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody personally invested as an angel in Daytona's $60M Series B round (valuing the AI-agent cloud startup at $1B), alongside fellow tech founders Patrick Collison (Stripe), Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Eric Yuan (Zoom), Olivier Pomel (Datadog) and Adam D'Angelo (Quora).