July 5, 1687: Newton’s Principia is published

Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687.  Newton had developed the foundational ideas for the work as early as 1666, when an outbreak of plague shut down Cambridge University, where he was a student, and drove him to the countryside. There he spent two […]

PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded  —  Artificial intelligence is eating venture capital.  Or at least its dollars. … – That percentage jumps […]