Parag Agrawal’s Parallel wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work The former Twitter CEO’s AI startup is launching Index, a platform to estimate how much content owners contribute to AI agent tasks. Fortune · May 19
A Waymo for Freight Trains? This Start-Up CEO Is Working On It After 20 years as an aerospace engineer, including 13 years at SpaceX, Matt Soule sought a new transportation challenge he could channel into a startup. He chose electric battery autonomous freight trains. Benzinga · Nov 11, 2025
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Raises $30M For Parallel Web Systems To Challenge OpenAI GPT-5 With Deep Research API Parag Agrawal, the former Twitter CEO ousted after Elon Musk's 2022 takeover, has reemerged in Silicon Valley with Parallel Web Systems, a startup promising to push artificial intelligence beyond current limits. Benzinga · Aug 25, 2025
How I turned prisoners’ misery into reading pleasure: the brilliant story of Bang Up Books When I heard Covid was keeping inmates in cells, I drove a car load of donated books to Pentonville. It became a project that now delivers thousands of books to British jails The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023
Under the Waves review: "An emotionally resonant and thematically intriguing tale" Under the Waves review: "An emotionally resonant and thematically intriguing tale" GamesRadar · Aug 29, 2023
How Under the Waves is bringing a touching personal story to life with an environmental message Interview | Under the Waves devs chat to us about their narrative adventure inspired by oil pollution GamesRadar · Aug 28, 2023
Parallel first review: I tried Pasture's new small plates restaurant and it was well worth the money Parallel is the small plates-serving sister restaurant of steak house Pasture and while being different in style, it claims to still host the same big, bold flavours. But did it live up to the hype? Wales Online · Mar 8, 2023
Pasture announces opening date for small plates restaurant and speakeasy bar Parallel is run by the same team behind popular steak restaurant Pasture Wales Online · Mar 2, 2023
Billionaire Beau Wrigley Faces Another Cannabis Lawsuit, This Time Worth $80M Billionaire William “Beau” Wrigley Jr, heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune, is in a court battle over a failed deal with vertically-integrated marijuana company Parallel to buy six Chicago cannabis companies. Benzinga · Jul 1, 2022
Cannabis Dispensary Roundup: Cookies' CBD Products Now Available In Austria, Parallel & Texas Original Each Open New Stores Parallel To Open Another Surterra Wellness Store In Florida Parallel is opening a second Surterra Wellness medical marijuana dispensary in Orlando. Benzinga · Jun 22, 2022
Black CannaBusiness And Parallel CEO Intensive Program Moving To Chicago Black CannaBusiness (BCB) and Parallel are collaborating on a national education series aimed at CEOs of color in the cannabis industry. The Black Cannabusiness CEO Intensive Program is a free, six-week, executive training program for cannabis business owners, featuring both virtual and in-person workshops and Benzinga · Jun 22, 2022
Parallel Expands In Florida, Opens New Surterra Wellness Medical Cannabis Dispensary In Miami Parallel is opening of a new Surterra Wellness medical marijuana dispensary in Miami, Florida, becoming the third Surterra location in the Magic City. Benzinga · Jun 9, 2022
Black CannaBusiness Magazine Partners With Parallel On National Education Series, Here Are The Details Black CannaBusiness Magazine and Parallel, a multi-state cannabis operator are collaborating on a national six-week education series aimed at CEOs of color currently in the cannabis industry. Benzinga · Apr 21, 2022
Cannabis Dispensary Roundup: Parallel, Trulieve, Good Day Farm, Dr. Greenthumb's, Marley Natural Cannabis Parallel will soon open a new Surterra Wellness medical marijuana dispensary in Clermont, Florida. Located at 1495 State Road 50 within a bustling shopping center neighbored by a variety of retail and dining options, the new store will kick off cannabis sales on Thursday, April 14. Benzinga · Apr 11, 2022
Benzinga · Apr 11, 2022 Parallel Opens Surterra Wellness, Medical Marijuana Dispensary In Clermont, Florida Parallel opened a new Surterra Wellness medical marijuana dispensary in Clermont, Florida. The grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting is planned for April 14, 2022.
Benzinga · Mar 31, 2022 Parallel Cannabis' Lawsuit Exposes ETF's iShares, YOLO Early in March, Parallel Cannabis, a vertically-integrated cannabis company that operates in several states, including Florida, Texas, Massachusetts, Nevada and Pennsylvania, was sued by investors of its subsidiary Surterra Wellness. Investors suggest management indebted the firm intentionally to exit with a profit.
Benzinga · Mar 31, 2022 Parallel Opens Surterra Wellness, Medical Marijuana Dispensary In Sebring, Florida Parallel opened a new Surterra Wellness medical marijuana dispensary in Sebring, Florida. Located at 1300 US 27 N, Suite 4, a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting is planned for Thursday, April 7, 2022.
Benzinga · Mar 23, 2022 Cannabis Dispensary Roundup: Element 7, Halo Collective, Cresco, Budega, Parallel, Great Barrington, FIKA Element 7 Launches Its First Central Valley Cannabis Dispensary In Firebaugh Element 7 opened its newest retail cannabis concept store in the heart of California's Central Valley last weekend.
Benzinga · Mar 8, 2022 Parallel's Goodblend Texas Debuts Its Medical Marijuana Chocolate Bar For TCUP Patients Parallel’s retail brand goodblend Texas has launched its first medical marijuana chocolate bar for patients registered in the Texas Compassionate Use Program. The Heights Dark Chocolate bar is the fifth first-to-market product innovation that it has launched in Texas in the last year.
Benzinga · Jan 20, 2022 Former SpaceX Engineers' Electric Railroad Startup Raises $49.5M In Series A Funding Parallel Systems, an electric railroad startup, said on Wednesday it has raised $49.55 million in Series A funding to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles to move freight. What Happened: The Culver City, California-based startup was founded in 2020 by three former SpaceX engineers.