The rise of AI slop refactoring is creating new demand for experienced engineers to turn AI-generated prototypes into production-ready software. For nearly four years, the tech industry has been flooded with predictions that artificial intelligence would replace software developers. The [β¦]
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The battle for elite AI talent just claimed another major name. John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning researcher behind AlphaFold, announced Friday that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join AI startup Anthropic. His departure marks one [β¦]
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The AI boom has created an uncomfortable reality for the semiconductor industry: demand for custom chips is outpacing companiesβ ability to design them. Training large AI models, running robotics systems, operating autonomous machines, and building next-generation computing platforms all require [β¦]
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Participants can earn points by trading, staking, and holding $ASSET, unlocking multipliers and competing for up to $20,000 in USDC rewards plus additional raffle prizes. As competition for user attention intensifies across crypto and decentralized finance, blockchain projects are searching [β¦]
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Just days after Wall Street crowned SpaceX one of the most valuable companies on the planet, the stockβs gravity-defying rally is starting to look a lot less certain. Shares of SpaceX fell another 3.6% on Thursday, extending a sharp retreat [β¦]
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As with any industry operating online, modern technology is shaping the present and future of the iGaming landscape. There are many aspects to iGaming in this digital era, so we will examine the areas of modern tech that are having [β¦]
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Itβs Thursday, June 18, 2026, and the clearest signal from todayβs funding tape is not that venture investors are spending widely. It is that they are concentrating capital around a narrow set of problems that look hard to commoditize: sovereign [β¦]
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The AI race has reached a point where success is measured in gigawatts. Meta has signed new agreements with AI infrastructure startup Crusoe that will give the company access to roughly 1.6 gigawatts of computing capacity across two data centers [β¦]
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Metaβs $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus may be heading for an unusual reversal. The early investors who backed Manus before its sale to Meta are now exploring a plan to buy the company back at the same $2 [β¦]
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Playnance announced Thursday that its native token, $GCOIN, has been listed on KoinBX, giving users of the companyβs blockchain-powered Web3 gaming ecosystem a new venue to trade the token. The listing comes as Playnance gains traction in India, where more [β¦]
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Founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio and former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Dream develops AI-powered cyber defense systems that help governments protect critical infrastructure from state-backed cyber threats. Dream, an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded by former NSO Group [β¦]
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Since its launch three years ago, Elon Musk has pitched xAI as a challenger to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence systems. One of the fieldβs most influential researchers is not convinced. [β¦]
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Itβs Wednesday, June 17, 2026, and venture capital is increasingly shifting away from consumer-facing AI applications toward the infrastructure layers that power them. Todayβs funding activity was concentrated in AI deployment infrastructure, regulated financial systems, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and biotech [β¦]
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CuspAI, a UK startup using artificial intelligence to discover new materials, is reportedly raising $400 million in funding at a $2.6 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The round includes participation from Jeff Bezosβ family office, Bezos Expeditions, and [β¦]
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Real-time data has become a key asset in modern finance. In cross-border operations, startups and fintech firms track not only payments and transactions but also currency markets that directly shape costs, revenue, and growth decisions. A sudden shift in a [β¦]
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The 753-billion-parameter model outperformed GPT-5.5 on several software engineering benchmarks, offers a 1-million-token context window, and is available under an unrestricted MIT license. Since ChatGPTβs launch in November 2022, the AI industryβs most capable models have largely come from a [β¦]
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What happens when a struggling shoe company decides it wants to become an AI infrastructure business? Investors are about to find out. Just two months after abandoning its footwear identity in favor of artificial intelligence, Allbirds announced Wednesday that it [β¦]
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Text is no longer the dominant language of the internet. Memes, GIFs, stickers, and short video clips have become a primary way people communicate online, especially among younger users. AI is pouring fuel on that trend, turning millions of consumers [β¦]
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Odyssey, a startup building what researchers call βworld models,β announced Wednesday that it has raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation. The round was led by Natural Capital and included participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, [β¦]
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As AI data centers, factories, airlines, and heavy industries consume more energy, one question keeps resurfacing: How will the world remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere? A coalition backed by some of the biggest names [β¦]
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Itβs Tuesday, June 16, 2026, and venture capital investors are sending a clear message: the race to build the infrastructure behind the AI economy is far from over. Capital did not fan out evenly today. It clustered around three ideas: [β¦]
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Rivian is cutting hundreds of jobs as the electric vehicle maker enters one of the most important chapters in its history. The layoffs, announced Tuesday, affect less than 2% of Rivianβs workforce and come just days after the company began [β¦]
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