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Yesterday — 18 February 2026Tech Startups

From “Pending” to “Instant”: How UX Demands Are Changing Casino Cashouts

18 February 2026 at 03:48

Online casinos are booming in popularity as many more people discover the excitement of classic games such as blackjack, poker, roulette, slots, and more. Smartphones and faster broadband speeds have put a casino in everybody’s pocket, allowing gamers access to […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 17, 2025

18 February 2026 at 03:23

It’s Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds underscore investor urgency in scaling foundational AI infrastructure, commercial space platforms, and industrial decarbonization systems. As the tech stack reorganizes around AI-native […]

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Render raises $100M at $1.5B valuation as AI boom fuels cloud infrastructure shift

17 February 2026 at 23:01

The AI coding surge is minting new winners in cloud infrastructure — and Render just joined the unicorn club. The San Francisco AI cloud startup said Tuesday it has raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, doubling down on […]

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OpenAI launches Prism AI workspace on Prism.app, a domain sold for $120K 10 days earlier

17 February 2026 at 22:06

On January 17, NameBio reported that Prism.app had sold for $120,000. Ten days later, the domain began redirecting to prism.openai.com. Now, OpenAI has officially launched Prism, a free AI workspace built for scientific writing and collaboration, powered by GPT-5.2. The timing […]

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This Nuclear Engineer Turned a ‘Boring’ Niche into a $50M-a-Year Business

17 February 2026 at 21:24

From Submarines to HOA Software Ben Currin didn’t plan to build software for homeowners’ associations. He trained as a nuclear engineer. He served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. His early career revolved around reactor systems and national […]

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Certivo raises $4M seed funding to bring AI-native compliance automation to global supply chains

17 February 2026 at 18:09

Compliance rarely makes headlines. It sits in shared drives, buried in supplier emails and spreadsheets, surfacing only when something goes wrong. Certivo believes that the model no longer works. The New York–based startup has raised $4 million in seed funding […]

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Top Tech News Today, February 17, 2026

17 February 2026 at 17:24

It’s Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Artificial intelligence is redrawing the map of global power — not just in software, but in […]

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Temporal raises $300M at $5B valuation to solve AI’s reliability problem at scale

17 February 2026 at 16:42

AI agents can write code, book flights, and draft legal memos. But ask them to execute long-running tasks across distributed systems without breaking, and the cracks start to show. That gap is where Temporal sees its opportunity. The San Francisco […]

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Building a Hardware Startup? Plan for Physical Expansion Earlier Than You Think

17 February 2026 at 03:56

Starting a hardware business feels alive. You build tangible solutions to everyday problems, and seeing your concept come to life brings joy unlike anything else. Still, beyond the rush of sketching prototypes or first builds, one key truth tends to […]

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China’s humanoid robots perform flawless Kung Fu at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala

17 February 2026 at 03:47

If you still think Silicon Valley owns the future of robotics, China just made its counterargument in prime time. On February 16, 2026, during the annual Spring Festival Gala broadcast by China Media Group, humanoid robots stepped onto the country’s most-watched […]

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Over 90% of SaaS Projects Fail. Do This Instead

17 February 2026 at 02:41

A founder spends six months building a product. The interface is clean. The onboarding feels intuitive. The feature set is carefully considered. Every edge case has been anticipated. Every pixel is aligned. When launch day finally arrives, there is a […]

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Nvidia just commoditized the voice AI stack with PersonaPlex-7B

16 February 2026 at 23:05

NVIDIA just made every voice AI API a commodity with the launch of the new conversational AI model, PersonaPlex-7B. The open-source full-duplex model collapses ASR, LLM, and TTS into a single 7B system—shifting voice AI margins from APIs to GPUs.  […]

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Octopus Energy Generation invests $1 billion in California clean tech, expands U.S. energy footprint

16 February 2026 at 19:38

California’s clean energy economy just pulled in another major foreign backer. Octopus Energy Generation is committing nearly $1 billion to California-based climate and energy projects, deepening its presence in the United States at a time when global capital is flowing into […]

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Top Tech News Today, February 16, 2026

16 February 2026 at 18:48

It’s Monday, February 16, 2026, and here are the top tech stories dominating the news. Today’s digest captures a global snapshot of where leverage is shifting—from silicon and memory to regulation, security, energy systems, and the Moon. AI is no […]

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Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5, says new agentic AI model outperforms GPT-5.2, Claude and Gemini

16 February 2026 at 18:01

Alibaba is turning up the heat in China’s AI race. On Monday, the e-commerce giant introduced Qwen 3.5, its latest large language model built for what it calls the “agentic AI era.” The company says the new model can complete complex […]

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