It’s Wednesday, March 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight growing investor urgency around autonomous cybersecurity, cancer immunotherapy, and AI observability for agent-based systems. As AI-native infrastructure becomes critical to sectors […]

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Meta just pulled the plug on its metaverse dream, drawing a line under one of the most ambitious bets in tech history. The company said Tuesday it will shut down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social platform once positioned at […]

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There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when managing your money meant an actual trip to a brick-and-mortar building. You’d have to plan your entire afternoon around bank hours, wait in those slow-moving lines, and talk […]

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A new wave of AI startups is taking shape, and Mirendil is stepping into it with serious ambition—and serious backing. Founded by former Anthropic researchers, the San Francisco-based startup is already in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 […]

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Dell just made one thing clear: the AI boom is not saving jobs—it’s reshaping them. In its latest annual filing, the company confirmed it cut about 11,000 employees in fiscal 2026, trimming roughly 10% of its workforce. The move came with […]

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Meta is moving its AI ambitions a step closer to your personal machine. The company’s newly acquired startup Manus has released a desktop application that puts its general-purpose AI agent directly on users’ laptops. Until now, Manus lived in the cloud, […]

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It’s Wednesday, March 18, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. A quiet power shift is underway across the global tech landscape—and it’s happening beneath the surface […]

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The AI alliance that helped power Microsoft’s rise is now at risk of unraveling. Microsoft is weighing legal action against OpenAI over a $50 billion cloud agreement with Amazon—a deal that could redraw the balance of power in the infrastructure behind […]

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KuCoin is heading to the French Alps with a clear message: crypto wants a place in culture, not just on trading screens. The exchange is rolling out its first on-site activations at Tomorrowland Winter 2026, marking the start of a […]

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It’s Tuesday, March 17, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight accelerating investor interest in embedded fintech, automated cybersecurity, programmable therapeutics, and AI-native infrastructure for personalization and compliance. From reshaping how enterprises […]

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Lugano, Switzerland, March 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire   On St. Patrick’s Day, as 2 million spectators flood the streets of New York City, USA₮, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, is taking over Times Square. The brand activation combines synchronized digital […]

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World, the network responsible for the proof of humanity solution World ID, has just unveiled a major new product. AgentKit is targeted at developers, but web users will be the primary beneficiaries of the technology once it’s integrated into apps […]

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For many people across Europe, the hardest part of getting into crypto isn’t picking a token. It’s figuring out how to move money in and out safely. Bybit EU is trying to remove that friction by bringing a familiar name […]

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Mastercard is making one of its clearest bets yet on where payments are headed next. The company said Tuesday it plans to acquire stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK in a deal valued at up to $1.8 billion, signaling a deeper push into […]

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For years, industrial safety has relied on manual checks, delayed reporting, and systems that react only after something goes wrong. That gap is still costing companies and workers dearly. A startup out of Poland thinks it can change that by […]

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For decades, hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease has been treated with therapies that often fall short. Now, a new biotech startup, R1 Therapeutics, is aiming to change that with fresh funding and a different approach. The company has launched from […]

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It’s Tuesday, March 17, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. AI spending isn’t slowing down—it’s shifting. From Nvidia projecting a trillion-dollar chip market to Meta locking in a $27 billion infrastructure deal, the race is moving […]

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For a while, the big worry around AI trading bots was easy to picture. They could read the market wrong. They could spit out bad analysis. They could tell users to make a move they should never make. Now a […]

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Alibaba is making its next move in artificial intelligence with a product that signals where enterprise software is headed. On Tuesday, the Chinese tech giant introduced Wukong, a new agentic AI platform built to help businesses run multiple AI agents […]

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It’s Monday, March 16, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight surging investor conviction in core AI infrastructure, industrial robotics, biotech platforms, and tokenized financial systems. As competition in generative AI intensifies, […]

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A Chinese defense tech startup says its artificial intelligence system picked up radio signals from U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers during a strike on Iran, a claim that, if verified, could raise new questions about the limits of stealth warfare. […]

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Walk into any grocery store, and you’ll see millions spent on packaging, branding, and promotions competing for attention on a crowded shelf. Yet many consumer brands still have little visibility into what happens once their products reach retail. Shelves run […]

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The long fight over AI training data just pulled in one of the most recognizable names in publishing. Encyclopaedia Britannica and its dictionary arm, Merriam-Webster, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Manhattan, accusing the company of using […]

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Web3 gaming projects spend huge amounts of time chasing distribution. Playnance may have found a shortcut. The Web3 infrastructure company behind the G Coin ecosystem announced a strategic partnership with KGeN, a distribution protocol focused on gaming, AI, DeFi, and consumer […]

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Elon Musk rarely admits that one of his companies started on the wrong footing. This week, he did exactly that. In a post on X, Musk acknowledged that his artificial intelligence company xAI is being rebuilt from scratch after early design […]

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It’s Monday, March 16, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. Global tech is starting the week with a familiar theme: the AI race is accelerating—and it’s spilling into everything from power grids and memory supply chains […]

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