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DeepSeek seeks $300M in first fundraise at $10B+ valuation as AI costs surge

17 April 2026 at 19:39

DeepSeek is preparing to raise outside capital for the first time, a move that could value the Chinese AI startup at more than $10 billion as the cost of building advanced models continues to climb. The company, which shook Silicon [โ€ฆ]

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Flock Safety hits $8.4B valuation as AI-powered police tech sparks nationwide protests

17 April 2026 at 17:57

Flock Safety is growing fast. The backlash against it is growing just as quickly. The Atlanta-based police tech startup has reached an $8.4 billion valuation following a recent funding round, according to a publicly filed corporate charter and people familiar [โ€ฆ]

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Top Tech News Today, April 17, 2026

17 April 2026 at 16:42

Itโ€™s Friday, April 17, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today โ€” from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Theย AI boom is hitting its next phase. What started as a wave of AI breakthroughs [โ€ฆ]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News โ€“ April 16 2025

17 April 2026 at 01:41

Itโ€™s Thursday, April 16, 2026, and weโ€™re back with todayโ€™s top startup and tech funding news. Todayโ€™s rounds reflect a clear shift toward AI-native infrastructure, financial operating systems, and domain-specific platforms that move beyond surface-level automation into core workflows. From [โ€ฆ]

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FinanceWire Partners with Symex Economics to Bring Targeted Investor Distribution to Euronext Paris Companies

16 April 2026 at 18:48

Tel Aviv, Israel, April 16, 2026 โ€” FinanceWire:ย FinanceWire has entered into a strategic partnership with Symex Economics to bring targeted financial news distribution and investor engagement tools to the French market, opening a direct channel between Euronext-listed companies and global [โ€ฆ]

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Top Tech News Today, April 16, 2026

16 April 2026 at 16:31

Itโ€™s Thursday, April 16, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today โ€” from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Over the past 24 hours, one theme has kept coming into focus: the future of [โ€ฆ]

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U.S. Navy Drone Tests Fail After Starlink Outage, Exposing Pentagonโ€™s Reliance on SpaceX

16 April 2026 at 16:04

A routine Navy exercise off the California coast turned into a quiet stress test of the Pentagonโ€™s tech stack. When SpaceXโ€™s Starlink network went down during a global outage last August, more than two dozen unmanned surface vessels lost contact [โ€ฆ]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News โ€“ April 15 2025

16 April 2026 at 01:57

Itโ€™s Wednesday, April 15, 2026, and weโ€™re back with todayโ€™s top startup and tech funding news. Todayโ€™s rounds highlight a clear shift toward AI infrastructure, agentic systems, next-generation therapeutics, and space-based intelligence. As capital continues to concentrate around platforms that [โ€ฆ]

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Snap lays off 1,000 employees, or 16% of workforce, as AI takes over 65% of coding work

15 April 2026 at 21:09

Snap is cutting deeper into its workforce as artificial intelligence takes a larger role inside the company. Snap Inc. said Wednesday it will lay off about 1,000 employees, roughly 16% of its full-time staff, marking one of its largest job [โ€ฆ]

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NanoTech raises $29.4M Series A to protect U.S. infrastructure from extreme heat and wildfires

15 April 2026 at 19:05

Extreme heat is no longer a seasonal inconvenience. Itโ€™s becoming a structural problem for buildings, roads, and public assets across the U.S. At the same time, wildfire risk continues to climb, pushing infrastructure owners to rethink how they protect what [โ€ฆ]

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Allbirds pivots from shoes to AI after 99% collapse, stock surges 300% on NewBird AI plan

15 April 2026 at 18:11

Allbirds is attempting one of the wildest reinventions in recent memory. The sneaker company that once became a Silicon Valley favorite, reached a valuation of more than $4 billion, and turned sustainability into a brand identity, is now abandoning shoes [โ€ฆ]

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Top Tech News Today, April 15, 2026

15 April 2026 at 16:35

Itโ€™s Wednesday, April 15, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today โ€” from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech.ย AI has moved far beyond apps and chatbots. The real fight now is happening underneath โ€” [โ€ฆ]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News โ€“ April 14 2025

15 April 2026 at 01:57

Itโ€™s Tuesday, April 14, 2026, and weโ€™re back with todayโ€™s top startup and tech funding news. Todayโ€™s deals show a clear shift in where serious capital is going: into the infrastructure, orchestration layers, and applied systems that will define how [โ€ฆ]

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