Crypto has spent years promising everyday utility. Now, one of the industry’s largest exchanges is trying to close that gap at the checkout counter. KuCoin said it is rolling out direct crypto payments for eligible users in Australia through Mastercard’s global […]

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Elon Musk has spent years selling Mars as the endgame for SpaceX. The latest glimpse into its finances tells a different story. The company is pouring billions into artificial intelligence, turning what was once a rocket business into an AI […]

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Canadian AI lab Cohere said Friday it plans to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, a move to accelerate its expansion across Europe’s growing sovereign AI market. The acquisition, still subject to regulatory approval, comes alongside a planned $600 million […]

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It’s Friday, April 24, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. The battle for AI is no longer theoretical—it’s unfolding across factories, balance sheets, and government […]

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Tokenized real-world assets continue to gain traction, and the race is shifting from hype to infrastructure. REAL and RWA Inc. have just signed on to work together, aiming to close the gap between asset issuance and on-chain investor access. REAL, […]

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DeepSeek is back, and it’s not easing into the spotlight. A year after its earlier model rattled Silicon Valley and forced a rethink on how much it really costs to build advanced AI, the Hangzhou-based startup has introduced a new flagship […]

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It’s Thursday, April 23, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds make one thing clear: AI is moving past experimentation and into production systems where reliability, governance, and real-world utility matter more than […]

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OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, its latest artificial intelligence model, advancing its push into systems that can handle real-world work with less human input. The new model lands less than two months after GPT-5.4, underscoring how quickly the AI race is […]

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A Texas private school already under scrutiny for replacing traditional classrooms with AI-powered learning is now making one of the boldest promises yet in education: make $1 million by graduation, or get your tuition back. Alpha School, founded in 2014 […]

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War is changing faster than most security teams can keep up. Conflicts like the one in Ukraine have shown what happens when AI enters the fight: attacks move at machine speed, data floods in from every direction, and human analysts […]

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Anthropic kept its most sensitive AI system behind closed doors, warning it was too risky for public release. Days later, it was reportedly running inside a private Discord group. That’s the claim at the center of a new report from […]

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Sony just put a robot across the table—and it didn’t blink. In a series of live matchups that feel closer to science fiction than a lab demo, Sony AI’s table tennis robot, Ace, has beaten elite human players under official International […]

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Enterprises are being flooded with code—and much of it isn’t written by humans anymore. That shift is driving fresh urgency around one problem many teams can’t ignore: how to control, verify, and secure the software generated by AI coding tools. Cloudsmith, […]

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It’s Thursday, April 23, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech.  AI isn’t just racing ahead—it’s colliding with reality. In the past 24 hours, the story of […]

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Yesterday, we wrote about how SpaceX secured a $60 billion option to acquire Cursor later this year, or pay $10 billion to continue their AI collaboration. Now, a new report from CNBC adds a twist to the story—and it points […]

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It’s Wednesday, April 22, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds point to a deeper shift in where capital is flowing: away from standalone software and toward the infrastructure powering the next wave […]

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The companies racing to build AI are running into a hard limit: data. Training and running models at scale isn’t just about chips anymore. It’s about how fast you can move, store, and feed massive datasets across millions of GPUs. […]

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Patients are getting prescribed life-changing drugs—and then getting lost in the system. Delays in insurance approvals, disconnected support teams, and fragmented data often turn treatment into a slow, frustrating process. For biopharma companies, the breakdown doesn’t happen in the lab. It […]

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SaaS pricing is breaking under the weight of AI. What used to be simple—charge per seat, bill monthly—no longer fits a world where usage spikes unpredictably, and costs rack up in real time. Schematic is stepping into that gap with […]

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