A fresh legal fight is brewing over how AI models are built, and this time it puts Meta back in the spotlight. A group of major publishers, including Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill, has sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan [β¦]
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Coinbase is laying off about 700 employees, roughly 14% of its workforce, as the company reshapes itself around AI and braces for a softer crypto market. CEO Brian Armstrong framed the move as a reset, meant to make the company [β¦]
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Crypto is trying to break into Wall Street. This time, itβs coming with paperwork.Β Bullish said Tuesday it will acquire Equiniti in a $4.2 billion deal, giving the exchange something the industry has long lacked: a regulated transfer agent that already [β¦]
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The rush to build AI is starting to hit a physical limit. It is not chips or models this time. It is electricity.Β Across the U.S. and Canada, data centers are drawing more power than grids were built to handle. New [β¦]
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The race to build bigger AI models is running into a hard limit: power. A single training run can burn through as much electricity as thousands of homes, and new data centers are getting stuck in years-long queues for grid [β¦]
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Itβs Tuesday, May 5, 2026, and AIβs hunger for power, chips, and secure supply chains is forcing governments, hyperscalers, and startups into high-stakes moves that will shape the next decade of tech. Here are the top global stories making waves [β¦]
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Wall Street is stepping deeper into AI, and this time itβs not just about funding models. Itβs about putting them to work inside real businesses. Anthropic said Monday it is teaming up with Goldman Sachs and Blackstone to launch a [β¦]
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Itβs Monday, May 4, 2026, and weβre back with todayβs top startup and tech funding news. Todayβs rounds reflect a clear shift toward infrastructure that powers AI, defense, and real-world systems. From enterprise AI agents and customer data platforms to [β¦]
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Kresus, a blockchain infrastructure company and implementation partner for the Canton Network, today announced a collaboration to help enterprises and organizations across industries design, build, and deploy blockchain applications in production, guiding them through every stage of the journey, from [β¦]
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Sierra, the AI startup founded by Bret Taylor, has raised $950 million in new funding at a $15.8 billion post-money valuation, according to CNBC. The raise lands in the middle of a deal surge, as investors race to back companies [β¦]
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KuCoin is leaning deeper into the overlap between crypto trading and real-world culture, and this time itβs tying that push to one of the biggest music festivals on the planet. The exchange has launched KuCoin PROOF: Tomorrowland Edition, a new [β¦]
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Blackstone is making a fresh move in one of the hottest corners of the market: the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence. The private equity giant is taking a newly formed investment vehicle public, aiming to raise just over $1.7 billion in [β¦]
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Enzo Health is betting that the future of care doesnβt sit inside a hospitalβit starts at home. The AI startup has raised a $20 million Series A round led by N47, bringing its total funding to $26 million, at a [β¦]
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SAP is making a bold call on where enterprise AI is headedβand itβs not betting on chatbots. The German software giant has agreed to acquire Prior Labs, a young startup focused on a niche many in AI have overlooked: structured [β¦]
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The courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is starting to pull back the curtain on how AI models are actually builtβand the latest revelation could have far-reaching consequences. During testimony this week, Musk acknowledged that his startup xAI [β¦]
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Itβs Monday, May 4, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today β from AI breakthroughs and Big Tech moves to regulation, cybersecurity, and frontier hardware. AIβs power hunger is pushing national grids to the brink, a [β¦]
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Cerebras is aiming to raise up to $3.5 billion in a Nasdaq listing, according to an updated prospectus filed Mondayβa move first reported by CNBC. The company plans to sell 28 million shares priced between $115 and $125. At the [β¦]
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An AI agent has crossed a line that, until now, belonged strictly to humans. It didnβt just write code or automate tasks. It formed a company. ClawBank, a project focused on building infrastructure for autonomous software, says its in-house agent, [β¦]
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The Pentagon is opening its doors wider to artificial intelligenceβand closing one, at least for now. On Friday, the Department of Defense said it has reached agreements with a group of major AI providers to bring their tools into its [β¦]
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Torrance, United States / California, 1st May 2026, CyberNewswire
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Itβs Friday, May 1, 2026 β and the AI infrastructure boom has officially gone into overdrive. Private equity is pouring tens of billions into purpose-built data centers and power plants, hyperscalers are forecasting record-shattering capex, and the race for compute, [β¦]
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KKR is making a $10 billion bet that the real bottleneck in artificial intelligence isnβt models or chips. Itβs everything around them. The private equity giant has launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new standalone company built to supply the physical [β¦]
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Itβs Thursday, April 30, 2026, and weβre back with todayβs top startup and tech funding news. Todayβs rounds highlight a clear shift toward AI infrastructure, autonomous systems, energy technology, and real-world deployment layers. From customer service automation to legal AI, [β¦]
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KuCoin is moving deeper into tokenized finance, bringing a slice of Wall Street directly into a crypto wallet.Β The crypto exchange said its Web3 Wallet has integrated Ondo Global Markets, opening access to more than 260 tokenized assets tied to traditional [β¦]
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Collectors donβt stop caring about their cards after they buy them. Thatβs where the friction starts. Storage, discovery, trading, and community all sit in different places, and the experience breaks down fast. A new game marketplace startup thinks it can [β¦]
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Blue Owl is cashing in on one of its most lucrative bets.Β The alternative asset manager has sold roughly half of its stake in SpaceX at a $1.25 trillion valuation, turning an early investment into a 10x return. The update came [β¦]
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KuCoin is bringing its futures market data directly into TradingView, putting one of cryptoβs most active derivatives feeds in front of more than 100 million traders who rely on the platform every day. The move connects KuCoinβs perpetual futures markets [β¦]
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Nvidia is tightening its grip on the next wave of AI by backing a fast-rising legal tech startup now valued in the billions.Β The chip giantβs venture arm, NVentures, has backed Swedish startup Legora at a $5.6 billion valuation, according to [β¦]
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