U.S. aviation startup Skyryse has crossed the billion-dollar mark after closing a $300 million Series C round, which values it at $1.15 billion. The round was led by Autopilot Ventures, with backing from returning investor Fidelity Management & Research Company, […]

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Alphabet just made its biggest bet yet on autonomous driving, and the market is paying attention. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, said Monday it raised a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $126 billion post-money, a sharp […]

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Health plans are buried under rising medical costs, tighter oversight, and a claims process that quietly burns through hundreds of billions of dollars each year. A growing number are betting that AI can help—if it doesn’t create new risk in […]

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For years, PayPal has talked about moving faster. Now it’s the board that’s making a bet that leadership, not strategy slides, will finally change the pace. The payments giant announced today that Enrique Lores will take over as President and […]

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It’s Monday, February 2, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s financings reflect mounting investor momentum around autonomous systems, stablecoin infrastructure, and embodied AI. As AI-native platforms expand from cloud to robotics and financial […]

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OpenAI rolled out a standalone app for its AI coding assistant, Codex, opening a new chapter in how developers work with autonomous software agents. The app is available on Apple computers, and for a limited time, Codex access is open […]

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It’s Monday, February 2, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Today’s tech cycle is being shaped by scale, stress, and strategic recalibration. From trillion-dollar AI infrastructure […]

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For years, AI agents lived in demos, research papers, and conference slides. They talked. They suggested. They waited. Then OpenClaw showed up and started doing. The open-source AI agent has surged from obscurity into one of the most talked-about projects […]

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A federal jury in San Francisco has delivered a verdict that lands at the center of the global AI race, the Department of Justice announced Friday. On Thursday, jurors convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing sensitive AI trade […]

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It’s Friday, January 30, 2026, and today’s global tech landscape is being reshaped by the rising cost of AI scale, deepening regulatory scrutiny, and the physical limits of infrastructure. Big Tech earnings exposed how capital-intensive the AI race has become, […]

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Elon Musk may be preparing his boldest corporate reshuffle yet, and this one could redraw the lines between rockets, electric cars, and artificial intelligence. SpaceX is quietly weighing deals that would bring one of Musk’s other companies under the same […]

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It’s Thursday, January 29, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect deepening investor commitment to AI cloud infrastructure, chiplet interconnects, fintech orchestration, and scalable biotech. As competition accelerates in AI and advanced […]

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Apple just made one of its biggest bets yet on AI and audio, and it did it in its usual quiet way. The company has acquired Israeli artificial intelligence startup Q.ai, Apple confirmed Thursday. Financial terms were not officially disclosed, though […]

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Trust rarely announces itself. It shows up after years of pressure, scrutiny, and repeated proof. That idea sits at the center of KuCoin’s new partnership with Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar, a collaboration that links elite sport and global […]

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Crypto exchange hacks rarely start on-chain. They start quietly, off-chain, with a leaked API key. That weak spot has already cost the industry billions. From Safe-related breaches tied to Bybit, to incidents involving Swissborg and Dimo, attackers keep exploiting the […]

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