MrBeast is pushing his empire into an unexpected place: Fintech and banking. Beast Industries is entering fintech for the first time. Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson’s company has agreed to acquire Step Mobile, a banking app focused on teens and young adults, […]

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The Singapore-based AI startup is rolling out Topview 4.0, a collaborative AI content workspace that pulls text, image, voice, and video generation into a single cloud environment. The launch arrives alongside $5.5 million in fresh funding, pushing the company’s Series […]

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Galux is building something that drug discovery has chased for decades: the ability to design therapeutic proteins from scratch with speed, accuracy, and confidence. On Monday, the South Korea–based biotech startup said it has raised $29 million in a Series […]

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It’s Monday, February 9, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves. Today’s global tech headlines reveal an ecosystem under quiet but accelerating pressure. From fresh AI advances reshaping software economics to cybersecurity incidents hitting payments and telecom […]

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AI.com has been acquired by Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek for $70 million, placing it among the most expensive domain names ever sold and signaling a high-stakes bet on the future of AI platforms. The deal, first reported by CoinDesk and […]

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Anthropic on Thursday rolled out Claude Opus 4.6, its newest and most advanced AI model, pitching it as a system that can handle longer assignments, handle deeper code work, and deliver professional-grade outputs that go beyond quick answers and short […]

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January opened with a jolt for the U.S. labor market. Employers announced more than 108,000 job cuts in the first month of the year, the highest January total in 17 years and the steepest start to a year since the […]

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For most people, hiring a lawyer still feels slow, expensive, and unpredictable. Lawhive is betting that software can finally change that. The UK-founded legaltech startup has raised $60 million in Series B capital as it pushes deeper into the US […]

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ElevenLabs just closed a $500 million funding round that values the company at $11 billion, a sharp jump from the $3.3 billion price valuation a year ago. The raise lands as the three-year-old startup lines up a path toward a […]

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For a brief moment last summer, it looked like Figma had pulled off the cleanest tech IPO in years. The design startup went public on July 31, 2025, debuting on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker FIG. Shares […]

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Y Combinator has released its 2026 Request for Startups, a tradition that offers founders a glimpse into the ideas and problem areas the world’s most influential startup accelerator wants founders to tackle next. The 2026 request doesn’t just reflect what […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 4, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Today’s tech news highlights how the AI boom is colliding with real-world limits — from […]

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