In 2024, Sir Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, an AI system that solved a fifty-year problem by predicting protein structures at scale. The achievement felt like a finish line for AI-driven […]

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For more than two decades, Amazon has built its dominance by owning every step of the online shopping process. People discovered products on Amazon, researched them on Amazon, and relied on Amazon to deliver them. That control gave sellers little […]

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For years, enterprise security teams have been told that better detection starts with moving more data. Logs pulled from everywhere. Pipelines stitched together. Costs are climbing quietly in the background. The model became so familiar that few questioned whether it […]

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Fortune’s investigation details the unusually high concentration of USD1 at Binance and the conflict-of-interest questions it raises. Binance did not quietly become the dominant holder of a Trump-linked stablecoin. It happened in plain sight, through promotions, transfers, and a sequence […]

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The data extraction market has been growing fast, quietly, and profitably. That calm just ended. Google has released an open-source tool that puts a fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar industry on notice. The tool, called LangExtract, tackles a problem that has long required paid […]

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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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