A new wave of AI startups is chasing a simple idea: people don’t want more content, they want better answers. PickMyBrain is betting that the best answers still come from real experts—and it just raised $2.1 million to prove it. […]

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Wall Street’s push into crypto just picked up more momentum. Franklin Templeton said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire 250 Digital, a cryptocurrency investment unit spun out of CoinFund, marking its latest step deeper into digital assets. The move lands […]

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OpenAI just did something few companies in history have pulled off—and now the pressure is real. The company said Tuesday it has closed a staggering $122 billion funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $852 billion. The raise tops the […]

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The war between the U.S., Israel, and Iran is no longer confined to military targets. It is now brushing up against the backbone of the global tech industry. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a direct warning to […]

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A cybercrime group with a track record of hitting some of tech’s biggest names says it has struck again—this time going after one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI talent pipeline. Posts circulating across X and Reddit point to […]

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The race to build the backbone of artificial intelligence just picked up speed—and CoreWeave is right at the center of it. The company has locked in $8.5 billion in new financing through a delayed-draw term loan facility, giving it fresh […]

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Debt markets move trillions every day, yet much of the work still runs on scattered documents, inbox threads, and spreadsheets. That gap has created an opening—and 9fin just raised fresh capital to go after it. The London- and New York-based […]

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Nvidia just made another decisive move in the race to control the future of AI infrastructure. The chip giant is investing $2 billion in Marvell Technology, tightening its grip on a market that is quickly shifting toward custom-built silicon and […]

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In what feels like the most on-brand slip of the year, Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, accidentally pushed its full Claude Code CLI source into the public npm registry—again. The latest incident, tied to version 2.1.88, left behind a […]

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As the war between the U.S. and Iran intensifies, the race to modernize naval warfare is accelerating—and one startup is suddenly at the center of it. Saronic, an Austin-based defense tech startup building autonomous surface vessels, has raised $1.75 billion […]

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Starcloud has raised a $170 million in Series A funding at a $1.1 billion valuation, hitting unicorn status just 17 months after its Y Combinator demo day. The Redmond-based orbital AI infrastructure startup is moving fast in a race that’s […]

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Samsung-backed Rebellions just pulled in $400 million, and it’s not chasing hype. The South Korean AI chip startup is going after a specific piece of the AI stack that’s starting to matter more than training: inference. With a $2.34 billion […]

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A group tied by Western researchers to Iranian cyber units says it broke into the personal email of FBI Director Kash Patel—and U.S. officials say the breach appears real. On Friday, the group calling itself Handala published photos and documents […]

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SoftBank Group just made one of its boldest moves in years, locking in a $40 billion bridge loan as it leans harder into artificial intelligence—and into OpenAI at the center of it all. The financing, announced Friday, ranks among the […]

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