Playnance did not arrive with fanfare. It arrived with a live system already operating at scale. After operating quietly for years, the Web3 infrastructure and consumer platform company is now stepping into public view, revealing how it has been onboarding […]

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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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Yesterday’s sharp move in Bitcoin did not happen in isolation. The slide from $70,000 into the mid-$60,000s, driven by heavy ETF outflows, marked a shift in tone across risk assets. The selling was broad, fast, and unforgiving — a reminder […]

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For much of the past decade, blockchain adoption has been framed through the lens of speculation. Price charts dominated the conversation, while real-world usage felt secondary. That narrative no longer reflects how startups are actually using blockchain in 2026. What’s […]

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It’s Friday, February 6, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. AI’s expansion is no longer theoretical. It is now reshaping supply chains, enterprise software, consumer hardware, […]

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The next big fight in artificial intelligence is not happening inside a model or a lab. It’s playing out on Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok. Some of the largest tech companies in the world are now paying creators massive sums […]

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It’s Thursday, February 5, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect growing investor conviction in AI model infrastructure, legaltech automation, humanoid robotics, and real-time climate systems. As enterprise demand for transparency, speed, […]

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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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A quiet release from Anthropic set off one of the most violent software selloffs in years, erasing roughly $285 billion in market value across software, legal tech, financial services, and asset management. The trigger was not a new model. It […]

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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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It’s Thursday, February 5, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Today’s tech headlines reveal an industry straining at its limits. From Big Tech committing national-scale […]

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Bitcoin slipped below $70,000 on Thursday, a level traders had treated as psychological bedrock for months. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to an intraday low of $69,322.212, its weakest print since November 2024, closing out a bruising stretch that has […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 4, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals spotlight a surge of investor interest in adaptive AI architectures, AI-optimized semiconductor infrastructure, and autonomous systems for heavy industry. As the race […]

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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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A new enterprise intelligence company is stepping out of the shadows with a serious war chest and an ambitious goal: change how high-stakes industries turn ideas into real-world systems. SynthBee, a previously stealth startup, has secured $100 million in funding […]

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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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The Washington Post has laid off hundreds of employees amid mounting losses. The shock landed fast. On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, staff at the Washington Post were summoned to a short Zoom call and told to stay home for the […]

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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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When Meta shut down Workplace, it quietly left behind a question that many enterprise teams still ask: What comes next after Slack and Teams? A group of former Meta engineers believes the answer lies in software that does more than […]

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