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AI accelerates drug discovery from decades to months as Isomorphic Labs’ Drug Design Engine pushes beyond Nobel-Level science

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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Amazon is losing control of e-commerce as TikTok forces sellers to choose sides

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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Vega raises $120M Series B led by Accel to replace centralized SIEMs with AI-native security analytics

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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Hauler Hero raises $16M Series A to modernize waste management with AI

For years, Silicon Valley poured money into software that optimized desks, dashboards, and digital workflows. One industry that never made the shortlist was waste management. The trucks kept rolling. The paper route sheets stayed. The billing errors piled up quietly. […]

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Matia raises $21M Series A to unify data infrastructure for AI production

AI workloads are moving from experiments to production, and the data stacks behind them are being tested in real time. That shift is driving a new wave of infrastructure spending, and Matia is one of the companies catching it early. […]

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Binance, whose founder was pardoned, now holds 87% of Trump’s stablecoin USD1

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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Databricks raises $5B at $134B valuation as AI revenue surges and IPO talk grows

Databricks just pulled in one of the largest private financings the data software sector has ever seen, locking up $5 billion in equity and another $2 billion in fresh debt capacity at a $134 billion valuation. The numbers land at […]

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Google just open-sourced LangExtract, a free tool that does what $50K enterprise document extraction software does

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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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 9, 2025

It’s Monday, February 9, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect surging investor conviction in foundational AI models, physical automation, and AI-native enterprise infrastructure. As next-gen platforms blur the line between software […]

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MrBeast expands into Fintech as Beast Industries acquires Gen-Z banking app Step Mobile

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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Topview unveils collaborative AI content platform after raising $5.5M and reaching 5M users

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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Apollo nears $3.4B funding to back Nvidia chip leasing deal for Elon Musk’s xAI

Apollo Global Management is closing in on another multibillion-dollar bet tied to the race for AI compute, one that puts Nvidia chips at the center of Elon Musk’s expanding xAI footprint. According to a report from The Information, Apollo is […]

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OpenAI’s Codex surges 50% while ChatGPT hits 10% monthly growth as Sam Altman signals comeback amid Anthropic rivalry and potential $100B fundraise

After months of pressure from rivals and growing doubts across Silicon Valley, CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT has “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth.” The message posted on Slack late last week signaled that OpenAI believes the slide […]

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Galux raises $29M Series B to scale AI-driven protein design for drug discovery

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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Top Tech News Today, February 9, 2026

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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Nvidia-backed AI startup Firmus secures $10B Blackstone-led loan to build Australia’s AI data center backbone

Firmus Technologies, an Australian artificial intelligence infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, has secured a $10 billion debt funding package led by Blackstone, with participation from Coatue Capital, the company reported on Monday. The financing ranks among the largest private credit […]

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Playnance emerges from stealth after operating a Web2-to-Web3 ecosystem at scale as Kris Marszalek pushes AI.com into the spotlight

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 acquired for $70 million by Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek

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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Crypto-hoarding treasury firms are becoming a market risk as the 2026 rout deepens

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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Why Blockchain Payments Aren’t Being Driven by Speculation

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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Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI are paying influencers up to $600,000 to promote AI

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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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 5, 2025

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 launches Claude Opus 4.6, a more powerful AI model built for coding, finance, and enterprise work

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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Anthropic’s Claude plugins spark $285 billion software stock selloff as AI targets entire SaaS workflows

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 layoffs hit a 17-year high as employers slash jobs at fastest pace since the Great Recession, report

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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Lawhive raises $60M Series B funding to expand across 35 US states

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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