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Musk reorganizes xAI team amid co-founders’ departures as SpaceX merger sets stage for trillion-dollar IPO

Elon Musk moved quickly this week to reset xAI’s leadership, tightening control of the artificial intelligence startup just days after folding it into SpaceX and tying its future to one of the most ambitious IPO plans in tech history. The […]

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Probability Calibration Explained Using Reliability Diagrams And Real Platforms

A model that says “0.90 confident” is making a promise. It is not saying “I feel sure.” It is saying, “In situations like this, I will be right about 90% of the time.” Many teams treat that number like a […]

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Largest funding rounds of early 2026: Top startups attracting massive VC investment

If 2025 was the year AI proved it could work, early 2026 is the moment investors decided it must scale. Over the past several weeks, venture capital activity has shifted decisively away from lightweight experimentation and toward execution at industrial […]

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Apptronik raises $520M at $5B valuation to bring humanoid robots to market ahead of Tesla

For years, humanoid robots have lived comfortably in demos, research labs, and keynote slides. Apptronik is trying to move them onto factory floors before the hype cycle runs out. The Austin-based startup has raised $520 million in new funding at […]

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Top Tech News Today, February 11, 2026

It’s Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and today’s global tech headlines reveal how quickly the AI era is reshaping infrastructure, markets, and power dynamics across the industry. From Microsoft experimenting with new power technologies for AI data centers to governments treating […]

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Nebius buys Tavily for $275M to bring real-time agentic search into its AI cloud

The race to build useful AI agents is shifting from flashy demos to something far more practical: access to live information. That shift is now driving real money. Nebius Group NV has agreed to acquire Tavily in a deal valued […]

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xAI loses two more co-founders after SpaceX mega-merger, five co-founders gone in under a year

xAI is going to space. Its co-founders are walking out. The SpaceX merger deal was meant to signal lift-off. Instead, it’s exposing turbulence inside xAI. Just days after Elon Musk folded his artificial intelligence startup into SpaceX, two more xAI […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 10, 2025

It’s Tuesday, February 10, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect sustained investor conviction in AI-native platforms, security infrastructure, and software systems being rebuilt for an agent-driven era. Capital continues to flow […]

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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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