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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B valuation

Anthropic has pulled off one of the largest funding rounds in startup history, raising $30 billion in a Series G that pushes its valuation to $380 billion. The deal comes just weeks after another massive raise, showing how quickly investor […]

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The Press Release Problem in Crypto: When Paid Visibility Replaces Journalism

Crypto has no shortage of information. What it increasingly lacks is separation. A recent independent analysis of nearly 3,000 crypto press releases highlights a structural issue that many readers, founders, and journalists have sensed for years but rarely seen clearly: […]

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Founder Mobility: Why Today’s Entrepreneurs Move Cities Strategically

Nowhere is change more visible than in how business owners choose where to build their companies. Cross-regional, sometimes cross-continental, moves for private purposes or to gain better market access are on the rise. Cities once thought central for startup life […]

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China successfully landed reusable rocket on the sea, closing the gap with SpaceX

On April 8, 2016, SpaceX became the first company in the world to land and recover an orbital-class rocket booster at sea, touching down a Falcon 9 first stage on an autonomous drone ship after a mission to the International […]

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OpenClaw Is Going Viral. Here’s The #1 Use Case and 35 Ways People Automate Work and Life With It

OpenClaw didn’t ease its way into public view. It erupted.Β The project launched on January 25 as Claudebot. Two days later, an Anthropic trademark notice landed. Within hours, the name changed to Moltbot. Another rebrand followed days later, this time to […]

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SantΓ© raises $7.6M seed to build the first AI and fintech infrastructure for the wine and liquor industry

For years, wine and liquor retailers have operated in a corner of retail that most software companies quietly ignored. Regulations change by city block. Inventory behaves differently from standard consumer goods. A single bottle can belong to multiple pricing tiers […]

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Poland-based B2B startup Demoboost raises €2.8M to turn product demos into revenue intelligence

Poland-based B2B startup Demoboost is betting that product demos can do far more than help close a deal. The Warsaw-based company has raised €2.8 million to turn demos into a source of revenue intelligence, at a moment when B2B sales […]

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Tangible secures $4.3M seed to help hardtech startups replace equity with structured debt

Hardtech startups are building the physical backbone of the modern economy. From energy systems and transport networks to data centers and industrial hardware, these companies need real assets long before they reach traditional scale. The problem is how those assets […]

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SoftBank’s OpenAI bet pays off as Vision Fund posts $2.4B gain

SoftBank made its boldest bet yet.Β The Japanese investment giant reported a $2.4 billion gain at its Vision Fund in the December quarter, driven by a sharp jump in the value of its stake in OpenAI, CNBC reports. The result marked […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 11, 2025

It’s Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Investors are deploying major capital into advanced robotics, industrial automation, AI infrastructure, and defense-grade software. From fusion-powered energy systems to real-time enterprise resilience, today’s […]

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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 β€œ0.90 confident” is making a promise. It is not saying β€œI feel sure.” It is saying, β€œIn 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.Β 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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