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From “Pending” to “Instant”: How UX Demands Are Changing Casino Cashouts

Online casinos are booming in popularity as many more people discover the excitement of classic games such as blackjack, poker, roulette, slots, and more. Smartphones and faster broadband speeds have put a casino in everybody’s pocket, allowing gamers access to […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 17, 2025

It’s Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds underscore investor urgency in scaling foundational AI infrastructure, commercial space platforms, and industrial decarbonization systems. As the tech stack reorganizes around AI-native […]

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6: Near-Opus intelligence at lower cost, now default for Pro and Team users

Anthropic is moving fast. Just 12 days after introducing Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful model, the company is back with another release — and this one may matter more for everyday users. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now live in […]

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Render raises $100M at $1.5B valuation as AI boom fuels cloud infrastructure shift

The AI coding surge is minting new winners in cloud infrastructure — and Render just joined the unicorn club. The San Francisco AI cloud startup said Tuesday it has raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, doubling down on […]

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OpenAI launches Prism AI workspace on Prism.app, a domain sold for $120K 10 days earlier

On January 17, NameBio reported that Prism.app had sold for $120,000. Ten days later, the domain began redirecting to prism.openai.com. Now, OpenAI has officially launched Prism, a free AI workspace built for scientific writing and collaboration, powered by GPT-5.2. The timing […]

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This Nuclear Engineer Turned a ‘Boring’ Niche into a $50M-a-Year Business

From Submarines to HOA Software Ben Currin didn’t plan to build software for homeowners’ associations. He trained as a nuclear engineer. He served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. His early career revolved around reactor systems and national […]

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SurrealDB raises $23M to fix AI agents’ memory, launches SurrealDB 3.0 as persistent memory engine

AI agents can write code, draft legal briefs, triage support tickets, and coordinate workflows. Ask them what happened three sessions ago, and things fall apart. Memory is emerging as one of the weakest links in autonomous systems. Agents lose context, […]

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Daffodil Health raises $16.3M in funding to tackle $1 trillion in healthcare administrative waste with AI

Healthcare eats nearly one out of every five dollars in the U.S. economy. A staggering share of that money never touches a doctor, nurse, or patient. It gets absorbed by paperwork, repricing vendors, audit layers, and a maze of middlemen […]

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Certivo raises $4M seed funding to bring AI-native compliance automation to global supply chains

Compliance rarely makes headlines. It sits in shared drives, buried in supplier emails and spreadsheets, surfacing only when something goes wrong. Certivo believes that the model no longer works. The New York–based startup has raised $4 million in seed funding […]

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Temporal raises $300M at $5B valuation to solve AI’s reliability problem at scale

AI agents can write code, book flights, and draft legal memos. But ask them to execute long-running tasks across distributed systems without breaking, and the cracks start to show. That gap is where Temporal sees its opportunity. The San Francisco […]

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Building a Hardware Startup? Plan for Physical Expansion Earlier Than You Think

Starting a hardware business feels alive. You build tangible solutions to everyday problems, and seeing your concept come to life brings joy unlike anything else. Still, beyond the rush of sketching prototypes or first builds, one key truth tends to […]

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China’s humanoid robots perform flawless Kung Fu at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala

If you still think Silicon Valley owns the future of robotics, China just made its counterargument in prime time. On February 16, 2026, during the annual Spring Festival Gala broadcast by China Media Group, humanoid robots stepped onto the country’s most-watched […]

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Over 90% of SaaS Projects Fail. Do This Instead

A founder spends six months building a product. The interface is clean. The onboarding feels intuitive. The feature set is carefully considered. Every edge case has been anticipated. Every pixel is aligned. When launch day finally arrives, there is a […]

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Nvidia just commoditized the voice AI stack with PersonaPlex-7B

NVIDIA just made every voice AI API a commodity with the launch of the new conversational AI model, PersonaPlex-7B. The open-source full-duplex model collapses ASR, LLM, and TTS into a single 7B system—shifting voice AI margins from APIs to GPUs.  […]

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Octopus Energy Generation invests $1 billion in California clean tech, expands U.S. energy footprint

California’s clean energy economy just pulled in another major foreign backer. Octopus Energy Generation is committing nearly $1 billion to California-based climate and energy projects, deepening its presence in the United States at a time when global capital is flowing into […]

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Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5, says new agentic AI model outperforms GPT-5.2, Claude and Gemini

Alibaba is turning up the heat in China’s AI race. On Monday, the e-commerce giant introduced Qwen 3.5, its latest large language model built for what it calls the “agentic AI era.” The company says the new model can complete complex […]

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OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI to lead next-gen personal agents

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger has joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents, marking a major step in the company’s push toward autonomous AI systems. Sam Altman announced Sunday that Steinberger is coming aboard OpenAI to drive what he described as […]

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“Something Big Is Happening”: Why the Viral AI Essay Is Capturing 82 Million Views and Sparking Global Anxiety

In December 2025, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a sobering estimate. Using a digital twin simulation of the U.S. workforce — modeling millions of workers across hundreds of occupations and tens […]

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ByteDance in talks to sell gaming unit Moonton in $6B–$7B deal to Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games

ByteDance is edging closer to a landmark deal that could redraw its gaming ambitions. The TikTok owner is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technology, the studio behind the hit mobile title Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia’s […]

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Driverless, but not human-free: Waymo pays DoorDash gig workers to close its car doors

Waymo’s robotaxis drive without a human behind the wheel. They scan intersections, predict traffic, and ferry passengers across city streets independently. Then something very human happens. A rider steps out and forgets to shut the door. The car stays put. […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 12, 2025

It’s Thursday, February 12, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect surging investor demand for enterprise-grade AI, foundational security infrastructure, and intelligent automation across physical and digital systems. As AI scales from […]

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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 conducted by Chainstory of nearly 3,000 crypto press releases highlights a structural issue that many readers, founders, and journalists have sensed for years but […]

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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. 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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Santé 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. 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 “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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