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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 16, 2025

It’s Monday, March 16, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight surging investor conviction in core AI infrastructure, industrial robotics, biotech platforms, and tokenized financial systems. As competition in generative AI intensifies, […]

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China’s AI defense startup claims it intercepted B-2 stealth bomber signals during U.S. strike on Iran

A Chinese defense tech startup says its artificial intelligence system picked up radio signals from U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers during a strike on Iran, a claim that, if verified, could raise new questions about the limits of stealth warfare. […]

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Eileen raises $1M pre-Seed to bring AI-powered shelf intelligence to CPG brands

Walk into any grocery store, and you’ll see millions spent on packaging, branding, and promotions competing for attention on a crowded shelf. Yet many consumer brands still have little visibility into what happens once their products reach retail. Shelves run […]

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Encyclopaedia Britannica sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles to train its AI models

The long fight over AI training data just pulled in one of the most recognizable names in publishing. Encyclopaedia Britannica and its dictionary arm, Merriam-Webster, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Manhattan, accusing the company of using […]

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Playnance partners with KGeN to bring Web3 gaming ecosystem to 53 million players across 60 countries

Web3 gaming projects spend huge amounts of time chasing distribution. Playnance may have found a shortcut. The Web3 infrastructure company behind the G Coin ecosystem announced a strategic partnership with KGeN, a distribution protocol focused on gaming, AI, DeFi, and consumer […]

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Elon Musk says xAI “was not built right” as co-founders exit and company undergoes major rebuild

Elon Musk rarely admits that one of his companies started on the wrong footing. This week, he did exactly that. In a post on X, Musk acknowledged that his artificial intelligence company xAI is being rebuilt from scratch after early design […]

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Frore Systems hits $1.64B valuation after $143M funding to cool AI chips as AI data centers overheat

The AI boom has created a quiet crisis inside data centers. Chips are getting faster, racks are getting denser, and heat is piling up. Cooling, once treated as background plumbing, is now one of the biggest limits on how much […]

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Meta plans massive layoffs of up to 20% of the workforce to offset soaring AI costs

Meta is planning another major round of layoffs as it ramps up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Three people familiar with internal discussions told Reuters that Meta is weighing job cuts that could affect 20% or more of its workforce, a […]

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Sam Altman warns AI could upend jobs and the economy sooner than expected

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered a blunt message this week: artificial intelligence is moving into the workforce far faster than most people expect, and the shift could reshape jobs and the broader economy sooner than many leaders are ready for. […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 12, 2025

It’s Thursday, March 12, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds reflect mounting investor conviction in legal AI, humanoid robotics, multi-wavelength photonics, and next-gen customer service agents. As AI integration deepens across enterprise, […]

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NickAI launches first agentic operating system for AI trading agents across crypto, stocks, and prediction markets

Financial markets are entering a new phase where software agents can analyze data and place trades without constant human oversight. NickAI, a new AI startup focused on automated trading infrastructure, believes that shift is accelerating. Today, NickAI made its public […]

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VeryAI raises $10M to stop deepfakes and AI fraud with smartphone palm-scan identity verification

The internet is starting to lose a basic signal of trust: proof that the person on the other side of the screen is actually human. Generative AI can now create realistic faces, voices, and entire identities within minutes. Fraudsters are […]

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Israel’s cybersecurity startup Onyx Security emerges from stealth with $40M to secure the next wave of AI agents

Artificial intelligence agents are moving from research labs into corporate systems at an astonishing pace. Companies now let software agents read data, make decisions, and execute tasks across internal platforms. That shift creates a new security problem that few organizations […]

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Perplexity takes on OpenClaw with ‘Personal Computer,’ a local AI agent system built on Mac mini

AI assistants keep getting smarter. The next fight is about where they live. Perplexity just made its move with Personal Computer, a local version of its Computer agent system that runs on a dedicated Mac mini. The pitch is simple: […]

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Atlassian lays off 10% of staff, or 1,600 employees, as AI reshapes software Work

The shift AI is bringing to the tech industry is starting to show up in payroll. Enterprise software giant Atlassian announced it will cut about 1,600 jobs, roughly 10% of its global workforce, as the company redirects resources into artificial […]

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Nvidia invests $2B in AI cloud startup Nebius as AI data center race intensifies

The AI infrastructure race just got another jolt. Nvidia said Wednesday it will invest $2 billion in AI cloud company Nebius, taking a stake of about 8.3% as the chip giant deepens its push into the companies building the backbone of […]

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