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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 18, 2025

It’s Wednesday, March 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight growing investor urgency around autonomous cybersecurity, cancer immunotherapy, and AI observability for agent-based systems. As AI-native infrastructure becomes critical to sectors […]

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Meta shuts down Metaverse after $80 billion loss, ends Horizon Worlds era

Meta just pulled the plug on its metaverse dream, drawing a line under one of the most ambitious bets in tech history. The company said Tuesday it will shut down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social platform once positioned at […]

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The Role of Mobile Banking in Modern Personal Finance

There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when managing your money meant an actual trip to a brick-and-mortar building. You’d have to plan your entire afternoon around bank hours, wait in those slow-moving lines, and talk […]

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Ex-Anthropic researchers launch Mirendil, target $175M at $1B valuation for AI-powered scientific discovery

A new wave of AI startups is taking shape, and Mirendil is stepping into it with serious ambition—and serious backing. Founded by former Anthropic researchers, the San Francisco-based startup is already in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 […]

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Dell lays off 11,000 employees, spends $569M on severance as AI shift accelerates job cuts, filing shows

Dell just made one thing clear: the AI boom is not saving jobs—it’s reshaping them. In its latest annual filing, the company confirmed it cut about 11,000 employees in fiscal 2026, trimming roughly 10% of its workforce. The move came with […]

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Meta’s AI startup Manus launches desktop app that lets agents control your computer

Meta is moving its AI ambitions a step closer to your personal machine. The company’s newly acquired startup Manus has released a desktop application that puts its general-purpose AI agent directly on users’ laptops. Until now, Manus lived in the cloud, […]

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Microsoft threatens legal action over OpenAI’s $50B Amazon cloud deal

The AI alliance that helped power Microsoft’s rise is now at risk of unraveling. Microsoft is weighing legal action against OpenAI over a $50 billion cloud agreement with Amazon—a deal that could redraw the balance of power in the infrastructure behind […]

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KuCoin launches Tomorrowland Winter 2026 activations, bringing ‘Guided Into the Future’ to the Alps

KuCoin is heading to the French Alps with a clear message: crypto wants a place in culture, not just on trading screens. The exchange is rolling out its first on-site activations at Tomorrowland Winter 2026, marking the start of a […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 17, 2025

It’s Tuesday, March 17, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight accelerating investor interest in embedded fintech, automated cybersecurity, programmable therapeutics, and AI-native infrastructure for personalization and compliance. From reshaping how enterprises […]

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USA₮ Turns Times Square Green With St. Patrick’s Day Brand Activation Introducing Digital Dollar Payments

Lugano, Switzerland, March 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire   On St. Patrick’s Day, as 2 million spectators flood the streets of New York City, USA₮, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, is taking over Times Square. The brand activation combines synchronized digital […]

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World Launches AgentKit That Leverages x402 Protocol to Power Human-Backed AI Agents

World, the network responsible for the proof of humanity solution World ID, has just unveiled a major new product. AgentKit is targeted at developers, but web users will be the primary beneficiaries of the technology once it’s integrated into apps […]

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Bybit EU integrates PayPal, offering instant fiat access to crypto across EEA markets

For many people across Europe, the hardest part of getting into crypto isn’t picking a token. It’s figuring out how to move money in and out safely. Bybit EU is trying to remove that friction by bringing a familiar name […]

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Mastercard to acquire BVNK in $1.8B deal to link stablecoins with traditional payment rails

Mastercard is making one of its clearest bets yet on where payments are headed next. The company said Tuesday it plans to acquire stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK in a deal valued at up to $1.8 billion, signaling a deeper push into […]

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Poland-based Surveily raises €2.5M Series A to bring edge AI to industrial safety

For years, industrial safety has relied on manual checks, delayed reporting, and systems that react only after something goes wrong. That gap is still costing companies and workers dearly. A startup out of Poland thinks it can change that by […]

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R1 Therapeutics launches with $77.5M Series A to advance first-in-class kidney disease treatment AP306

For decades, hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease has been treated with therapies that often fall short. Now, a new biotech startup, R1 Therapeutics, is aiming to change that with fresh funding and a different approach. The company has launched from […]

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TrueAI Researchers Suggest Another Safety Layer for Autonomous AI Agents

For a while, the big worry around AI trading bots was easy to picture. They could read the market wrong. They could spit out bad analysis. They could tell users to make a move they should never make. Now a […]

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Alibaba launches Wukong AI agent platform to unify enterprise workflows across Slack, Teams, and WeChat

Alibaba is making its next move in artificial intelligence with a product that signals where enterprise software is headed. On Tuesday, the Chinese tech giant introduced Wukong, a new agentic AI platform built to help businesses run multiple AI agents […]

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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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