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Alibaba launches data center with 10,000 homegrown AI chips to challenge Nvidia’s dominance

China’s push to build its own AI stack is starting to take physical shape. Alibaba has teamed up with China Telecom to launch a new data center in southern China, powered entirely by chips designed in-house. At the center of […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – April 7 2025

It’s Tuesday, April 7, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a clear shift toward infrastructure-heavy bets across AI, defense, cybersecurity, and space systems. From hypersonic aircraft and AI-native networking to identity […]

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Minimus Appoints Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer to Lead Growth and Strategic Expansion

NEW YORK, NY – April 7, 2026, TechnologyWire – Minimus, a leading provider of hardened container images and secure container images designed to eliminate CVE risk, today announced the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly […]

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Golden Analytics emerges from stealth with $7M in funding to build AI-native BI platform that turns raw data into dashboards in seconds

The race to make sense of data just hit a reset. A new AI startup called Golden Analytics has stepped out of stealth with $7 million in seed funding from NEA and Madrona, with participation from Breakers. The pitch is simple […]

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Gartner finds only 28% of AI projects deliver ROI as most fail to deliver results

The promise of AI has been loud. The results, less so. A new report from Gartner puts a number to what many teams are starting to feel: most AI projects aren’t paying off. In infrastructure and operations, just 28% of […]

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AI networking startup Aria raises $125M to build ‘networks that think’ for data centers

The race to scale AI has exposed a quiet bottleneck: the networks that move data inside modern data centers. Aria Networks is stepping into that gap with fresh capital and a bold pitch. The Palo Alto AI networking startup said […]

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Intel joins Elon Musk’s $25B Terafab AI chip megafactory project

Intel just stepped into one of Elon Musk’s most ambitious bets yet—a $25 billion chip megafactory in Austin that aims to rewrite how AI hardware gets built. On Tuesday, Intel said it will join Musk’s Terafab project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, […]

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Europe’s Startup Story Is Getting More Serious, and Cybersecurity Is Leading It

For years, Europe’s startup ecosystem was often discussed in comparative terms. It was compared to Silicon Valley, assessed against U.S. funding levels, and often described as promising but incomplete. That framing is beginning to appear dated. Europe’s startup story is […]

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Jeff Bezos’s Project Prometheus poaches xAI co-founder from OpenAI in escalating AI talent battle

Jeff Bezos is quietly assembling something big—and he’s doing it by pulling talent straight out of the industry’s most influential AI labs. His stealth venture, Project Prometheus, has hired Kyle Kosic, a co-founder of xAI and a former engineer at […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – April 6 2025

It’s Monday, April 6, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a sharp surge in investor conviction around quantum computing, AI infrastructure, geospatial intelligence, and next-generation enterprise automation. As capital continues to […]

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OpenAI acquires TBPN for ‘low hundreds of millions’ to expand media influence

OpenAI just made a move that few expected. The company behind ChatGPT has acquired TBPN, a fast-rising tech talk show that built outsized influence in Silicon Valley with a relatively small audience. The price tag, according to The Wall Street […]

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DeepSeek V4 model will run on Huawei chips as China accelerates AI independence

China’s AI race just took a turn that could reshape how the industry thinks about chips, control, and independence. DeepSeek’s upcoming V4 model is expected to run on Huawei-designed processors, marking a clear break from reliance on U.S. hardware. The […]

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FinanceWire rolls out QR-based verification to combat fake corporate press releases

A single fake press release can move markets, damage reputations, and trigger chaos before anyone has time to react. That’s the risk FinanceWire is now trying to eliminate. The financial newswire platform announced a new integration with Certidox, introducing a […]

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Elon Musk asks SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok AI subscriptions to join $2 trillion IPO, NYT reports

Elon Musk is pushing deeper into AI—and this time, he’s tying it directly to one of the most anticipated IPOs in history. Banks lining up to help take SpaceX public are being asked to do more than structure the deal. […]

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Mercor confirms breach in LiteLLM supply-chain attack, exposing 4TB of candidate data and source code

Mercor has confirmed it was caught in a supply-chain attack tied to LiteLLM—an incident that may have exposed up to 4TB of sensitive data, including candidate records, internal code, and identity documents. The disclosure comes days after reports surfaced that […]

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Anthropic acquires AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400M to expand into drug discovery and clinical workflows

Anthropic is making a decisive move into biotech. The AI company has acquired Coefficient Bio, a young AI startup focused on applying AI to drug development and clinical strategy, in a deal valued at roughly $400 million, according to an […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – April 2, 2025

It’s Thursday, April 2, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds reflect a clear shift toward infrastructure that powers the next wave of AI, security, and advanced computing—from identity governance and physical access […]

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Amazon in talks to buy Globalstar in $9B deal to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink as satellite internet race heats up

Amazon is making a serious move in the race to bring the internet from space. The company is in talks to acquire Globalstar, a satellite communications firm, in a deal valued at around $9 billion, according to a Financial Times […]

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Amazon to add 3.5% FBA surcharge starting April 17, 2026, as fuel costs rise amid US–Iran war

Amazon sellers woke up to a new cost line item just weeks before peak summer demand. In a message sent through Seller Central, Amazon said it will begin adding a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees, starting April […]

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SpaceX files confidentially for IPO at $1.75 trillion valuation in a potential record-breaking offering

SpaceX is edging closer to the public markets — and if this goes through, it could become the biggest IPO the world has ever seen. SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – April 1, 2025

It’s Wednesday, April 1, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds underscore a sharp shift toward infrastructure powering the AI era—from nuclear-backed energy systems and grid-scale storage to next-gen semiconductors and orbital data […]

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PickMyBrain raises $2.1M to turn experts into AI ‘Digital Brains’ and monetize knowledge at scale

A new wave of AI startups is chasing a simple idea: people don’t want more content, they want better answers. PickMyBrain is betting that the best answers still come from real experts—and it just raised $2.1 million to prove it. […]

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Franklin Templeton to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital in crypto expansion push

Wall Street’s push into crypto just picked up more momentum. Franklin Templeton said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire 250 Digital, a cryptocurrency investment unit spun out of CoinFund, marking its latest step deeper into digital assets. The move lands […]

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Human API launches mobile app to let AI agents hire humans for paid tasks

A new kind of job market is starting to take shape, and it runs on prompts instead of postings. Human API just released a mobile app that lets AI agents assign work directly to people—and pay them for it. The […]

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