Meta is preparing a new round of layoffs, setting May 20 as the starting point for cuts that will affect roughly 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its global workforce, according to an exclusive report from Reuters. The move marks […]

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Cursor is back in the spotlight—and this time, the numbers are hard to ignore. The AI coding startup is in talks to raise at least $2 billion in fresh funding at a $50 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar […]

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DeepSeek is preparing to raise outside capital for the first time, a move that could value the Chinese AI startup at more than $10 billion as the cost of building advanced models continues to climb. The company, which shook Silicon […]

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Flock Safety is growing fast. The backlash against it is growing just as quickly. The Atlanta-based police tech startup has reached an $8.4 billion valuation following a recent funding round, according to a publicly filed corporate charter and people familiar […]

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It’s Friday, April 17, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. The AI boom is hitting its next phase. What started as a wave of AI breakthroughs […]

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The AI boom is entering a new phase, and the shift is happening faster than many expected. The race is no longer just about training bigger models. It’s about running them efficiently at scale. That shift is pulling billions of […]

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It’s Thursday, April 16, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds reflect a clear shift toward AI-native infrastructure, financial operating systems, and domain-specific platforms that move beyond surface-level automation into core workflows. From […]

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Every morning, millions of families rely on a system that still runs as it did decades ago—late buses, missing updates, and little visibility into where children are or when they’ll arrive. Zum is betting that doesn’t have to be the […]

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Tel Aviv, Israel, April 16, 2026 — FinanceWire: FinanceWire has entered into a strategic partnership with Symex Economics to bring targeted financial news distribution and investor engagement tools to the French market, opening a direct channel between Euronext-listed companies and global […]

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Charles Schwab plans to roll out direct spot trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum through a new platform called Schwab Crypto, the company said Thursday. The launch marks a clear shift from indirect exposure to full ownership inside its ecosystem. The […]

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Wealth management is getting rebuilt from the inside out, and the shift is happening faster than most firms expected. Wealth.com, a platform focused on estate and tax planning, has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series B round to power […]

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It’s Thursday, April 16, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Over the past 24 hours, one theme has kept coming into focus: the future of […]

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A routine Navy exercise off the California coast turned into a quiet stress test of the Pentagon’s tech stack. When SpaceX’s Starlink network went down during a global outage last August, more than two dozen unmanned surface vessels lost contact […]

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It’s Wednesday, April 15, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a clear shift toward AI infrastructure, agentic systems, next-generation therapeutics, and space-based intelligence. As capital continues to concentrate around platforms that […]

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The race to control AI infrastructure is shifting fast, and Parasail wants to sit right in the middle of it. The AI startup says it has raised $32 million in Series A funding, bringing its total to $42 million. The […]

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Snap is cutting deeper into its workforce as artificial intelligence takes a larger role inside the company. Snap Inc. said Wednesday it will lay off about 1,000 employees, roughly 16% of its full-time staff, marking one of its largest job […]

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Extreme heat is no longer a seasonal inconvenience. It’s becoming a structural problem for buildings, roads, and public assets across the U.S. At the same time, wildfire risk continues to climb, pushing infrastructure owners to rethink how they protect what […]

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Allbirds is attempting one of the wildest reinventions in recent memory. The sneaker company that once became a Silicon Valley favorite, reached a valuation of more than $4 billion, and turned sustainability into a brand identity, is now abandoning shoes […]

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Wayve just pulled more of the semiconductor world into its orbit—and it’s not a vanity move. The London-based autonomous driving startup said Wednesday it secured $60 million in fresh backing from Qualcomm, AMD, and Arm Holdings, adding three of the […]

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