Most robotics startups promise what factories might look like years from now. Walden Robotics says its robots are already on the job. The company emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $300 million seed round, valuing the startup at $1.1 […]

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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seeking a 500 billion yuan ($74 billion) valuation in a new fundraising round as it quietly prepares for a mainland stock market debut, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions. The move comes only […]

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Artificial intelligence is creating a new problem for Wall Street. AI can generate emails, marketing campaigns, research, and trading activity in seconds. Compliance teams still have to review all of it. That gap is growing, and legacy compliance software was […]

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The race to build humanity’s future beyond Earth is creating a new generation of startups. TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by two former SpaceX engineers, has raised $115 million from a group of high-profile investors to bring SpaceX-style speed […]

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It’s Tuesday, July 14, 2026, and the tech world is no longer just building AI — it’s actively defending against it, racing to control it, and feeling its real-world friction. AI’s next phase is no longer being shaped by model launches […]

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Flex has raised $70 million in fresh funding at a valuation of about $1.2 billion, marking another big milestone for the AI fintech startup as it pushes to become the primary financial platform for mid-sized businesses. The funding arrives alongside […]

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The stock has fallen from a post-IPO high of $225.64 to around its $135 offering price, wiping out roughly $1 trillion in market value as investors reassess the company’s heavy spending on Starship and Starlink. The market’s excitement over SpaceX’s […]

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Citation Capital has closed its first private equity fund with $1.2 billion in investable capital, marking one of the largest first-time buyout funds raised in the past decade and setting a new record as the largest female-founded buyout fund ever […]

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It’s Monday, July 13, 2026, and the global tech ecosystem is navigating a pivotal stretch where AI hardware ambitions, frontier model releases, and regulatory pushback are colliding in real time. Meta is moving its custom silicon into production, OpenAI has […]

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The German startup’s latest funding round underscores growing investor confidence in AI-powered defense companies as Europe ramps up spending on military technology and sovereign capabilities. European defense startup Helsing has raised $1.8 billion in fresh funding, pushing its valuation to […]

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Apple has sued OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using its trade secrets to speed up its push into consumer hardware after hiring hundreds of former Apple employees. The lawsuit marks a sharp escalation in the rivalry between the two […]

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Circle has cleared a major regulatory hurdle that could reshape its role in digital finance. The company said Friday it received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to operate as a national trust bank, […]

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It’s Friday, July 10, 2026, and the AI frontier just got a serious jolt. In the past 24 hours, OpenAI dropped its most advanced model family yet after U.S. government clearance, Meta green-lit production of its own custom AI chip, […]

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Meta has opened public developer access to Muse Spark 1.1 just days after OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6, intensifying the race among leading AI labs to win developers with more capable coding models, agentic AI, and lower-cost APIs. The release marks Meta’s clearest […]

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