Itβs been five years since we first examined the technology trends shaping the future of business and the digital economy. Much of what felt experimental at the time, from generative AI and autonomous systems to spatial computing and machine-driven infrastructure, [β¦]
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Artificial intelligence companies have spent the past three years burning cash at a pace Silicon Valley has rarely seen. Billions have gone into GPUs, data centers, talent wars, and training larger AI models. Profitability felt far away, almost irrelevant. Now, [β¦]
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Itβs Friday, May 22, 2026, and todayβs biggest tech stories show the same pattern from different angles: Washington is wrestling with how far to go on AI oversight, Anthropic is pushing deeper into Europe, AMD is bringing large AI models [β¦]
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The AI chip race is getting so intense that some of the biggest names in semiconductors and Big Tech are heading back to the classroom. Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys are joining forces to launch a $125 million [β¦]
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The venture capital landscape on Thursday, May 21, 2026, is defined by a flight to βinfrastructure utility.β As AI-accelerated development creates unprecedented volumes of software, the primary bottleneck has shifted from raw intelligence to secure, scalable orchestration. Todayβs deal flow [β¦]
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AI startups are running into two problems at once: too much AI-generated code and not enough computing power to run it. Modal Labs is betting it can solve both. The New York-based AI infrastructure startup has raised $355 million in [β¦]
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For years, the AI race has been framed around chips. Nvidia became the face of that boom. Startups and tech giants rushed to secure GPUs. Investors poured billions into AI infrastructure. Now another bottleneck is moving to the center of [β¦]
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AI-generated code is flooding into enterprise software faster than security teams can review it, and investors are betting that startups capable of spotting threats before they reach production could become one of the hottest categories in cybersecurity. That bet is [β¦]
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Itβs Thursday, May 21, 2026, and the global tech engine is running hotter than ever, with SpaceX gunning for a record IPO, AI infrastructure bets hitting new highs, quantum defenses going live worldwide, and cyber threats escalating at scale.Β Todayβs biggest [β¦]
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SpaceX is finally heading to Wall Street, and the numbers inside its long-awaited IPO filing show a company operating at a scale few businesses in history have ever attempted. The Elon Musk-led rocket-and-satellite giant filed publicly for what could become [β¦]
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The venture capital landscape on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, continues to reflect the cooling of speculative fervor in favor of pragmatic, enterprise-ready utility. Following the explosive capital concentration observed earlier this week, the current deal flow suggests a strategic pivot [β¦]
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Coins.ph is pushing crypto payments deeper into everyday commerce in the Philippines, adding support for Bitcoin and Ethereum to its QRPh payment system, which already lets users pay merchants nationwide with stablecoins like USDT. The move gives users access to [β¦]
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Mercury is betting the next wave of startup founders wonβt walk into a traditional bank branch. Theyβll build companies with AI copilots, launch products faster than ever, and expect their financial tools to move at the same speed. That bet [β¦]
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Institutional interest in tokenized real-world assets continues to grow, but one issue continues to slow broader adoption: privacy. Banks, asset managers, and regulated financial firms want the efficiency of blockchain-based settlement and tokenized finance. What they do not want is [β¦]
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Swiss neurotech startup Neurosoft Bioelectronics is betting that the future of brain-computer interfaces may look a lot softer and far less invasive than todayβs implants. The company announced Tuesday it has raised an oversubscribed $7.5 million seed round to develop [β¦]
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Intuit is cutting 3,000 jobs, or roughly 17% of its global workforce, as the TurboTax maker restructures around artificial intelligence and trims layers inside the company. The layoffs were disclosed in an internal memo sent Wednesday by CEO Sasan Goodarzi [β¦]
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Itβs Wednesday, May 20, 2026, and the AI arms race just kicked into overdrive. Google dropped its most ambitious agentic models yet at I/O, Big Tech is locked in a frantic scramble for chips, power, and talent, regulators blinked on [β¦]
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Google unveiled a wave of new Gemini-powered products and features at I/O 2026 on Tuesday, including AI models built to simulate the physical world, as the search giant pushes deeper into agentic AI across its ecosystem. At its annual developer [β¦]
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The venture capital landscape on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, is defined by an aggressive transition from model experimentation to industrial-scale deployment. This shift, colloquially termed the βAgentic Infrastructure Super-Cycle,β follows a historic first quarter where global venture investment surged to [β¦]
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Andrej Karpathy is heading back to the center of the AI race. The OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director announced Tuesday that he is joining Anthropic, adding another high-profile name to the growing battle for top AI talent between [β¦]
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For decades, physical retail operated with a blind spot that e-commerce solved years ago. Online retailers know exactly where every product is, what customers click on, what sits in carts, and what sells out first. Physical stores never had that [β¦]
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Europeβs race to build its own AI champions is moving deeper into factories, robotics, and semiconductor production. French startup Mistral AI said Tuesday it has acquired Austrian startup Emmi AI for an undisclosed amount, giving the company new technology focused [β¦]
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For years, Silicon Valley promised that AI would make workers more productive. Meta is now showing what that can look like inside one of the worldβs biggest tech companies, and thousands of employees are paying the price. Meta has begun [β¦]
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Google and Blackstone are making one of the biggest bets yet on the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The two companies announced a new AI infrastructure venture that could grow into a $25 billion push to build data centers packed [β¦]
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Itβs Tuesday, May 19, 2026, and the AI infrastructure gold rush just went nuclear. Wall Street is writing billion-dollar checks, utilities are merging at record scale, and Big Tech is slashing headcount to fund the next leap in compute. From [β¦]
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Artificial intelligence has created a new race for computing infrastructure, and a startup called Armada wants to bring AI processing far beyond traditional data centers. The San Francisco startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $230 million in Series B [β¦]
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Startups often focus on growth, funding and product speed, but trust usually decides whether early momentum lasts. Before a company can scale, users need to believe the team can deliver consistently. Investors, partners and customers may forgive a young company [β¦]
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Itβs Monday, May 18, 2026, and weβre back with todayβs top startup and tech funding news. Todayβs rounds spotlight growing investor appetite for enterprise AI agents, quantum networking, edge AI infrastructure, defense technology, and next-generation automation platforms. As companies race [β¦]
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