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Bitcoin price falls below $73,000, plummets to 15-month low as crypto market selloff continues

Bitcoin’s slide picked up speed over the last 24 hours, dragging the world’s largest cryptocurrency to a daily low of $73,073, its weakest level in roughly 15 months. The drop capped a bruising week that has erased more than 15% […]

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Skyryse raises $300M Series C at $1.15B valuation to advance autonomous flight systems

U.S. aviation startup Skyryse has crossed the billion-dollar mark after closing a $300 million Series C round, which values it at $1.15 billion. The round was led by Autopilot Ventures, with backing from returning investor Fidelity Management & Research Company, […]

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Notepad++ vulnerability: State-sponsored hackers hijacked Notepad++ and redirected update traffic for months

For nearly half a year, one of the world’s most widely used text editors quietly sat at the center of a supply-chain attack that few users ever saw coming. Notepad++ has confirmed that a suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group compromised […]

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Alphabet’s Waymo raises $16B at $126B valuation as robotaxi expansion accelerates

Alphabet just made its biggest bet yet on autonomous driving, and the market is paying attention. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, said Monday it raised a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $126 billion post-money, a sharp […]

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Algorithms And Digital Assets – AI’s Growing Role in Crypto Trading

The crypto market never sleeps. Unlike stock exchanges, which shut down at night and on weekends, the Bitcoin & Ethereum markets operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. While this constant movement offers new opportunities to those willing […]

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Alaffia Health raises $55M Series B to cut health plan claims waste with agentic AI

Health plans are buried under rising medical costs, tighter oversight, and a claims process that quietly burns through hundreds of billions of dollars each year. A growing number are betting that AI can helpβ€”if it doesn’t create new risk in […]

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RapidFort raises $42M Series A to eliminate software supply chain vulnerabilities at machine speed

AI has changed how software gets built, shipped, and attacked β€” all at once. The gap between when a vulnerability is disclosed and when it is exploited is shrinking, and security teams are running out of time to react. That […]

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PayPal names Enrique Lores as CEO, effective March 1, 2026

For years, PayPal has talked about moving faster. Now it’s the board that’s making a bet that leadership, not strategy slides, will finally change the pace. The payments giant announced today that Enrique Lores will take over as President and […]

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires AI startup xAI, targets $1.25 trillion IPO

Elon Musk just pulled his biggest corporate move yet, folding his artificial intelligence startup xAI into SpaceX as the combined company lines up for what could become one of the largest IPOs in history. In a blog post published Monday, […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 2, 2025

It’s Monday, February 2, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s financings reflect mounting investor momentum around autonomous systems, stablecoin infrastructure, and embodied AI. As AI-native platforms expand from cloud to robotics and financial […]

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OpenAI launches standalone Codex app for Mac, expands AI coding agents to free ChatGPT users

OpenAI rolled out a standalone app for its AI coding assistant, Codex, opening a new chapter in how developers work with autonomous software agents. The app is available on Apple computers, and for a limited time, Codex access is open […]

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BlueFive Capital closes $3 billion Onyx Fund to back AI and biotech in the US and Europe

BlueFive Capital has quietly locked in one of the largest new tech-focused funds to emerge from the Gulf this year. The Abu Dhabi-headquartered alternative investment firm said it has closed its Onyx Fund I at $3 billion, setting its sights […]

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GrubMarket raises $50M Series H at $4.5B valuation to expand AI-driven food supply chain platform

GrubMarket just closed another major funding round, and this one comes with a clear signal: the company is scaling from strength, not necessity. The AI-focused food tech company announced today that it has raised around $50 million in Series H […]

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Oracle moves to raise $50B via debt and equity for massive AI data center expansion amid AI spending scrutiny

Oracle is preparing one of the largest capital raises ever attempted by a software company, lining up as much as $50 billion in debt and equity to keep pace with demand for its cloud infrastructure. The plan, disclosed Sunday, lays […]

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OpenClaw goes viral as autonomous AI agents move from hype to real power

For years, AI agents lived in demos, research papers, and conference slides. They talked. They suggested. They waited. Then OpenClaw showed up and started doing. The open-source AI agent has surged from obscurity into one of the most talked-about projects […]

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Bitcoin crashes to $74,662.80, triggering $2.5 billion in liquidations across crypto markets

Bitcoin’s latest slide did not arrive quietly. Prices broke down fast, liquidity vanished, and leverage snapped. On Saturday, Bitcoin sank to $74,662.80, dropping more than 7% in a single session and setting off one of the largest liquidation events in […]

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Bitcoin drops to $77,091 for first time since April 2025 as crypto selloff erases $1 trillion in value

Bitcoin slipped to $77,091, its lowest level since April 2025, shaking confidence across crypto markets and triggering one of the sharpest pullbacks in months. The move dragged the broader market lower and erased more than $1 trillion in total crypto […]

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Best Tech Companies to Work for in 2026 (Including Top Startups)

With hundreds of thousands of companies globally, choosing where to work in tech has become far more complex than it was just a few years ago. After multiple hiring booms and corrections, job seekers are no longer optimizing solely for […]

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Former Google engineer convicted of stealing AI trade secrets in landmark U.S. espionage case

A federal jury in San Francisco has delivered a verdict that lands at the center of the global AI race, the Department of Justice announced Friday. On Thursday, jurors convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing sensitive AI trade […]

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10 boring businesses you can start this weekend (that actually make money)

Boring Business Ideas That Actually Make Money Every month, TechStartups covers hundreds of startups raising billions to build the β€œnext big thing.” AI models. Robotics platforms. New financial rails. The ambition is real, and the technology is impressive. At the […]

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SpaceX explores merger with Tesla or xAI as Elon Musk weighs empire consolidation

Elon Musk may be preparing his boldest corporate reshuffle yet, and this one could redraw the lines between rockets, electric cars, and artificial intelligence. SpaceX is quietly weighing deals that would bring one of Musk’s other companies under the same […]

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How Sweeps Turned a Niche Hobby Into a Mass Pastime

Why Sweepstakes Play Suddenly Feels Everywhere Not long ago, sweepstakes-style play lived on the fringes of the internet, passed around through niche forums and word-of-mouth recommendations. Today, it has moved firmly into the mainstream. These games now surface in app […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – January 29, 2025

It’s Thursday, January 29, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect deepening investor commitment to AI cloud infrastructure, chiplet interconnects, fintech orchestration, and scalable biotech. As competition accelerates in AI and advanced […]

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Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for close to $2B to boost audio and on-device intelligence

Apple just made one of its biggest bets yet on AI and audio, and it did it in its usual quiet way.Β The company has acquired Israeli artificial intelligence startup Q.ai, Apple confirmed Thursday. Financial terms were not officially disclosed, though […]

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ICE is using AI from Palantir and OpenAI for immigration enforcement, critics warn of surveillance overreach

ICE is quietly building one of the most advanced AI stacks in federal law enforcement, and the latest disclosure confirms it. According to an update to the Department of Homeland Security’s 2025 AI Use Case Inventory, U.S. Immigration and Customs […]

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KuCoin partners with Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar to advance trust and performance in crypto

Trust rarely announces itself. It shows up after years of pressure, scrutiny, and repeated proof. That idea sits at the center of KuCoin’s new partnership with Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar, a collaboration that links elite sport and global […]

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Sodot Launches Exchange API Key to Secure Automated Institutional Crypto Trading

Crypto exchange hacks rarely start on-chain. They start quietly, off-chain, with a leaked API key. That weak spot has already cost the industry billions. From Safe-related breaches tied to Bybit, to incidents involving Swissborg and Dimo, attackers keep exploiting the […]

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