For years, Silicon Valley poured money into software that optimized desks, dashboards, and digital workflows. One industry that never made the shortlist was waste management. The trucks kept rolling. The paper route sheets stayed. The billing errors piled up quietly. […]

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AI workloads are moving from experiments to production, and the data stacks behind them are being tested in real time. That shift is driving a new wave of infrastructure spending, and Matia is one of the companies catching it early. […]

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It’s Tuesday, February 10, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. The global race to build and control AI infrastructure is accelerating, and the consequences are rippling far beyond Silicon Valley. In the past 24 hours […]

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Databricks just pulled in one of the largest private financings the data software sector has ever seen, locking up $5 billion in equity and another $2 billion in fresh debt capacity at a $134 billion valuation. The numbers land at […]

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It’s Monday, February 9, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect surging investor conviction in foundational AI models, physical automation, and AI-native enterprise infrastructure. As next-gen platforms blur the line between software […]

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Apollo Global Management is closing in on another multibillion-dollar bet tied to the race for AI compute, one that puts Nvidia chips at the center of Elon Musk’s expanding xAI footprint. According to a report from The Information, Apollo is […]

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After months of pressure from rivals and growing doubts across Silicon Valley, CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT has “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth.” The message posted on Slack late last week signaled that OpenAI believes the slide […]

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Firmus Technologies, an Australian artificial intelligence infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, has secured a $10 billion debt funding package led by Blackstone, with participation from Coatue Capital, the company reported on Monday. The financing ranks among the largest private credit […]

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Playnance did not arrive with fanfare. It arrived with a live system already operating at scale. After operating quietly for years, the Web3 infrastructure and consumer platform company is now stepping into public view, revealing how it has been onboarding […]

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Yesterday’s sharp move in Bitcoin did not happen in isolation. The slide from $70,000 into the mid-$60,000s, driven by heavy ETF outflows, marked a shift in tone across risk assets. The selling was broad, fast, and unforgiving — a reminder […]

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For much of the past decade, blockchain adoption has been framed through the lens of speculation. Price charts dominated the conversation, while real-world usage felt secondary. That narrative no longer reflects how startups are actually using blockchain in 2026. What’s […]

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It’s Friday, February 6, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. AI’s expansion is no longer theoretical. It is now reshaping supply chains, enterprise software, consumer hardware, […]

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The next big fight in artificial intelligence is not happening inside a model or a lab. It’s playing out on Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok. Some of the largest tech companies in the world are now paying creators massive sums […]

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It’s Thursday, February 5, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect growing investor conviction in AI model infrastructure, legaltech automation, humanoid robotics, and real-time climate systems. As enterprise demand for transparency, speed, […]

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A quiet release from Anthropic set off one of the most violent software selloffs in years, erasing roughly $285 billion in market value across software, legal tech, financial services, and asset management. The trigger was not a new model. It […]

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