Nowhere is change more visible than in how business owners choose where to build their companies. Cross-regional, sometimes cross-continental, moves for private purposes or to gain better market access are on the rise. Cities once thought central for startup life […]

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For years, wine and liquor retailers have operated in a corner of retail that most software companies quietly ignored. Regulations change by city block. Inventory behaves differently from standard consumer goods. A single bottle can belong to multiple pricing tiers […]

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It’s Thursday, February 12, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. The global tech landscape is shifting fast as AI moves from ambition to infrastructure, regulation tightens […]

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SoftBank made its boldest bet yet. The Japanese investment giant reported a $2.4 billion gain at its Vision Fund in the December quarter, driven by a sharp jump in the value of its stake in OpenAI, CNBC reports. The result marked […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Investors are deploying major capital into advanced robotics, industrial automation, AI infrastructure, and defense-grade software. From fusion-powered energy systems to real-time enterprise resilience, today’s […]

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Elon Musk moved quickly this week to reset xAI’s leadership, tightening control of the artificial intelligence startup just days after folding it into SpaceX and tying its future to one of the most ambitious IPO plans in tech history. The […]

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For years, humanoid robots have lived comfortably in demos, research labs, and keynote slides. Apptronik is trying to move them onto factory floors before the hype cycle runs out. The Austin-based startup has raised $520 million in new funding at […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and today’s global tech headlines reveal how quickly the AI era is reshaping infrastructure, markets, and power dynamics across the industry. From Microsoft experimenting with new power technologies for AI data centers to governments treating […]

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xAI is going to space. Its co-founders are walking out. The SpaceX merger deal was meant to signal lift-off. Instead, it’s exposing turbulence inside xAI. Just days after Elon Musk folded his artificial intelligence startup into SpaceX, two more xAI […]

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It’s Tuesday, February 10, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect sustained investor conviction in AI-native platforms, security infrastructure, and software systems being rebuilt for an agent-driven era. Capital continues to flow […]

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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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