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Meta shuts down Metaverse after $80 billion loss, ends Horizon Worlds era

Meta just pulled the plug on its metaverse dream, drawing a line under one of the most ambitious bets in tech history. The company said Tuesday it will shut down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social platform once positioned at […]

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The Role of Mobile Banking in Modern Personal Finance

There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when managing your money meant an actual trip to a brick-and-mortar building. You’d have to plan your entire afternoon around bank hours, wait in those slow-moving lines, and talk […]

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Meta’s AI startup Manus launches desktop app that lets agents control your computer

Meta is moving its AI ambitions a step closer to your personal machine. The company’s newly acquired startup Manus has released a desktop application that puts its general-purpose AI agent directly on users’ laptops. Until now, Manus lived in the cloud, […]

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Poland-based Surveily raises €2.5M Series A to bring edge AI to industrial safety

For years, industrial safety has relied on manual checks, delayed reporting, and systems that react only after something goes wrong. That gap is still costing companies and workers dearly. A startup out of Poland thinks it can change that by […]

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R1 Therapeutics launches with $77.5M Series A to advance first-in-class kidney disease treatment AP306

For decades, hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease has been treated with therapies that often fall short. Now, a new biotech startup, R1 Therapeutics, is aiming to change that with fresh funding and a different approach. The company has launched from […]

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Alibaba launches Wukong AI agent platform to unify enterprise workflows across Slack, Teams, and WeChat

Alibaba is making its next move in artificial intelligence with a product that signals where enterprise software is headed. On Tuesday, the Chinese tech giant introduced Wukong, a new agentic AI platform built to help businesses run multiple AI agents […]

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China’s AI defense startup claims it intercepted B-2 stealth bomber signals during U.S. strike on Iran

A Chinese defense tech startup says its artificial intelligence system picked up radio signals from U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers during a strike on Iran, a claim that, if verified, could raise new questions about the limits of stealth warfare. […]

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Eileen raises $1M pre-Seed to bring AI-powered shelf intelligence to CPG brands

Walk into any grocery store, and you’ll see millions spent on packaging, branding, and promotions competing for attention on a crowded shelf. Yet many consumer brands still have little visibility into what happens once their products reach retail. Shelves run […]

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Playnance partners with KGeN to bring Web3 gaming ecosystem to 53 million players across 60 countries

Web3 gaming projects spend huge amounts of time chasing distribution. Playnance may have found a shortcut. The Web3 infrastructure company behind the G Coin ecosystem announced a strategic partnership with KGeN, a distribution protocol focused on gaming, AI, DeFi, and consumer […]

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