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msn.com Brief 11h ago · 1 min read
Hundreds of startup founders competed for a $475,000 grand prize at Venture Atlanta, an annual conference that connects entrepreneurs with investors.
techcrunch.com Brief 11h ago · 1 min read
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has selected the five startups that will compete in the final round of its Startup Battlefield pitch competition.
Brief 12h ago · 1 min read
Skyroot Aerospace is pursuing $300 million in funding through two separate rounds, each targeting different investor groups at distinct valuations.
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Brief 12h ago · 1 min read
The legal actions, reported by SiliconANGLE, focus on claims that OpenAI’s marketing and product safety practices failed to meet standards.
Brief 12h ago · 1 min read
Scottsdale-based Dapta has raised $6 million to expand its AI sales agents across the U.S. and Latin America.
Brief 13h ago · 1 min read
A coalition of chipmakers, cloud providers.
siliconangle.com Brief 13h ago · 1 min read
Supermicro is urging customers and investors to judge AI factories by how quickly they become operational rather than by the number of GPUs they contain.
Brief 13h ago · 1 min read
Intero Biosystems has begun selling lab-grown human intestines to pharmaceutical companies.
Brief 14h ago · 1 min read
Microsoft is adopting composable memory architectures in its AI data centers, according to SiliconANGLE.
Brief 14h ago · 1 min read
Shares of Oracle and DigitalOcean dropped today after a post on X drew attention to CoreWeave’s debt.
Brief 14h ago · 1 min read
Elon Musk’s AI venture SpaceXSI has unveiled Grok Voice 3.0, a new version of its speech-to-speech model for voice agents.
Brief 14h ago · 1 min read
Colossal Biosciences has unveiled an AI platform to accelerate its de-extinction projects, and a new fund has been launched to back startups using the technology.
geekwire.com Brief 14h ago · 1 min read
LinkedIn’s latest “Top Startups in Seattle” list includes companies headquartered outside the region.
Brief 14h ago · 1 min read
The funding arrives as some enterprises explore AI agents, which may benefit from real-time data access.
betakit.com Brief 15h ago · 1 min read
Reports suggest Character.ai has secured new funding at a valuation noticeably below its previous high.
Brief 16h ago · 1 min read
Fintech funding in the Asia Pacific region fell to $4.6 billion across 350 deals in the first half of 2026, down from the previous year’s comparable period.
Brief 16h ago · 2 min read
Dell Technologies is marketing a 13-to-1 server refresh ratio to enterprises, arguing that agentic AI workloads are driving renewed demand for general-purpose processing.
Brief 16h ago · 2 min read
At TechSparks 2026, Karnataka’s Minister for Greater Bengaluru Development, Krishna Byre Gowda, announced plans to expand the city’s metro network to 400 km by 2037.
Brief 16h ago · 1 min read
Berlin-based TimeTeller has launched a saliva test kit that lets consumers map their circadian rhythm at home, TechCrunch reported.
Brief 17h ago · 1 min read
Tonbo Imaging, the defence technology startup, has raised ₹255 crore from anchor investors ahead of its ₹852 crore initial public offering.
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