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This Texas high school promises $1M by graduation, or your tuition back

Daniel Levi Posted On April 23, 2026

A Texas private school already under scrutiny for replacing traditional classrooms with AI-powered learning is now making one of the boldest promises yet in education: make $1 million by graduation, or get your tuition back. Alpha School, founded in 2014 […]

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Rilian raises $17.5M to bring Agentic AI to cybersecurity and national defense

Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2026

War is changing faster than most security teams can keep up. Conflicts like the one in Ukraine have shown what happens when AI enters the fight: attacks move at machine speed, data floods in from every direction, and human analysts […]

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Mythos leaked: Anthropic’s “too dangerous” AI lands in Discord group days after limited release

Daniel Levi Posted On April 23, 2026

Anthropic kept its most sensitive AI system behind closed doors, warning it was too risky for public release. Days later, it was reportedly running inside a private Discord group. That’s the claim at the center of a new report from […]

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Sony AI’s ‘Ace’ robot beats elite table tennis players in real matches, signaling a leap in physical AI

Daniel Levi Posted On April 23, 2026

Sony just put a robot across the table—and it didn’t blink. In a series of live matchups that feel closer to science fiction than a lab demo, Sony AI’s table tennis robot, Ace, has beaten elite human players under official International […]

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Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure AI-driven software supply chains as enterprise demand surges

Daniel Levi Posted On April 23, 2026

Enterprises are being flooded with code—and much of it isn’t written by humans anymore. That shift is driving fresh urgency around one problem many teams can’t ignore: how to control, verify, and secure the software generated by AI coding tools. Cloudsmith, […]

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Top Tech News Today, April 23, 2026

Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2026

It’s Thursday, April 23, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. AI isn’t just racing ahead—it’s colliding with reality. In the past 24 hours, the story of […]

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Microsoft considered acquiring Cursor before SpaceX locked in $60 billion deal

Daniel Levi Posted On April 23, 2026

Yesterday, we wrote about how SpaceX secured a $60 billion option to acquire Cursor later this year, or pay $10 billion to continue their AI collaboration. Now, a new report from CNBC adds a twist to the story—and it points […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – April 22 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2026

It’s Wednesday, April 22, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds point to a deeper shift in where capital is flowing: away from standalone software and toward the infrastructure powering the next wave […]

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Nvidia-backed AI startup Vast Data raises $1B at $30B valuation as AI infrastructure boom accelerates

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2026

The companies racing to build AI are running into a hard limit: data. Training and running models at scale isn’t just about chips anymore. It’s about how fast you can move, store, and feed massive datasets across millions of GPUs. […]

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Courier Health raises $50M to fix broken patient journeys with AI in biopharma

Daniel Levi Posted On April 22, 2026

Patients are getting prescribed life-changing drugs—and then getting lost in the system. Delays in insurance approvals, disconnected support teams, and fragmented data often turn treatment into a slow, frustrating process. For biopharma companies, the breakdown doesn’t happen in the lab. It […]

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Schematic raises $6.5M to fix SaaS pricing for the AI era with real-time monetization on Stripe

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2026

SaaS pricing is breaking under the weight of AI. What used to be simple—charge per seat, bill monthly—no longer fits a world where usage spikes unpredictably, and costs rack up in real time. Schematic is stepping into that gap with […]

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SpaceX strikes deal for $60B option to buy Cursor later this year or pay $10B for ‘work together’ AI collaboration

Daniel Levi Posted On April 22, 2026

SpaceX is moving deeper into artificial intelligence with a high-stakes arrangement that puts a fast-rising coding startup at the center of its plans. The company said it has struck a deal with AI startup Cursor that gives it the right […]

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Top Tech News Today, April 22, 2026

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2026

It’s Wednesday, April 22, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. The AI race is entering a new phase—and it’s getting expensive, political, and deeply embedded in […]

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Tencent, Alibaba in talks to invest in DeepSeek at $20 billion-plus valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On April 22, 2026

Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek as the AI startup pursues its first outside funding round at a valuation north of $20 billion, according to a report by The Information. The company is seeking to raise […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – April 21 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On April 21, 2026

It’s Tuesday, April 21, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds span autonomy, clinical biotech, AI infrastructure, and industrial systems, with investors backing companies moving from experimentation to real-world deployment. From automated aircraft […]

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Meta to start tracking employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen activity to train AI models

Daniel Levi Posted On April 21, 2026

Meta is preparing to track how its employees use their computers, capturing keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen activity to train its AI models, according to an exclusive Reuters report. Internal memos reviewed by the news outlet show the company plans […]

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A&K Robotics raises $8M to bring self-driving mobility pods to airports, tackling accessibility and congestion

Nickie Louise Posted On April 21, 2026

Airports are built for movement. Yet for millions of travelers, getting from security to the gate can feel like the hardest part of the trip. Roughly 17% of the global population lives with mobility challenges. Requests for airport assistance are […]

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AI cooling startup Phononic explores $1.5B sale as infrastructure boom drives deal interest

Daniel Levi Posted On April 21, 2026

AI’s growth has exposed a simple truth: the biggest bottleneck in modern data centers isn’t always compute—it’s heat. As chips get denser and workloads intensify, keeping systems cool has turned into a high-stakes problem. That shift is now putting companies […]

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BreachLock Named Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation

CyberNewswire Posted On April 21, 2026

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Afresh raises $34M to bring AI to grocery supply chains and cut food waste

Nickie Louise Posted On April 21, 2026

Afresh just pulled in $34 million at a moment when grocery retailers are under pressure to fix one of their oldest problems: fresh food doesn’t wait. Every day, grocers make millions of calls on what to order, how much to […]

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