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AI now does 50% of Salesforce’s work, CEO Marc Benioff calls it a “labor revolution”

Nickie Louise Posted On June 26, 2025

Salesforce is leaning hard into artificial intelligence—and it’s already transforming how the company runs. Speaking with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, CEO Marc Benioff said AI now handles between 30% and 50% of the company’s workload. “All of us have to get […]

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Elon Musk bans hashtags in ads on, sparking debate over the platform’s future

Nickie Louise Posted On June 26, 2025

Starting June 27, 2025, advertisers on will no longer be able to use hashtags in their campaigns. Elon Musk, the platform’s owner, has banned them from ads, saying they’re visually unappealing and clutter the platform. It’s a classic Musk move—decisive, […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – June 25, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On June 25, 2025

It’s Wednesday, June 25, 2025, and the midweek tech funding push is strong. Today’s deals reveal where the smartest money is going—AI infrastructure, prediction markets, developer tools, and privacy-first encryption. From bold Series C plays to scrappy seed rounds, startups […]

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Prediction market startup Kalshi hits $2B valuation with $185M raise led by Paradigm

Nickie Louise Posted On June 25, 2025

Kalshi, the prediction market platform where users trade on real-world events, has landed a $185 million funding round, pushing its valuation to $2 billion. CEO Tarek Mansour shared the news on X on Wednesday. The round was led by Paradigm, […]

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InsurTech startup ZestyAI raises $15M to scale its AI-powered risk analytics platform

Nickie Louise Posted On June 25, 2025

ZestyAI, an insurtech startup that helps property and casualty insurers assess risk using AI, just landed a $15 million credit facility from CIBC Innovation Banking. The new capital gives the company more financial headroom as it pushes for broader adoption […]

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AI can now train on copyrighted books without author permission, U.S. judge rules in favor of Anthropic

Nickie Louise Posted On June 25, 2025

In a big legal win for the AI industry, a U.S. federal judge has ruled that Anthropic is allowed to train its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books, without needing permission from authors. The decision, issued late Monday by U.S. […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – June 24, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2025

It’s Tuesday, June 24, 2025, and the capital wave shows no signs of slowing. From AI-powered diagnostics to global transportation and ice pops in India, today’s funding spree spans industries, continents, and check sizes. Here’s today’s tech funding roundup, Leading the pack […]

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Gemist raises $6M to modernize $300B jewelry industry with real-time customization tools

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2025

For all its glitz, the $300 billion global jewelry industry is stuck in the past. It’s often easier to customize a $50,000 car online than it is to design a $5,000 engagement ring. Most customers still deal with in-person meetings, […]

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Polymarket is raising $200 million at a valuation of over $1 billion for the world’s biggest prediction market

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2025

Polymarket, the biggest blockchain-based prediction market, is reportedly wrapping up a $200 million funding round that would push its valuation north of $1 billion, The Information and CoinDesk reported. The round, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, includes $50 million […]

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Goldman Sachs and Citadel back crypto startup Digital Asset in $135M funding round to tokenize Wall Street

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2025

Crypto startup Digital Asset has secured a $135 million funding round, pulling in big names from traditional finance—including Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, and Citadel Securities—as the push to bring blockchain tech to Wall Street continues to pick up steam. The […]

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Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – June 23, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2025

It’s Monday, June 23, 2025. Hope you had a great weekend. We’re back with your daily rundown of tech funding moves. Today’s funding slate is anything but quiet. From $2 billion seed bets to fresh capital fueling DeepTech in AI, […]

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PhysicsX raises $135M to bring AI-first engineering to aerospace, auto, and energy

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2025

PhysicsX, a London-based startup building AI software for advanced manufacturing, has raised $135 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Atomico, with backing from Temasek, Siemens, Applied Materials, and the July Fund. Existing investors including General Catalyst, […]

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AI startup Snowcap raises $23M in funding to build superconducting chips that could outperform nvidia

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2025

Snowcap Compute, an AI startup working on next-gen computing chips built with superconductors, just raised $23 million in funding—and scored a high-profile addition to its board: former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Cambium Capital and Vsquared Ventures also joined the funding […]

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Apple in early talks to acquire AI startup Perplexity

Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2025

Apple is exploring a potential bid for Perplexity AI, the fast-growing startup aiming to rewire how people search for information online, Bloomberg reported Friday. The talks are still preliminary. Adrian Perica, Apple’s head of M&A, has reportedly discussed the idea […]

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Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab emerges from stealth with $2B seed, $10B valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2025

Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, has raised $2 billion for her new AI venture, Thinking Machines Lab, just six months after launching it. The eye-popping round values the company at $10 billion—an unusually high number for a startup […]

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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI boosts bond yields to 12.5% in $5B debt raise amid weak investor demand

Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2025

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is increasing the yield on its $5 billion debt offering, signaling a cautious response from investors, Reuters reported on Friday. The update follows a Bloomberg report earlier this week that xAI is also seeking to […]

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Meta hires Safe Superintelligence execs after CEO Ilya Sutskever rejects $32B acquisition offer

Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2025

Less than a week after Meta hired Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang as part of a $14.3 billion deal, Mark Zuckerberg has turned his attention to another high-profile AI startup: Safe Superintelligence, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing sources […]

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Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – June 19, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On June 19, 2025

It’s Thursday, June 19, 2025. Just one more day to Friday. Here’s today’s tech funding roundup, tracking the capital pouring into startups reshaping how we build, diagnose, ship, pay, and protect. Today’s deals spanned enterprise AI, borderless finance, open-source intelligence, […]

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Sifflet raises $18M to power AI with trusted data as demand for observability soars

Nickie Louise Posted On June 19, 2025

Sifflet, the AI-native data observability startup, just secured $18 million in fresh funding. The round was led by existing backers EQT Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners, with Capmont Technology joining in as a new investor. The money comes on the […]

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Microsoft to lay off thousands more workers just a month after cutting 6,000 jobs

Nickie Louise Posted On June 19, 2025

Microsoft is preparing another round of layoffs, this time targeting thousands of workers, with sales teams likely to be among those affected, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The cuts are expected to be announced in early July, after […]

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