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Hugging Face explores sale at $13 billion valuation, nearly triple its 2023 value

Nickie Louise Posted On August 24, 2026

Hugging Face is exploring a potential sale at a valuation of $13 billion or more, nearly three times what the AI startup was worth just three years ago. “Hugging Face has been fielding M&A interest for a deal worth at […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 24, 2026: Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Hugging Face, Nvidia, XPeng & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 24, 2026

It’s Monday, August 24, 2026, and the tech world is moving faster than a humanoid robot clocking a sub-Bolt 100-meter dash. From record-smashing machines in Beijing and multibillion-dollar AI funding frenzies in Hong Kong and Tokyo to age-ban legislation in […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 21, 2026: Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI Tesla & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 21, 2026

It’s Friday, August 21, 2026. In the last 24 hours, regulators opened Las Vegas streets to thousands of robotaxis, chipmakers lined up tens of billions in fresh AI debt, Nvidia moved on a key model-building startup, Tesla quietly killed its […]

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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 20, 2026: Aramco Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Google, Y Combinator & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2026

Today’s funding activity has a clear message: investors are paying for bottlenecks. The largest verified deal in the past 12 hours is Muon Space’s $250 million Series C, a bet on satellite manufacturing, communications capacity, dual-use space systems, and eventually […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 20, 2026: Amazon, Google, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Siemens, Stripe, TDK & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2026

It’s Thursday, August 20, 2026, and the past 24 hours just rewrote the map of global tech power: $7.5 billion AI deals, humanoid robots minting $50 billion fortunes overnight, OpenAI locking in its IPO clock, and AI-powered cyberattacks probing the […]

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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 19, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, ICONIQ, JPMorgan Chase, Prosus & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2026

Venture capital’s message over the past twelve hours is unusually coherent: investors are paying up for companies that control hard-to-replicate systems, data, infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, or regulated distribution, not simply for another layer of AI software. The largest transaction is […]

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Rundoo raises $30M to help independent retailers take on Home Depot and other big-box chains with AI

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2026

The neighborhood hardware store may never have Home Depot’s budget or army of analysts. Rundoo thinks AI can help close some of that gap. The Redwood City, California-based startup has raised $30 million in Series B funding to bring AI-powered […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 19, 2026: Apple, LandSpace, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Samsung, Unitree, Z.ai & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2026

It’s Wednesday, August 19, 2026, and the tech world just shifted in a single news cycle. The AI race is no longer just about who builds the smartest model. It’s becoming a global contest over chips, electricity, factories, robots, cybersecurity, […]

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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 18, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Tiger Global & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 18, 2026

Artificial intelligence has dominated the news for months. But today’s venture capital is moving deeper into the technology stack. Rather than chasing another wave of generic AI software, investors are backing the infrastructure, energy efficiency, specialized silicon, communications, biological science, […]

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Reach Capital raises $265 million fund to invest in AI startups across learning, health, and work

Nickie Louise Posted On August 18, 2026

Reach Capital has raised $265 million for its fifth fund, giving the early-stage venture firm fresh capital to make a bigger bet on AI startups tackling three deeply human markets: how people learn, stay healthy, and work. The new fund, […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 18, 2026: Apple, Baidu, ByteDance, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Xiaomi & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 18, 2026

It’s Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and AI is breaking out of the chatbot box. In the last 24 hours, the technology race pushed deeper into the physical world: Apple’s rumored camera-equipped AirPods point to AI that can see what you […]

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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 17, 2026: Accel, DST Global, Intel Capital, Menlo Ventures, Mirae Asset Capital, Valor Capital & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 17, 2026

Venture capital’s message today is unusually clear: money is moving toward companies that either consume large amounts of compute, make expensive physical systems more autonomous, or turn AI into a workflow customers can actually pay for. The ten most important […]

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Dimension Energy secures $857M to scale distributed solar platform across the U.S.

Nickie Louise Posted On August 17, 2026

Dimension Energy has raised $857 million in fresh capital to build out its distributed solar business across the U.S., giving the company more financial firepower as electricity demand climbs and pressure on the nation’s grid intensifies. The financing comes in […]

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Digital Collectibles With Real Stakes: Inside the CS2 Skin Economy

Nickie Louise Posted On August 17, 2026

Digital designs for virtual weapons now trade at prices comparable to cars, luxury watches, and real estate. These items change a weapon’s appearance without affecting its performance. Counter-Strike 2 has played the central role in developing this secondary market, where […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 17, 2026: Anthropic, GE, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Stripe, Unitree & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 17, 2026

It’s Monday, August 17, 2026. In the last 24 hours, the tech world moved at the speed of capital and silicon: multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure deals locked in, a reported $7 billion AI gateway deal surfaced, carbon math for the next […]

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Goldman Sachs in talks with investors on Nvidia’s $500 billion AI financing deal that could turn compute into Wall Street’s next asset class

Nickie Louise Posted On August 14, 2026

Goldman Sachs is talking with banks, insurers, asset managers and private credit firms about backing Nvidia’s ambitious $500 billion AI financing initiative, according to Reuters, putting Wall Street deeper into a spending boom that could reshape how AI infrastructure gets […]

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China’s AI startup Z.ai says open-source GLM-5.3 beats Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in cybersecurity test

Nickie Louise Posted On August 14, 2026

Less than two months after China’s Z.ai surprised the AI industry with GLM-5.2, a model that beat OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks and narrowed the gap with leading U.S. AI labs, the Chinese startup is back with another challenge to […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 14, 2026: Apple, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, IBM, Pony.ai, OpenAI, SpaceX, Uber & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 14, 2026

It’s Friday, August 14, 2026, and the last 24 hours just reminded everyone why tech never sleeps. Google dropped a sharper, cheaper AI workhorse overnight. Apple quietly trained its own model for China with Alibaba’s help. The AI boom is […]

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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 13, 2026: Blackstone, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thiel Capital & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 13, 2026

Venture dollars are again clustering around AI and infrastructure. Today’s biggest deal saw Databricks haul in a record-breaking $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation. That massive raise – led by Coatue, Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price, and new backer […]

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OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser leaves, second high-profile executive exit this week

Nickie Louise Posted On August 13, 2026

OpenAI is losing another top executive at a pivotal moment for the AI company. Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving OpenAI less than a year after joining the ChatGPT maker, marking the second high-profile executive departure at the company […]

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