Daniel Levi

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Daniel is a writer and editor for Tech Startups. Daniel has been involved in technology and gaming for over two decades. He has previous experience in software development and loves writing about emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrency. Daniel also enjoys hiking and camping.

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“Something Big Is Happening”: Why the Viral AI Essay Is Capturing 82 Million Views and Sparking Global Anxiety

Daniel Levi Posted On February 14, 2026

In December 2025, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a sobering estimate. Using a digital twin simulation of the U.S. workforce — modeling millions of workers across hundreds of occupations and tens […]

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ByteDance in talks to sell gaming unit Moonton in $6B–$7B deal to Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games

Daniel Levi Posted On February 13, 2026

ByteDance is edging closer to a landmark deal that could redraw its gaming ambitions. The TikTok owner is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technology, the studio behind the hit mobile title Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia’s […]

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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2026

Anthropic has pulled off one of the largest funding rounds in startup history, raising $30 billion in a Series G that pushes its valuation to $380 billion. The deal comes just weeks after another massive raise, showing how quickly investor […]

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The Press Release Problem in Crypto: When Paid Visibility Replaces Journalism

Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2026

Crypto has no shortage of information. What it increasingly lacks is separation. A recent independent analysis conducted by Chainstory of nearly 3,000 crypto press releases highlights a structural issue that many readers, founders, and journalists have sensed for years but […]

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China successfully landed reusable rocket on the sea, closing the gap with SpaceX

Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2026

On April 8, 2016, SpaceX became the first company in the world to land and recover an orbital-class rocket booster at sea, touching down a Falcon 9 first stage on an autonomous drone ship after a mission to the International […]

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OpenClaw Is Going Viral. Here’s The #1 Use Case and 35 Ways People Automate Work and Life With It

Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2026

OpenClaw didn’t ease its way into public view. It erupted. The project launched on January 25 as Claudebot. Two days later, an Anthropic trademark notice landed. Within hours, the name changed to Moltbot. Another rebrand followed days later, this time to […]

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Poland-based B2B startup Demoboost raises €2.8M to turn product demos into revenue intelligence

Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2026

Poland-based B2B startup Demoboost is betting that product demos can do far more than help close a deal. The Warsaw-based company has raised €2.8 million to turn demos into a source of revenue intelligence, at a moment when B2B sales […]

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Tangible secures $4.3M seed to help hardtech startups replace equity with structured debt

Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2026

Hardtech startups are building the physical backbone of the modern economy. From energy systems and transport networks to data centers and industrial hardware, these companies need real assets long before they reach traditional scale. The problem is how those assets […]

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Probability Calibration Explained Using Reliability Diagrams And Real Platforms

Daniel Levi Posted On February 11, 2026

A model that says “0.90 confident” is making a promise. It is not saying “I feel sure.” It is saying, “In situations like this, I will be right about 90% of the time.” Many teams treat that number like a […]

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Largest funding rounds of early 2026: Top startups attracting massive VC investment

Daniel Levi Posted On February 11, 2026

If 2025 was the year AI proved it could work, early 2026 is the moment investors decided it must scale. Over the past several weeks, venture capital activity has shifted decisively away from lightweight experimentation and toward execution at industrial […]

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Nebius buys Tavily for $275M to bring real-time agentic search into its AI cloud

Daniel Levi Posted On February 11, 2026

The race to build useful AI agents is shifting from flashy demos to something far more practical: access to live information. That shift is now driving real money. Nebius Group NV has agreed to acquire Tavily in a deal valued […]

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AI accelerates drug discovery from decades to months as Isomorphic Labs’ Drug Design Engine pushes beyond Nobel-Level science

Daniel Levi Posted On February 10, 2026

In 2024, Sir Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, an AI system that solved a fifty-year problem by predicting protein structures at scale. The achievement felt like a finish line for AI-driven […]

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Amazon is losing control of e-commerce as TikTok forces sellers to choose sides

Daniel Levi Posted On February 10, 2026

For more than two decades, Amazon has built its dominance by owning every step of the online shopping process. People discovered products on Amazon, researched them on Amazon, and relied on Amazon to deliver them. That control gave sellers little […]

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Vega raises $120M Series B led by Accel to replace centralized SIEMs with AI-native security analytics

Daniel Levi Posted On February 10, 2026

For years, enterprise security teams have been told that better detection starts with moving more data. Logs pulled from everywhere. Pipelines stitched together. Costs are climbing quietly in the background. The model became so familiar that few questioned whether it […]

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Binance, whose founder was pardoned, now holds 87% of Trump’s stablecoin USD1

Daniel Levi Posted On February 10, 2026

Fortune’s investigation details the unusually high concentration of USD1 at Binance and the conflict-of-interest questions it raises. Binance did not quietly become the dominant holder of a Trump-linked stablecoin. It happened in plain sight, through promotions, transfers, and a sequence […]

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Google just open-sourced LangExtract, a free tool that does what $50K enterprise document extraction software does

Daniel Levi Posted On February 9, 2026

The data extraction market has been growing fast, quietly, and profitably. That calm just ended. Google has released an open-source tool that puts a fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar industry on notice. The tool, called LangExtract, tackles a problem that has long required paid […]

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MrBeast expands into Fintech as Beast Industries acquires Gen-Z banking app Step Mobile

Daniel Levi Posted On February 9, 2026

MrBeast is pushing his empire into an unexpected place: Fintech and banking. Beast Industries is entering fintech for the first time. Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson’s company has agreed to acquire Step Mobile, a banking app focused on teens and young adults, […]

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Topview unveils collaborative AI content platform after raising $5.5M and reaching 5M users

Daniel Levi Posted On February 9, 2026

The Singapore-based AI startup is rolling out Topview 4.0, a collaborative AI content workspace that pulls text, image, voice, and video generation into a single cloud environment. The launch arrives alongside $5.5 million in fresh funding, pushing the company’s Series […]

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Galux raises $29M Series B to scale AI-driven protein design for drug discovery

Daniel Levi Posted On February 9, 2026

Galux is building something that drug discovery has chased for decades: the ability to design therapeutic proteins from scratch with speed, accuracy, and confidence. On Monday, the South Korea–based biotech startup said it has raised $29 million in a Series […]

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Top Tech News Today, February 9, 2026

Daniel Levi Posted On February 9, 2026

It’s Monday, February 9, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves. Today’s global tech headlines reveal an ecosystem under quiet but accelerating pressure. From fresh AI advances reshaping software economics to cybersecurity incidents hitting payments and telecom […]

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