June 4, 2026
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Daniel Levi

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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Fintech startup Ramp hits $44B valuation after raising $750M in new funding round
Daniel Levi Posted On June 4, 2026


Ramp has raised $750 million in a new funding round that values the company at $44 billion, up from $32 billion just seven months ago, the fintech startup announced Thursday. The deal ranks among the largest private financings of the […]


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Bitcoin falls below $61,500 as $3 billion in liquidations rock crypto market and traders brace for more pain
Daniel Levi Posted On June 4, 2026


Just months ago, Bitcoin was trading above $126,000 and fueling fresh predictions of a six-figure future. Today, traders are asking a different question: How much lower can it go? The world’s largest cryptocurrency briefly plunged to $61,300 during a sharp […]


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Ilant Health raises $15M to use AI for obesity care as employers rethink costly GLP-1 coverage
Daniel Levi Posted On June 4, 2026


The obesity drug boom promised a breakthrough in healthcare. It delivered one. It brought a new problem, too. Employers across the United States are facing soaring costs tied to popular GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. Some companies have begun scaling back coverage, […]


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Amazon unveils Proteus, an AI warehouse robot that understands spoken commands as part of its $11.6B European expansion
Daniel Levi Posted On June 4, 2026


Amazon wants warehouse workers to stop programming robots and start talking to them. At an event near London on Thursday, the e-commerce giant introduced an upgraded version of Proteus, its autonomous warehouse robot, capable of responding to employees’ conversational instructions. […]


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Nvidia acquires predictive AI startup Kumo AI in $400M+ deal to boost enterprise AI push
Daniel Levi Posted On June 4, 2026


Nvidia has spent the past several years turning itself from a chip company into something much larger: a full-stack AI company. Its latest acquisition shows just how serious that effort has become. The chip giant has acquired Kumo AI, a […]


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Google launches Gemma 4 12B, bringing frontier AI model to everyday laptops
Daniel Levi Posted On June 3, 2026


Google has spent the past year pushing AI models into phones, laptops, and edge devices. The challenge has always been the same: powerful multimodal models typically demand large amounts of memory and specialized hardware. Google DeepMind thinks it has found […]


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Uber lays off 23% of people division as company streamlines operations and pushes deeper into AI
Daniel Levi Posted On June 3, 2026


Uber is cutting nearly a quarter of the staff in its people division at a time when the company is spending heavily on AI tools and automation, marking the latest workforce reduction at a major tech company seeking greater efficiency. […]


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HLRBO raises $2.5M to expand the Airbnb-style marketplace for hunting land leases
Daniel Levi Posted On June 3, 2026


For decades, gaining access to private hunting land has largely been a fragmented process built on local connections, word of mouth, and handwritten agreements. HLRBO wants to change that. The Minnesota tech startup, whose name stands for Hunting Land Rentals […]


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DeepSeek set to raise $7.4 billion in first funding round, targeting valuation as high as $59 billion
Daniel Levi Posted On June 3, 2026


China’s AI champion DeepSeek is preparing to raise about $7.4 billion in its first-ever funding round, a deal that could value the startup at up to $59 billion and rank among the largest private technology financings in China. The fundraising […]


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The U.S. government wants to see AI models before you do. Trump just signed an executive order requesting early access
Daniel Levi Posted On June 2, 2026


The race to build the most advanced AI models has become one of the biggest competitions in technology. Now the U.S. government wants a closer look before those systems reach the public. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive […]


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Morningstar says SpaceX is worth less than half its $1.75 trillion IPO valuation, pegs company at $780 billion
Daniel Levi Posted On June 2, 2026


SpaceX is preparing for one of the most anticipated public offerings in history. Yet as excitement builds around the company’s planned Nasdaq debut, one major research firm is urging investors to pump the brakes. Morningstar believes Elon Musk’s aerospace giant […]


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Impulse Space raises $500M at $4.3B valuation to build the ‘last-mile’ infrastructure of space
Daniel Levi Posted On June 2, 2026


Launching a satellite into orbit is no longer the hardest part of spaceflight. Getting it where it actually needs to go may be the bigger challenge. That idea is attracting serious investor attention. Impulse Space, the spacecraft startup founded by […]


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Alphabet plans to raise $80B for AI infrastructure expansion, Berkshire to invest $10B
Daniel Levi Posted On June 2, 2026


Google’s biggest challenge right now isn’t finding customers for its AI products. It’s finding enough computing power to serve them. That reality is driving one of the largest fundraising efforts in corporate history. Alphabet said Monday it plans to raise […]


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AI is killing the unicorns: More than 220 unicorn startups are now worth less than half their peak value
Daniel Levi Posted On June 1, 2026


Five years ago, Chegg looked unstoppable. The online education company rode the pandemic boom to a market value of more than $14 billion. Investors loved the story. Millions of students relied on the platform for homework help, tutoring, and study […]


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Nvidia launches Cosmos 3, an open AI world model for robots, self-driving cars, and physical AI
Daniel Levi Posted On June 1, 2026


Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled Cosmos 3, a new open-source AI model that combines physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation within a single system. A robot can identify a coffee mug. A self-driving car can recognize a pedestrian. Yet knowing […]


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Motorola acquires Israeli drone-defense startup D-Fend for $1.5B amid rising rogue drone threats
Daniel Levi Posted On June 1, 2026


A few years ago, rogue drones were largely viewed as a nuisance. Today, they are a growing security concern for airports, military bases, data centers, government facilities, and critical infrastructure around the globe. Motorola Solutions is making a major bet […]


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Nvidia picks Chinese startup Unitree for its first humanoid robot AI platform as physical AI race heats up
Daniel Levi Posted On June 1, 2026


Nvidia is making a bigger push into humanoid robotics. The company has selected Chinese robotics startup Unitree for the first humanoid robot system it plans to sell to researchers at institutions ranging from Stanford University to ETH Zurich, the company […]


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Nvidia wants to turn American homes into AI data centers with new ‘garage server farm’ plan
Daniel Levi Posted On May 29, 2026


For years, giant AI data centers have swallowed farmland, strained power grids, and sparked fights in communities across America. Now Nvidia has a different idea: move some of that compute into suburban neighborhoods. The company is teaming up with California […]


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Denied a U.S. visa 3 times. Now he leads a tech company worth nearly $1 trillion
Daniel Levi Posted On May 29, 2026


The story behind Sanjay Mehrotra’s rise In the summer of 1976, an 18-year-old engineering student from India stood inside the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi after receiving devastating news for the third time. His American student visa had been denied […]


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Company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude AI in one month after forgetting usage limits
Daniel Levi Posted On May 28, 2026


One enterprise company reportedly learned the hard way that AI doesn’t just write code and answer prompts. It can torch a budget at a pace most CFOs have never seen before. According to a report from Axios, an AI consultant […]


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