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Shein targets $1.8 billion Hong Kong IPO at $27 billion valuation, down from $100 billion peak

Daniel Levi Posted On August 24, 2026

Shein is heading to Hong Kong’s public market with a valuation that tells a very different story from the one investors heard four years ago. The Chinese-founded fast-fashion giant is seeking to raise up to HK$13.86 billion ($1.77 billion) through […]

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Why Buying After a 100% Pump Usually Produces Poor Risk-to-Reward

Daniel Levi Posted On August 24, 2026

Buying after a 100% pump usually gives you poor risk-to-reward because much of the easy price move has already happened. You enter at a high price, earlier buyers are sitting on large profits, and the market needs another strong wave […]

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Nvidia to invest $6 billion to build U.S. open-weight AI model alternative to China’s DeepSeek, Kimi K3, and Qwen

Daniel Levi Posted On August 24, 2026

Nvidia is committing roughly $6 billion to a sweeping deal with AI startup Poolside, aiming to build one of the most capable U.S. open-weight AI models yet and challenge China’s growing lead in downloadable models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and […]

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Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion valuation as revenue tops $750 million

Daniel Levi Posted On August 24, 2026

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity as part of a new funding round that could value the AI search startup at more than $30 billion, a huge jump from its $20 billion valuation just a year ago. The […]

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Open-Source AI vs. Open-Weight AI Models: What’s the Difference?

Daniel Levi Posted On August 21, 2026

AI has an “open source” problem. Open-source and open-weight AI models have moved into the mainstream, fueled in part by the rise of Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Qwen team, and others. Suddenly, the terms are everywhere. We hear […]

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Goldman Sachs says open-source AI could be Big Tech’s unexpected winner as AT&T cuts model costs by 56%

Daniel Levi Posted On August 21, 2026

Open-source AI was supposed to squeeze the economics of the industry’s biggest players. Goldman Sachs sees another possibility: cheaper models could make enterprise AI affordable enough to drive far more usage, helping Big Tech fill the enormous computing capacity it […]

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Anthropic eyes $2 trillion valuation in IPO that could top SpaceX as biggest ever

Daniel Levi Posted On August 21, 2026

Anthropic is preparing for what could become the biggest IPO in history, with the Claude maker eyeing a valuation north of $2 trillion and an offering large enough to surpass SpaceX’s record-setting debut. The five-year-old AI company expects its IPO […]

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Twin1 AI emerges from stealth with $20M in funding to give every professional an AI-powered digital twin

Daniel Levi Posted On August 20, 2026

Twin1 AI is betting that the next big enterprise AI interface won’t be another chatbot. It will be a digital version of you. The San Mateo, California-based startup emerged from stealth Thursday with $20 million in seed funding to build […]

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Satellite startup Muon Space raises $250 million at $1.5 billion valuation to scale space infrastructure

Daniel Levi Posted On August 20, 2026

Satellite startup Muon Space has raised $250 million in fresh funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, giving the company a sizable war chest to build more satellites as demand for space-based infrastructure picks up across commercial and government markets. The […]

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MIT spinoff Apollo Atomics raises $31M to build factory-made nuclear reactors for AI data centers

Daniel Levi Posted On August 20, 2026

Apollo Atomics has raised $31 million in seed funding to turn decades-old nuclear reactor technology into something the industry has struggled to deliver: a reactor that can be built in a factory, shipped by truck, and deployed in less than […]

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UK AI startup Callosum raises $100M to rethink how AI uses models and chips, backed by Sovereign AI Fund

Daniel Levi Posted On August 20, 2026

Callosum, a London AI startup founded last year, has raised $100 million in seed funding to tackle one of the industry’s increasingly expensive problems: deciding which AI model should run on which chip. The company announced Thursday it has raised […]

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Nvidia in talks to invest in AI data startup Mercor at $20 billion valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On August 19, 2026

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Mercor, the AI data startup whose valuation could double to $20 billion less than a year after its last major funding round, according to a report from The Information. The potential investment would […]

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Replit launches ‘Free Mode’ with OpenAI, letting users build AI apps without burning credits

Daniel Levi Posted On August 19, 2026

Replit is targeting one of the most frustrating parts of building software with AI: watching the meter run. The AI coding platform on Tuesday launched Free Mode, a new option developed with OpenAI that lets paying subscribers chat, brainstorm, design, and […]

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Prevalent AI raises $22M to fix the enterprise data problem holding back AI agents

Daniel Levi Posted On August 19, 2026

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents, but many are discovering an uncomfortable problem: their AI is being asked to make decisions using data scattered across thousands of systems that were never built to work together. Prevalent AI thinks fixing […]

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China’s LandSpace lands reusable rocket booster, closing the gap with SpaceX

Daniel Levi Posted On August 19, 2026

China has crossed one of the biggest remaining barriers in reusable rocketry. Chinese space startup LandSpace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday after sending a satellite into orbit, marking China’s first successful land recovery of […]

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Washington DC’s Online Casino Bill Is Not a Land Grab. The Bottleneck Is Federal

Daniel Levi Posted On August 18, 2026

The instinct when a new jurisdiction opens is to treat it as a scarce allocation. A fixed number of licenses: first movers lock in an advantage; late entrants pay a premium or never get in at all. It is a […]

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$21 billion AI chip startup Etched takes on Nvidia, poaches its engineers and lands Jane Street

Daniel Levi Posted On August 18, 2026

Etched is starting to look like something Nvidia has rarely faced during the AI boom: a young chip startup with billions in backing, veteran Nvidia engineers on its payroll, more than $1 billion in orders, and a major Wall Street […]

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Best Online AML Certification Courses for 2026, Compared for Working Professionals

Daniel Levi Posted On August 18, 2026

Picking the Best AML Course Provider Online in 2026 It’s 9:40 on a Tuesday night. The kids are finally asleep, and you’ve got maybe 90 minutes before you’re too tired to stare at another compliance manual. For working professionals pursuing […]

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Google buys 100 million Spirit Airlines emails and 500 million teams chats for $10 million to train AI models

Daniel Levi Posted On August 18, 2026

Google is paying $10 million for something few people would expect to find at a bankrupt airline: roughly 100 million employee emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, and years of internal business records that could help train its AI models. […]

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Velaura AI raises $110M series A at $1B+ valuation to tackle AI’s growing power problem

Daniel Levi Posted On August 18, 2026

The AI race is running into a constraint that bigger models and faster chips cannot solve on their own: electricity. Velaura AI bets that the solution starts inside the chip. The Silicon Valley AI infrastructure startup announced Tuesday that it […]

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