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Mercury hits $5.2B valuation after $200M funding to become the go-to bank for AI startups

Daniel Levi Posted On May 20, 2026

Mercury is betting the next wave of startup founders won’t walk into a traditional bank branch. They’ll build companies with AI copilots, launch products faster than ever, and expect their financial tools to move at the same speed. That bet […]

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Intuit lays off 3,000 employees as TurboTax owner cuts 17% of workforce to focus on AI

Daniel Levi Posted On May 20, 2026

Intuit is cutting 3,000 jobs, or roughly 17% of its global workforce, as the TurboTax maker restructures around artificial intelligence and trims layers inside the company. The layoffs were disclosed in an internal memo sent Wednesday by CEO Sasan Goodarzi […]

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Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash and Omni world model at I/O 2026 as AI race with OpenAI heats up

Daniel Levi Posted On May 20, 2026

Google unveiled a wave of new Gemini-powered products and features at I/O 2026 on Tuesday, including AI models built to simulate the physical world, as the search giant pushes deeper into agentic AI across its ecosystem. At its annual developer […]

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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to advance Claude AI research

Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2026

Andrej Karpathy is heading back to the center of the AI race. The OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director announced Tuesday that he is joining Anthropic, adding another high-profile name to the growing battle for top AI talent between […]

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RADAR reaches unicorn status after raising $170M to modernize physical retail with AI

Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2026

For decades, physical retail operated with a blind spot that e-commerce solved years ago. Online retailers know exactly where every product is, what customers click on, what sits in carts, and what sells out first. Physical stores never had that […]

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Meta begins layoffs of 8,000 employees as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI overhaul

Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2026

For years, Silicon Valley promised that AI would make workers more productive. Meta is now showing what that can look like inside one of the world’s biggest tech companies, and thousands of employees are paying the price. Meta has begun […]

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Blackstone and Google launch $25 billion AI infrastructure venture to challenge Nvidia’s dominance

Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2026

Google and Blackstone are making one of the biggest bets yet on the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The two companies announced a new AI infrastructure venture that could grow into a $25 billion push to build data centers packed […]

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Armada raises $230M at $2B valuation to build modular AI data centers for military and energy sectors

Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence has created a new race for computing infrastructure, and a startup called Armada wants to bring AI processing far beyond traditional data centers. The San Francisco startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $230 million in Series B […]

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How Startup Teams Build Trust Before Scaling

Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2026

Startups often focus on growth, funding and product speed, but trust usually decides whether early momentum lasts. Before a company can scale, users need to believe the team can deliver consistently. Investors, partners and customers may forgive a young company […]

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Elon Musk loses case against OpenAI after just two hours of jury deliberations

Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2026

Elon Musk’s long-running fight against OpenAI just hit a major wall in court. A federal jury in Oakland on Monday ruled against Musk in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its original mission and turning into a profit-driven AI giant […]

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Why writing by hand may matter more in the age of AI: What a 20-year study by a neuroscientist found

Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2026

The modern tech industry has spent decades making life faster. AI can summarize meetings in seconds. Students take notes on tablets instead of notebooks. Workers move from Slack to ChatGPT to email to Notion all day without touching paper once. […]

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Qualtrics acquires Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal to redefine AI-powered patient experience

Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2026

Qualtrics is making a massive bet on the future of AI in healthcare. The company announced Monday that it has completed its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta, bringing one of the largest healthcare experience datasets under the Qualtrics umbrella. […]

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Searchable raises $14M to help brands win visibility in the age of AI search

Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2026

Search used to be simple. A company fought for a spot on Google’s first page, bought ads, tuned keywords, and hoped customers clicked through. That system is starting to crack. People are now asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity where […]

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BlackRock eyes up to $10B in SpaceX IPO as Musk’s rocket empire targets $1.75 trillion valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2026

Wall Street is lining up for what could become the biggest IPO in history. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has reportedly discussed investing between $5 billion and $10 billion in SpaceX’s upcoming public offering, according to a report from The […]

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Gemini shares surge 20% after Winklevoss twins inject $100M into struggling crypto exchange

Daniel Levi Posted On May 15, 2026

Gemini shares jumped more than 20% in premarket trading on Friday after the crypto exchange reported a smaller quarterly loss than Wall Street expected and revealed a fresh $100 million investment from founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The rally offered […]

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Cerebras pops 89% in Nasdaq IPO debut, hits $106B valuation amid AI frenzy

Daniel Levi Posted On May 15, 2026

Cerebras Systems made a thunderous entrance onto the public markets Thursday, with shares soaring 89% above their IPO price in one of the biggest signs yet that Wall Street’s appetite for artificial intelligence remains far from cooling down. The AI […]

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ChatGPT allegedly shared users’ query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, new class action lawsuit claims

Daniel Levi Posted On May 14, 2026

Millions of people use ChatGPT to ask questions they would never post publicly. They ask about depression, debt, marriage problems, medical symptoms, legal trouble, and career fears. A new lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that some of those conversations […]

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25 Most Popular AI Terms Everyone Should Know in 2026

Daniel Levi Posted On May 14, 2026

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and it’s rewriting how the world works. Along with these massive shifts comes an entirely new vocabulary. Spend just a few minutes reading about AI, and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other […]

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Cisco lays off 4,000 employees while doubling down on AI infrastructure

Daniel Levi Posted On May 14, 2026

Cisco is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs as the networking giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence, data center infrastructure, and hyperscaler demand that continues to surge across the tech industry. The company said affected employees will begin receiving notifications today, […]

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The human side of agentic AI adoption: Why Google is sending builders, not salespeople, into the enterprise

Daniel Levi Posted On May 13, 2026

Enterprise AI is no longer a software demo problem. It’s an operational deployment problem. After nearly three years of nonstop AI hype, enterprises are running into a reality check. Building an impressive chatbot demo is easy. Getting agentic AI systems […]

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