August 20, 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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OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 prices by up to 80% as AI cost war heats up after Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 release
Daniel Levi Posted On July 30, 2026


Just three days after Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 open weights, the largest free AI model ever at 2.8 trillion parameters, OpenAI is making a move of its own. The company has slashed prices on two GPT-5.6 […]


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Goldman Sachs launches AlphaAI to bring AI investing across public and private markets
Daniel Levi Posted On July 30, 2026


Artificial intelligence has fueled one of the biggest investment booms in decades. Startups are raising billions, chipmakers are racing to keep up with demand, and Wall Street firms are pouring money into AI companies. Goldman Sachs sees the next opportunity […]


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AI infrastructure startup DataBahn raises $40M Series B to build agentic data control plane for enterprise AI
Daniel Levi Posted On July 30, 2026


The AI boom has created an expensive problem few companies expected. Every AI assistant, autonomous agent, and copilot depends on massive amounts of enterprise data, yet moving, storing, and processing that data is becoming one of the biggest cost centers […]


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Meta’s free cash flow plunges 91% as $145B AI spending rattles investors
Daniel Levi Posted On July 30, 2026


Meta’s AI spending just hit a new milestone. So did investor anxiety. The Facebook and Instagram parent said its free cash flow plunged 91% in the second quarter after pouring billions into AI infrastructure, leaving the company with just $784 […]


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AI infrastructure startup Eliyan becomes unicorn after $145M Series C to solve AI data center bottlenecks
Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2026


As AI companies race to build more powerful chips, one problem has become impossible to ignore: getting data in and out of those processors fast enough. Santa Clara-based startup Eliyan believes it has the answer—and investors are betting big on […]


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DoorDash launches DoorDash Air, its in-house drone delivery service, after securing FAA certification
Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2026


DoorDash is taking a bigger step into autonomous delivery. The food delivery company on Wednesday unveiled DoorDash Air, an in-house drone delivery program that follows a key regulatory milestone from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The certification clears the way […]


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AI Chip Stocks Lose $1.3 Trillion as Nvidia, TSMC, Samsung Hit by Fears Over AI Infrastructure Returns
Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2026


The AI trade just ran into one of its biggest reality checks yet. More than $1.3 trillion in market value vanished from the world’s largest semiconductor companies in just a few trading sessions as investors pulled back from one of […]


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Greyparrot raises $27M to expand AI waste intelligence platform after surpassing 1 trillion waste detections
Daniel Levi Posted On July 28, 2026


Every day, billions of bottles, cans, cartons, and other discarded materials move through recycling facilities with little visibility into what is actually being thrown away. Greyparrot wants to change that with artificial intelligence. The London-based startup has raised $27 million […]


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Top Tech News Today, July 28, 2026: Amazon, AMD, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Origin Energy, Verizon & More
Daniel Levi Posted On July 28, 2026


It’s Tuesday, July 28, 2026, and the tech world just shifted under our feet. In the past 24 hours, a Chinese lab dropped the largest open-weight AI model ever released, Microsoft fielded specialized cyber agents to fight AI-powered attacks, Nvidia […]


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GrubMarket confidentially files for U.S. IPO after reaching $4.5 billion valuation
Daniel Levi Posted On July 28, 2026


GrubMarket is taking its next big step. The AI-powered food supply chain company said Tuesday it has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, setting the stage for one of the latest tech IPOs as investor appetite for AI […]


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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects ban on open-weight AI models after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Google back open-weight AI
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


Just three days after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Google, and more than 20 technology companies urged President Donald Trump to support open-weight AI and warned against “premature restrictions” on open-weight models, all eyes were on Anthropic. On Monday, Anthropic co-founder […]


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Nvidia invests $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence as AI startup shifts from Google TPUs to GPUs
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


Nvidia has placed one of its biggest bets yet on the next wave of frontier AI research, investing $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and bringing the secretive startup into its hardware ecosystem. The deal gives SSI access […]


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China begins mass production of homegrown DUV lithography machines in major chip breakthrough
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


China has crossed a milestone that many in the semiconductor industry once viewed as years away. A Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing homegrown immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, marking the country’s first commercial manufacturing effort for one […]


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Apple’s September Updates Look Like a Strategy for Mobile Gaming Dominance
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


Read Apple’s September 2026 lineup as a spec sheet, and it looks like an incremental premium upgrade cycle. Read it as a product strategy document and a different picture emerges. The iPhone Ultra foldable, the A20 2nm chip, 12GB RAM […]


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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights, largest free AI model ever at 2.8 trillion parameters
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


The race to build the biggest open-source AI model just took another leap forward. Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released the full open weights of Kimi K3, handing developers free access to what is now the largest open-weight AI model […]


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Monday.com lays off 20% of workforce as AI restructuring cuts 620 jobs
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


The AI transition is no longer changing software products. It is reshaping the companies that build them. Monday.com is cutting about 20% of its global workforce, eliminating roughly 620 jobs as the Israeli software company overhauls its organization around artificial […]


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Nvidia, Microsoft and Palantir launch Open Secure AI Alliance to help defend against AI-powered cyberattacks after Hugging Face hack
Daniel Levi Posted On July 27, 2026


A cyberattack that exposed the limits of closed AI systems has sparked an unusual alliance across the tech industry. Nvidia, Microsoft, Palantir and dozens of leading technology companies on Monday unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), a new AI […]


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OpenAI and Google join growing coalition for open-weight AI as Elon Musk endorses Jensen Huang’s call for American AI leadership
Daniel Levi Posted On July 25, 2026


Just hours after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and more than 20 other technology companies urged President Trump to back open-weight AI and avoid what they called “premature restrictions” on downloadable models, the movement gained two of its biggest supporters yet. OpenAI […]


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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and 20+ tech giants urge Trump to back open-weight AI, warn against ‘premature restrictions’ on open-weight models
Daniel Levi Posted On July 24, 2026


The fight over the future of artificial intelligence took another turn Friday as Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other technology companies urged the Trump administration to resist calls for sweeping limits on open-weight AI models. Their message […]


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U.S., China and 19 other economies back open-source AI with stronger security safeguards at China summit
Daniel Levi Posted On July 24, 2026


As tensions between Washington and Beijing grow over allegations that Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 distilled capabilities from Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, the world’s two biggest AI powers have found rare common ground on one issue: the future of open-source AI. […]


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