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Jeff Bezos backs $2.6B AI startup CuspAI as Nvidia joins quest to discover the next generation of materials

Daniel Levi Posted On July 20, 2026

Jeff Bezos is betting that the next major AI breakthrough won’t come from a chatbot. It will come from the discovery of new materials that could reshape semiconductors, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing. That vision drew investors to British startup […]

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SpaceX stock falls below IPO price to $123, wiping out $1 trillion as short sellers pocket $8.7 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On July 17, 2026

SpaceX’s post-IPO rally has come to a sudden halt. The company’s shares fell below their $135 IPO price for the first time on Friday, dropping to about $124 by midday as investors extended a weeks-long selloff that has erased roughly […]

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Apple Overtakes Nvidia as World’s Most Valuable Company in Major AI Market Shake-Up

Daniel Levi Posted On July 17, 2026

Apple is back on top. The iPhone maker overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, marking a sharp turn in investor sentiment around artificial intelligence. Apple closed with a market value of about $4.88 […]

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Chinese President Xi Jinping Unveils Global AI Strategy, Expands AI Outreach to Developing Nations

Daniel Levi Posted On July 17, 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping is making a bigger play for global influence in artificial intelligence. Speaking at China’s flagship AI conference on Friday, Xi cast Beijing as a long-term technology partner for developing nations, promising new training programs, broader international […]

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Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, ranks #1 on Code Arena, beating Claude Fable 5

Daniel Levi Posted On July 16, 2026

Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, its latest flagship large language model, and it is already making headlines. Within hours of its debut, Kimi K3 climbed to the top of Arena.ai’s Frontend Code Arena leaderboard, placing ahead of Anthropic’s Claude […]

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Beacon Security raises $13M seed to build AI-powered agentic cybersecurity platform

Daniel Levi Posted On July 16, 2026

Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity on both sides. Attackers are using AI to move faster, automate attacks, and uncover weaknesses at a pace that traditional security teams struggle to match. That shift is creating demand for software that gives human […]

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Uber to acquire Delivery Hero in $14.8 billion deal to create global food delivery giant

Daniel Levi Posted On July 16, 2026

Uber is betting big on the future of food delivery. The ride-hailing giant has agreed to acquire Germany’s Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion deal that would create the largest food delivery group outside China. If regulators approve the transaction, […]

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The Surprising Tech Behind Plinko: Physics, RNGs, and the Rise of Casual Casino Games

Daniel Levi Posted On July 16, 2026

Plinko looks almost absurdly simple. A disc drops from the top of a pegged board, bounces its way down through a field of pins, and lands in a slot at the bottom. Anyone who has watched a certain long-running television […]

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Nvidia launches Cosmos 3 Edge AI model to power robots and vision AI, expands Japan robotics and physical AI push

Daniel Levi Posted On July 16, 2026

Nvidia has launched Cosmos 3 Edge, a new AI model built to help robots and vision-based AI agents interpret and respond to physical environments in real time. The release marks the latest step in Nvidia’s effort to move artificial intelligence […]

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Thinking Machines launches Inkling, a powerful open-weights AI model that challenges Kimi and Nemotron

Daniel Levi Posted On July 15, 2026

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has entered the race for open AI models with a release that is already drawing attention across the developer community. The company on Tuesday introduced Inkling, its first open-weights foundation […]

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These 19 AI Startups Are Generating $18.3 Billion in Annual Revenue and Are Worth a Combined $319 Billion

Daniel Levi Posted On July 15, 2026

A new analysis reveals that AI’s next wave extends far beyond OpenAI and Anthropic, with infrastructure, coding, data, and enterprise startups already generating billions in annual revenue. For years, the AI conversation has centered on OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and […]

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang returns to Japan to thank Sega for the 1995 $5 million investment that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy

Daniel Levi Posted On July 15, 2026

Most people know Nvidia as the company behind today’s AI boom. Few know the company nearly went bankrupt before Sega threw it a lifeline. In 1995, Nvidia was running out of cash after a failed graphics chip project threatened its […]

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Stripe and Advent offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal in landmark payments deal

Daniel Levi Posted On July 15, 2026

Stripe is making its biggest move yet to reshape the payments industry. The fintech giant, together with private equity firm Advent International, has submitted an offer to acquire PayPal for more than $53 billion, according to Reuters. If completed, the transaction […]

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DeepSeek eyes $74 billion valuation in new funding round ahead of planned IPO

Daniel Levi Posted On July 15, 2026

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seeking a 500 billion yuan ($74 billion) valuation in a new fundraising round as it quietly prepares for a mainland stock market debut, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions. The move comes only […]

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Advisory Firms for Business Transformation and Digital Innovation

Daniel Levi Posted On July 14, 2026

Boards keep asking the same thing this year: hire internally or bring in people who’ve already done this elsewhere? AI rewrites roadmaps faster than most teams can staff, and budgets haven’t kept up with the hype. That’s the gap advisory firms […]

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Hadrius raises $27 million to build AI-powered compliance infrastructure for financial services

Daniel Levi Posted On July 14, 2026

Artificial intelligence is creating a new problem for Wall Street. AI can generate emails, marketing campaigns, research, and trading activity in seconds. Compliance teams still have to review all of it. That gap is growing, and legacy compliance software was […]

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Meta used AI to target disabled workers for layoffs, lawsuit claims

Daniel Levi Posted On July 14, 2026

A group of 26 former Meta employees has sued the company, alleging that artificial intelligence played a central role in deciding who lost their jobs during the latest round of layoffs and that the system unfairly penalized workers with disabilities, […]

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Ex-SpaceX engineers raise $115 million for construction startup TerraFirma to build infrastructure on Mars

Daniel Levi Posted On July 14, 2026

The race to build humanity’s future beyond Earth is creating a new generation of startups. TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by two former SpaceX engineers, has raised $115 million from a group of high-profile investors to bring SpaceX-style speed […]

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Guthrie AI raises $4 million to automate construction bidding, helping glass contractors bid 70% more with virtual bid assistants

Daniel Levi Posted On July 13, 2026

Chicago Ventures leads the seed round as Guthrie AI expands its platform to recruit, train, and manage Virtual Bid Assistants, helping commercial glass contractors shorten bid cycles and take on more work without adding full-time estimating staff. Every missed bid […]

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SpaceX loses nearly 40% from its $225.64 post-IPO peak, erasing $1 trillion in market value

Daniel Levi Posted On July 13, 2026

The stock has fallen from a post-IPO high of $225.64 to around its $135 offering price, wiping out roughly $1 trillion in market value as investors reassess the company’s heavy spending on Starship and Starlink. The market’s excitement over SpaceX’s […]

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