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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, claims it beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol at one-third the cost

Daniel Levi Posted On September 23, 2026

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, taking another swing at OpenAI with a new flagship AI model that the company says can beat GPT-5.6 Sol on a software development benchmark at roughly one-third the cost. The new model arrives […]

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FBI hacked? ShinyHunters claims massive FBI hack, stealing data on ‘all FBI employees’ and their spouses

Daniel Levi Posted On September 22, 2026

The hunter may have become the hunted. ShinyHunters, one of the internet’s most notorious hacking groups, claims it breached the FBI and stole sensitive personal information belonging to nearly every FBI employee, former employee, and job applicant. A sample provided […]

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Snorkel AI raises $350M at $3.5B valuation as revenue surges 17X on AI training data boom

Daniel Levi Posted On September 22, 2026

Snorkel AI has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation after its annualized revenue run-rate exploded from roughly $20 million to more than $350 million in about a year, a striking sign of how valuable high-quality training data has […]

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Chinese humanoid robot T800 takes on human in first-of-its-kind cage fight, sends him flying and leaves him with a broken arm

Daniel Levi Posted On September 22, 2026

For the first time in history, a six-foot Chinese humanoid robot stepped into an octagonal cage in San Francisco, traded blows with American entertainer Frankie LaPenna, and ended a 44-second fight with a kick that appeared to send him crashing […]

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Cyera raises $400 million from Goldman Sachs at $12 billion valuation to secure enterprise AI agents

Daniel Levi Posted On September 22, 2026

Cyera has raised another $400 million from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, extending a Series G that values the data security company at more than $12 billion and pushing its fundraising since June 2025 to roughly $1.94 billion. The funding comes just […]

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Binance invests $100 million in Circle in major push to expand USDC globally

Daniel Levi Posted On September 22, 2026

Binance is investing $100 million in Circle under a new five-year agreement that could put USDC in front of one of the world’s largest crypto audiences, giving Circle a major distribution boost as it tries to close the gap with […]

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GoBTC Pay Tests Bitcoin as a Payment Rail for Agentic Commerce at Agnic.AI Hackathon

Daniel Levi Posted On September 22, 2026

GoBTC Pay is testing Bitcoin payments for autonomous AI agents through a dedicated developer track at Agentic Commerce Pioneers Edition II: The Shopping Agent Challenge. The GoMining-built Bitcoin payment protocol served as a Diamond Sponsor of the Agnic.AI hackathon, which […]

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The Bootstrapper’s Dilemma: Funding the Zero-to-One Phase Without Early Dilution

Daniel Levi Posted On September 21, 2026

In a volatile venture market where seed-stage checks demand proven retention numbers and enterprise pilots, raising external funds before you have a product is remarkably difficult. Venture funds and angel syndicates that previously wrote checks on pitch decks now expect […]

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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Overtakes ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to Become No. 1 Free App in U.S

Daniel Levi Posted On September 21, 2026

Meta’s new Muse AI agent has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store, overtaking ChatGPT just days after launch and giving Mark Zuckerberg an early win in the race to bring AI agents to mainstream consumers. Muse became […]

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Feldera raises $21.5M to cut database compute costs by 95% for AI workloads

Daniel Levi Posted On September 21, 2026

Feldera has raised $21.5 million in Seed and Series A funding to commercialize database technology that the startup says can cut compute costs by 95% or more, giving enterprises a cheaper way to keep large datasets fresh for AI agents […]

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Google fined €403 million over location data privacy violations in the EU

Daniel Levi Posted On September 21, 2026

Google has been hit with a €403 million ($463 million) fine in Europe after Ireland’s privacy regulator found that the tech giant violated EU data protection rules in how it collected, used, and retained people’s location data. Ireland’s Data Protection […]

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Key Trends Shaping B2B SaaS Growth for Startups

Daniel Levi Posted On September 21, 2026

B2B SaaS startups are adapting quickly to shifting buyer expectations and market conditions. Automation, integration, and user-centric design are now essential features, not differentiators. These trends are defining how young companies scale and succeed in today’s competitive landscape. B2B SaaS […]

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British AI startup Mantic raises $25M to build ‘superhuman’ AI forecasting after Metaculus win

Daniel Levi Posted On September 18, 2026

British AI startup Mantic has raised $25 million in seed funding after its forecasting system beat every human competitor in the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, giving the young company a striking proof point for its claim that machines are getting […]

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls for nationalizing frontier AI companies over ‘unlimited risks’

Daniel Levi Posted On September 18, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has pushed the AI safety debate into far more radical territory, arguing that frontier AI companies may need to be nationalized if society expects them to carry the potentially enormous legal liabilities created by their technology. […]

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Crusoe raises $3.9 billion at $30.9 billion valuation as AI infrastructure demand surges

Daniel Levi Posted On September 17, 2026

Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in fresh funding at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, marking a dramatic leap for the AI infrastructure company as investors pour enormous sums into the data centers, chips, and energy systems that support artificial intelligence. […]

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Zuckerberg, Musk and Jensen Huang Reportedly Lobbied Trump to Halt Industry-Funded AI Regulator Plan

Daniel Levi Posted On September 17, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang reportedly went straight to President Donald Trump to oppose a proposal for a new industry-funded AI watchdog, adding another fault line to a growing battle over who should police the companies building the […]

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Fintech startup Ryft raises £20M in UK’s largest payments Series B of 2026

Daniel Levi Posted On September 17, 2026

Manchester-based fintech startup Ryft has raised £20 million in a Series B round, securing fresh capital at a time when UK fintech funding falls to its lowest level in a decade. The round was led by Gresham House Ventures, with […]

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German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Facebook and Instagram, orders it to pay damages

Daniel Levi Posted On September 17, 2026

Meta just lost a court fight that goes to the heart of one of social media’s most persistent problems: scammers paying to place fake investment ads in front of users. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled that Meta can be held […]

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OpenAI discloses six new cases of ‘concerning’ AI model behavior outside Hugging Face incident

Daniel Levi Posted On September 17, 2026

OpenAI has disclosed six new cases of unexpected or “concerning” behavior from its AI models, including instances in which models tried to hide mistakes, used an exposed API key without permission, uploaded files to the public internet, and found unauthorized […]

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The Connection Between Engineering Skills and Entrepreneurship

Daniel Levi Posted On September 16, 2026

Engineering and entrepreneurship may seem like separate fields, but they share a common foundation. Both involve identifying problems, creating solutions, and finding better ways to accomplish a goal. Many successful businesses begin with a simple observation: something could work better. […]

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