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Three months. That's all it took for XDOF to go from stealth to unicorn territory. The robot training data startup — founded by two UC Berkeley researchers — is now in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at roughly $1.2 billion, led by 8VC. For anyone tracking the pace of AI infrastructure investme
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ওয়াশিংটন চীনা হার্ডওয়্যারকে মার্কিন বাজার থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন করার জন্য সবচেয়ে আক্রমণাত্মক পদক্ষেপ নিয়েছে। কিন্তু চীনের উৎপাদন স্কেল মানে প্রতিযোগিতা শুধু আমেরিকায় নয়, এশিয়া এবং গ্লোবাল সাউথে পুনর্নির্দেশিত হয়।
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A two-year-old British infrastructure company is about to test whether the AI compute gold rush can sustain a public market valuation. Nscale, fresh off a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is now reportedly seeking $3.5 billion in pre-IPO financing — a move that signals just how capital-intensive the
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You pick up a menu, glance at the food photography, and something feels off — not wrong enough to name, just wrong enough to make you put the menu down. The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus is now real enough that customers are noticing it viscerally, even when they can'
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$12.93 billion. That's what Nvidia just paid to own the platform that 18 million developers use to find, share, and deploy AI models. When Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, it isn't just making a financial bet — it's making a structural claim on where the AI stack lives. Fo
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Most conference stages are built for announcements. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is built for operators — the founders who are already in the trenches, making real decisions about hiring, product, and growth. The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups back to Dis
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Google just handed governments and enterprises a significant edge in the arms race against cyber threats — and it's powered by the same AI models reshaping how software gets built. On September 2, 2026, Google launched the Fairwind Program, a limited-access initiative that brings its most advanced A
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Eighteen months from YC cohort to $3.2 billion valuation. That's not a typo. AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn — a milestone that tells you something important about where AI investment is headed, and why the specific category AfterQuery operates in is suddenly worth
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Google just shipped a tool that makes Canva-style image creation feel like a native part of your workflow. Google Pics — built on Google's Nano Banana image generation and editing model — is rolling out to Google AI Pro, Ultra, and most Workspace business customers, and it does something that matter
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Corporate espionage allegations rarely come with the word "shocking" attached — at least not from the company filing the claim. When Apple describes its own evidence as shocking, that's a signal worth paying attention to. The case involving a former Apple employee accused of stealing proprietary dat
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Three million military and civilian personnel just got access to custom-built versions of the world's most powerful AI chat tools — and the U.S. government didn't build them from scratch. The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok, deployed through a centralized secure portal called Ge
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Washington just made its most aggressive move yet to wall off Chinese hardware from U.S. markets — steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, plus tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems. The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China's manufact