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Tether buys SoftBank’s approximately 26% stake in Bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, bringing its stake to approximately 71%; SoftBank’s stake was worth about $679 million (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is OpenAI Ready to IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI The…

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Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80 million from KKR’s growth equity arm at a valuation of more than $1 billion, bringing the total raised to $285 million (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 23, 2026

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, has raised $80 million from KKR’s growth equity…

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AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50 million Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85 million after raising a $25 million Series A in February 2026 (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Why we are at the start of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex-OpenAI, Meta,…

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Reliable Robotics, which develops autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160 million led by Nimble Partners, bringing its valuation to ~$1 billion (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 21, 2026

Cailley LaPara / Bloomberg: Reliable Robotics, which develops autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160 million led by Nimble…

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Japan approves another $4 billion in subsidies to Rapidus to fund the chipmaker’s work for Fujitsu, bringing total state investment and fees to $16.3 billion (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The dilemma of the Anthropic myth, violence against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The Big Technology…

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Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57 million (Meir Orbach/CTech)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

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ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spending tools, raised a $130 million Series C led by Insight Partners at a valuation of more than $800 million, bringing its total funding to more than $210 million (Meir Orbach/CTech)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Meir Orbach / CTech: ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spending tools, raised a $130 million Series C led by Insight…

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Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time or irregular suppliers, raised a $40 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to more than $120 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Creating Prediction Markets (and Suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara Stripe co-founder…

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Nitra, which offers an AI agent-powered platform to manage medical practices, raised a $50 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $205 million (Catherina Gioino/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Catherine Gioino / Fortune: Nitra, which offers an AI agent-powered platform to manage medical practices, raised a $50 million Series…

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Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Toronto startup Taalas, which embeds AI models in custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Nepali PM confuses mandate with immunity – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Browsing: bringing

Tether buys SoftBank’s approximately 26% stake in Bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, bringing its stake to approximately 71%; SoftBank’s stake was worth about $679 million (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80 million from KKR’s growth equity arm at a valuation of more than $1 billion, bringing the total raised to $285 million (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50 million Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85 million after raising a $25 million Series A in February 2026 (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

Reliable Robotics, which develops autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160 million led by Nimble Partners, bringing its valuation to ~$1 billion (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)

Japan approves another $4 billion in subsidies to Rapidus to fund the chipmaker’s work for Fujitsu, bringing total state investment and fees to $16.3 billion (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57 million (Meir Orbach/CTech)

ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spending tools, raised a $130 million Series C led by Insight Partners at a valuation of more than $800 million, bringing its total funding to more than $210 million (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time or irregular suppliers, raised a $40 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to more than $120 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Nitra, which offers an AI agent-powered platform to manage medical practices, raised a $50 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $205 million (Catherina Gioino/Fortune)

Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)