by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Technology
OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year. The round will add to OpenAI’s war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips,...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Technology
Pete Martin remembers raising a $5 million seed round at a $25 million post-money valuation for his AI-powered cybersecurity company Realm way back in 2024, aka, like a thousand “AI years” ago. That valuation seemed high for that amount at the time, he recalled. But...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Technology
Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough. Less than a year after launching, Yupp is closing its business, co-founders Pankaj Gupta and Gilad Mishne announced on Tuesday. Yupp offered a...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Technology
Meta lost a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico last week, marking the first time that the company has been held liable by the court system for endangering child safety. This was a landmark decision on its own — but the next day, Meta lost another case when a jury...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Technology
TikTok has quietly added a secret emoji game that you can access in your DMs. The goal of the game is simple: use your finger to bounce as high as you can by hopping across alligators. Avoid the skeleton alligators, and be careful — broken alligators disappear after...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Technology
“Your AI? It’s my AI now.” The line came from Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence at Cato Networks, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat at RSAC 2026 — and it describes exactly what happened to a U.K. CEO whose OpenClaw instance ended up for sale on...
