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AI startups raised over $3.6 billion this week across infrastructure, wearable AI, enterprise automation, and fintech innovation.

Weekly AI Startup Funding: October 20-25, 2025

AI startups raised over $4.1 billion this week, with watershed moments in open-source AI, legal technology, and energy infrastructure.

Weekly AI Startup Funding: October 5-11, 2025

Capital based games require Ethereum to answer with capital based R&D.

To Hit $1T TVL, Ethereum Must Play the Ace

Built on Base and available now on 8 centralized exchanges including Bybit, Kucoin, and Bitget, the token marks a significant milestone in CARV’s mission to rev

CARV Launches $CARV Token: Empowering Data Ownership And Value Generation In Gaming And AI

Analyzing economic news with GPT-3.5 and network analysis to detect evolving topics and narratives, and linking news structures to financial market volatility.

A Novel Framework for Analyzing Economic News Narratives Using GPT-3.5: Results

An overview of 174 AI Tools, a very long overview. Most are free or have a free trial period, some you have to pay for immediately. I’ve broken it down into 8 c

174 AI Tools To Try

A startup company is a high-tech business that tries to build a scalable business model in tech-driven industries. A startup company usually follows a lean meth

The Birth of The Startup Through PayPal of The Early Days

Money was invented (or perfected) by scientists, not economists.  Meet: Copernicus, Newton, Priestley and Stornetta.

A Brief History of Money

Slime sourcing: it’s to the letter of libre licenses, but it’s certainly not to the spirit. Let’s talk about a trend in free and open source software that makes me uncomfortable.

Let’s Get Away From Slime Sourcing

Objects life-cycle is crucial. A mistake in determining an object’s lifecycle can lead to resource (e.g., memory, fd) leaks as the resource owned cannot be properly released and recycled for <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/future" target="_blank">future</a> use. When the leak accumulates to a certain level, it crashes the whole system. Objects life-cycle is also complicated since the ownership of one object might be relinquished by, transferred to, or shared with different entities which include but are not limited to variables, <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/function" target="_blank">function</a> arguments, modules, data structures, containers, and threads. Again, the resource has to be released and recycled by one of the owners at some undetermined point. There is no de-facto standard to determine objects life-cycle. Utilities like GC (garbage collection) that is used in Java, ARC used in Objective-C and all those pointers (ptrs) in C++, all have their pros and cons. However, this article is not about pros and cons but is focused on C++ resource management helper classes, Smart Pointer, <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">shared_ptr</code>, <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">auto_ptr</code> and <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">unique_ptr</code>.

Smart Pointer, shared_ptr, Automatic Pointer and unique_ptr

Over the last years, Berlin has been on the path of becoming Europe’s most active startup-hub. According to the <a href="http://startup-ecosystem.compass.co/ser2015/" target="_blank">Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking</a>, which rates cities’ <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a> attractiveness, Berlin moved up from place #15 in 2012 to #9 in 2015. <a href="http://start-up-initiative.ey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/EY_Start-up_Barometer_2016.pdf" target="_blank">EY</a> places Berlin even in front of London, as Berlin surpassed London in startup funding figures both in 2014 and 2015. With flagship companies like SoundCloud and the various Rocket Internet ventures, Berlin has been standing in international focus for years. Berlin-based Wunderlist was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, food service Delivery Hero is valued at $3.1 billion. In 2016, Berlin’s online bank fintech NUMBER26 raised $40 million from various (half of them being non-German) Investors, including Battery Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. However, while these exits, billion dollar valuations and large late stage funding rounds are good news, they’re still quite rare.

Local VCs in Berlin — A Network Analysis

Why I left Google to found an AI startup funded by Techstars and Peter Thiel. 

Han Solo — my journey from Google to founding Kalo

Explore labyrinthine patterns in Bi films using machine learning, revealing intricate transitions in magnetic domain structures.

Machine Learning Enhanced Characterization of Labyrinthine Structures in Bi-doped Films

While the industry has experienced some challenges in raising capital, investor sentiment is expected to improve as Wall Street anticipates further growth.

Could Fintech Investments Offer Added Value Following Wall Street’s Recent Struggles?

If you still think that Internet memes are just funny (and not) images and videos for entertainment, prepare to be surprised.

From Laughs to Ledger: The Rising Value of Meme Investments

As the prospect of steep tariffs threatens to transform global trade, defensive stocks are once again showing their appeal to investors. 

Defensive Stocks Offer Value as US Recession Fears Refuse to Go Away

Apple's stock took a bit of a beating because the company failed to sell as many iPhones as shareholders would have liked.

Not. Enough. iPhones. Apple Loses Value as Sales Drop

SEC is right about crypto laws. The laws, however . . . 

SEC Retreats From Ripple But Gensler’s Right About Crypto

Crypto's dual impact: cultural revolution in Hong Kong, financial empowerment in emerging markets. VALR bridges these worlds.

VALR CMO Ben Caselin Reveals How Digital Assets are Reshaping Finance in Unexpected Ways

Vanar, a Layer 1 blockchain network, has made a ground-breaking statement about its planned entry into the GameFi sector.

Viva Games and Vanar Chain Paving the Way for the Transformation of Web3 Gaming

“The King has got the letter, but they will not let us have speech with him.”

We Pierce the Last Ambuscades

About the 8th of September I accompanied Olson and von Schoenvorts to the oil-geyser.

October 8, 1916: This is the last entry I shall make upon my manuscript

"Ha, easy there, lad. Methinks the sea horse road is too rough for yer feet."

The Valor of Cappen Varra

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Weekly AI Startup Funding: October 20-25, 2025

Weekly AI Startup Funding: October 5-11, 2025

To Hit $1T TVL, Ethereum Must Play the Ace

CARV Launches $CARV Token: Empowering Data Ownership And Value Generation In Gaming And AI

A Novel Framework for Analyzing Economic News Narratives Using GPT-3.5: Results

174 AI Tools To Try

The Birth of The Startup Through PayPal of The Early Days

A Brief History of Money

Let’s Get Away From Slime Sourcing

Smart Pointer, shared_ptr, Automatic Pointer and unique_ptr

Local VCs in Berlin — A Network Analysis

Han Solo — my journey from Google to founding Kalo

Machine Learning Enhanced Characterization of Labyrinthine Structures in Bi-doped Films

Could Fintech Investments Offer Added Value Following Wall Street’s Recent Struggles?

From Laughs to Ledger: The Rising Value of Meme Investments

Defensive Stocks Offer Value as US Recession Fears Refuse to Go Away

Not. Enough. iPhones. Apple Loses Value as Sales Drop

SEC Retreats From Ripple But Gensler’s Right About Crypto

VALR CMO Ben Caselin Reveals How Digital Assets are Reshaping Finance in Unexpected Ways

Viva Games and Vanar Chain Paving the Way for the Transformation of Web3 Gaming

We Pierce the Last Ambuscades

October 8, 1916: This is the last entry I shall make upon my manuscript

The Valor of Cappen Varra

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