Dave Barr

Dave Barr is a professional Marketing Strategist With Over 6 Years Of Experience in PR. His primary area of expertise is public relations and social branding. Dave has been associated with various content projects from across the world on a regular basis. He has also had associations with big and reputed news networks. Dave contributes to Startup Fortune in the Business, Marketing and Technology sections.

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Dave Barr · Jul 14, 2026 · 4:25 AM

Steve Klinsky Says Wall Street Is Overreacting to the AI SaaS Panic

New Mountain Capital's Steve Klinsky is pushing back on the SaaSpocalypse narrative, arguing AI's disruption of SaaS will be slower and narrower than public markets are pricing in. His case echoes Marc Benioff's, but a fresh trillion-dollar chip stock selloff and a skeptical Bloomberg Opinion column show the market isn't convinced yet.

Dave Barr · Jul 14, 2026 · 1:53 AM

Together AI raised $800 million on the bet that cheaper AI wins

Together AI closed an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Saudi Aramco's venture arm, after annual bookings hit $1.15 billion. Customers like Decagon report cutting inference costs sixfold by switching off closed models, and Together now plans to grow its infrastructure 50x over five years.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 10:06 PM

Intel's Record Rally Meets a Reality Check as AMD Takes the Data Center Crown

Intel shares fell more than 21% in a week after AMD out-earned it in data-center revenue for the first time, reports surfaced that its 18A chip process won't turn profitable until late 2026 or 2027, and a Bank of America bubble warning triggered a $1 trillion semiconductor selloff. HSBC still has a $200 price target while Intel's July 23 earnings loom as the next verdict.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 5:03 PM

Saudi Aramco Bets $800 Million That Open Source Beats Closed AI

Together AI raised an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Saudi Aramco's venture arm with Nvidia, Vista Equity Partners and General Catalyst joining in. The round more than doubles the company's valuation from 16 months ago and signals real capital behind the bet that open-weight models can beat closed frontier labs on cost.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 12:28 PM

Stablecoin Supply Shrinks by $10 Billion Just as Circle Wins a Bank Charter

Stablecoin market cap has dropped $10 billion since May, including a $7.7 billion decline in June, the steepest pullback since the 2022 Terra collapse. The retreat lands just two days after Circle won final OCC approval for a national trust bank charter, setting up a split screen between contracting on-chain liquidity and deepening regulatory legitimacy.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 9:31 AM

What Is a Perp DEX and Why Traders Are Leaving Centralized Exchanges

What is a perp dex? It's a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures where your collateral never leaves your wallet until you trade. Platforms like Hyperliquid and GMX are pulling serious volume away from Binance and Bybit by replacing custodial trust with on-chain order books, vAMMs, and transparent liquidation engines.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 8:04 AM

Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch to July 17 After Scrapping Its Base Model

Google scrapped the original Gemini 3.5 Pro base model and restarted pretraining, pushing the launch to July 17, 2026. Leaked specs point to a 2 million token context window and a new Deep Think reasoning mode, landing right as DeepSeek's own July 24 deadline forces developers to migrate off its old model names.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 3:30 AM

LAB Token Collapses Nearly 98% After ZachXBT Traces Dump to Team Funded Wallet

A wallet funded directly by the LAB project team dumped 18.4 million tokens through the Aster exchange, crashing the price and exposing insider control of more than 95% of the token's supply. ZachXBT has also flagged undisclosed loan contracts, unilaterally changed vesting terms, and a much larger unlock scheduled for mid-August.

Dave Barr · Jul 13, 2026 · 1:57 AM

The Escalating US-Iran War Is About To Torpedo Global Markets, And The Middle East Will Feel It First

A fresh round of US strikes on Iran and Tehran's retaliation against Gulf states have reopened the Strait of Hormuz as a war zone, pushing oil higher and dragging global equities into a broad sell-off. The Middle East sits directly in the blast radius.

Dave Barr · Jul 12, 2026 · 2:35 PM

Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half Its Bitcoin to Chase an AI Data Center Bet

Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin at a steep loss to fund a $65 million bet on a 25 percent stake in an unbuilt Midwest AI data center. The move follows a shareholder revolt over its costly Bitcoin treasury strategy and mirrors a rotation already underway at bigger crypto miners chasing AI leases.

Dave Barr · Jul 12, 2026 · 1:39 AM

Researchers hacked a quantum neural network on real trapped-ion hardware and gutted its accuracy

A newly published arXiv paper shows researchers carried out a full multi-stage attack on a quantum neural network running on real trapped-ion hardware, crashing its accuracy from 92.4% to 1.07%. With IonQ and Archer Materials already deploying quantum machine learning commercially, the paper exposes how immature cloud quantum security really is.

Dave Barr · Jul 11, 2026 · 4:29 AM

Circle Wins Final OCC Approval to Become a National Trust Bank

Circle won final OCC approval on July 10, 2026 to open Circle National Trust, a federally chartered bank limited to custody and fiduciary services. The stock jumped as much as 16% even though analysts at Mizuho say the market reaction outran the substance.

Dave Barr · Jul 10, 2026 · 7:38 PM

Raytheon and Rheinmetall Just Won Britain's Biggest AI Army Training Deal

The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded a Raytheon UK-led consortium, including Rheinmetall UK, a £2 billion, 15-year contract to build an AI-driven training platform for the British Army. The deal, which trains up to 60,000 soldiers a year through a new Combat Laboratory simulation system, shows defense primes moving to own AI capability directly rather than ceding ground to venture-backed defense tech startups.

Dave Barr · Jul 10, 2026 · 7:31 AM

What Is a Bonding Curve? How Token Prices Get Set Before Listing

What is a bonding curve? It's the smart contract formula that prices a token automatically as it's bought and sold, with no order book and no market maker involved. This primer breaks down how pump.fun's bonding curve works, how it differs from a standard automated market maker, and why most tokens launched on it never survive long enough to graduate.

Dave Barr · Jul 10, 2026 · 4:18 AM

Cloudflare Starts Charging AI Companies for the Web Data They Once Took Free

Cloudflare has moved from tracking AI crawlers to blocking them by default on ad-supported pages starting September 15, 2026, while shifting its payment model from per-crawl fees toward paying publishers only when their content shows up in a generated answer. The shift turns years of free AI scraping into a metered cost, backed by Cloudflare data showing crawl-to-referral ratios as skewed as 50,000 to one.

Dave Barr · Jul 9, 2026 · 11:14 PM

Helsing's Equity Reshuffle Shows How Fast Europe's Defense Boom Is Moving

Helsing is closing in on a $1.2 billion round that would value it at $18 billion, Europe's most valuable defense startup. Bloomberg reports the company has also changed its staff equity plan right before the raise, a move that shows how startups manage dilution and retention as valuations spike.