Walter Schulze

Walter Schulze brings all the breaking news stories in the tech and startup world and to ensure that Startup Fortune offers a timely reporting on the trends happen in the industry. He now works on a part time basis for Startup Fortune specializing in covering tech and startup news and he also sheds light on investment opportunities and trends.

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Walter Schulze · May 22, 2026 · 7:15 AM

Spotify brings ElevenLabs AI voices to author platform

Spotify just lowered the cost of audiobook production to near zero. A new AI tool launching in June lets self-published authors generate narrated versions of their books using ElevenLabs voice synthesis, with no upfront studio fees and no exclusivity requirement.

Walter Schulze · May 22, 2026 · 4:27 AM

Anti-AI sentiment becomes infrastructure constraint

Local opposition canceled at least 20 U.S. data center projects in the first quarter of 2026, a record high. With 71 percent of Americans now opposing data centers in their areas, AI infrastructure is hitting a political wall that no amount of compute can bypass.

Walter Schulze · May 22, 2026 · 1:15 AM

110 tok/s on RTX 4070 Super with Qwen3.6 35B

A LocalLLaMA community benchmark shows Qwen3.6-35B-A3B running at roughly 110 tokens per second on an RTX 4070 Super with just 12GB VRAM. The configuration uses a custom llama.cpp fork with MTP and specialized quantization, highlighting how local AI inference is becoming dramatically more accessible.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 10:26 PM

Krea 2's open source promise is still just a promise

A viral post claims Krea 2 is going open source. The startup launched its first in-house image model on May 12, built for style control and aesthetic diversity, but as of today, no weights have been released and no license has been posted. The community is betting on a pledge, not a product.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 7:38 PM

Hark raises $700M Series A at $6B valuation

Brett Adcock's Hark is not a $700 million venture round story, at least not on the public record. The new funding values the personal AI hardware startup at $6 billion and puts Adcock back in the conversation about who builds the interface after smartphones.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 5:13 PM

VinFast debt transfer sparks governance concerns

VinFast just moved 7 billion in debt off its balance sheet through a factory sale to a buyer group that includes its own founder. That sounds like financial engineering, not operational discipline.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 2:49 PM

Cleveland Flock dispute tests AI surveillance governance

Clevelandpunteda250,000 Flock license plate reader contract to city council after audit logs showed nearly 250 outside queries mentioning ICE, Border Patrol and customs. The city calls it a backend error. That excuse tells us something important about AI surveillance governance.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 1:39 PM

Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said the company has "largely conceded" China's AI chip market to Huawei, crystallising a bifurcated global AI supply chain that shifts enterprise buying and investor calculus toward domestic Chinese silicon and portability strategies. Reuters and Bloomberg reported Huang's comments and the broader market shifts driving them.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 10:56 AM

Gemini 3.5 Flash takes the lead in Zapier's AutomationBench

Gemini 3.5 Flash has moved into a more serious category. Google is now using it to prove Flash can do real agentic work, and Zapier's AutomationBench gives that claim a public score.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 7:29 AM

White House AI cyber order could tighten rules for federal deployments

The White House is preparing an AI cybersecurity directive that could tighten federal deployment rules, expand vendor scrutiny, and create new opportunities for AI security startups.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 4:49 AM

Nvidia's startup bets are turning its AI dominance into a strategic moat

Nvidia's record revenue is only part of the story. Its expanding startup portfolio is turning the chipmaker into both supplier and power broker across AI.

Walter Schulze · May 21, 2026 · 1:54 AM

X Developers push Hermes closer to native control of X

X Developers' new Hermes and xurl guide is another sign that social platforms are becoming agent-friendly infrastructure, not just places for human posting.

Walter Schulze · May 20, 2026 · 11:49 PM

1Password and OpenAI move credential security into Codex

1Password's new Codex integration puts secrets management at the center of agentic software development, letting AI tools use credentials at runtime without exposing plaintext.

Walter Schulze · May 20, 2026 · 9:32 PM

AMD prices Ryzen AI Halo at $3,999 as local AI hardware heats up

AMD has priced its Ryzen AI Halo developer box at $3,999, putting 128GB of unified memory and local LLM inference into a desktop-sized system aimed at developers.

Walter Schulze · May 20, 2026 · 7:13 PM

Exa's $2.2 billion valuation shows AI search has become a premium bet

Exa's new $2.2 billion valuation shows investors are still willing to pay premium prices for AI infrastructure that powers agents, retrieval, and live web search.

Walter Schulze · May 20, 2026 · 4:33 PM

European banks double down on euro stablecoin as Qivalis expands to 37 members

Qivalis has added 25 banks, reaching 37 members including ABN AMRO and Intesa Sanpaolo, as European lenders move to issue a MiCAR-compliant euro stablecoin aiming for H2 2026 launch and to challenge dollar-dominated digital payments.