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 · Jun 26, 2026 · 4:21 AM

Onsemi bets $7 billion in stock on a world where AI runs at the edge, not the cloud

Onsemi agreed to acquire Synaptics in a $7 billion all-stock deal announced June 25, 2026, combining its power and sensing silicon with Synaptics' edge-AI processors and wireless connectivity in an explicit bet on inference workloads outside the data center. The deal, set to close mid-2027, targets $200 million in annual synergies and expands onsemi's addressable market to $243 billion by 2030, though onsemi shares fell 9% after-hours as investors weighed dilution and execution risk.

Walter Schulze · Jun 26, 2026 · 1:50 AM

Europe bets its AI sovereignty on a Milan startup most people have never heard of

The European Commission has selected Domyn, a Milan-based AI scale-up led by Albanian-Italian founder Uljan Sharka, to build Europe's sovereign open-source frontier AI model under the EUROPA consortium. The project will exceed 400 billion parameters, cover all 24 EU languages, and run on EuroHPC supercomputing infrastructure, with a one-year delivery target that raises serious questions about execution risk.

Walter Schulze · Jun 25, 2026 · 6:22 PM

Apple's price hikes are the clearest sign yet that AI infrastructure is eating the consumer electronics industry

Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed price increases across Mac and iPad lines are unavoidable, after the company quietly raised the Mac mini's entry price from $599 to $799. The root cause is structural: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have shifted the majority of their DRAM wafer capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators, leaving consumer device makers competing for a shrinking slice of global supply and facing a 90% surge in memory costs in Q1 2026 alone.

Walter Schulze · Jun 25, 2026 · 12:40 PM

The CLARITY Act has four weeks to pass the Senate or crypto regulation waits until 2030

Senator Cynthia Lummis has committed to a July Senate floor vote on the CLARITY Act, but collapsed ethics talks and a disputed developer-liability carve-out have cut passage odds from 74% to 48% in a month. With the Senate returning July 13 and August recess looming, the bill needs seven Democratic crossovers in roughly four weeks or crypto regulation realistically waits until 2030.

Walter Schulze · Jun 25, 2026 · 7:35 AM

Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July as talent exodus deepens the pressure on its AI ambitions

Google has pushed Gemini 3.5 Pro's general availability to July 2026, citing quality refinements after early enterprise testing. The delay lands as four senior AI researchers, including Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer, depart for OpenAI and Anthropic, raising harder questions about Google's ability to sustain its frontier AI pace.

Walter Schulze · Jun 25, 2026 · 3:10 AM

Binance is running out of EU doors to knock on as the MiCA clock expires

Binance withdrew its only formal MiCA licence application in Greece on June 24, with Ireland and Latvia also having blocked the exchange's regulatory approaches. As France and Italy's legacy national licences expire on July 1, rivals Coinbase, Kraken, and OKX stand ready to absorb displaced European users.

Walter Schulze · Jun 24, 2026 · 10:44 PM

Figma turns its design canvas into a coding environment at Config 2026

Figma's Config 2026 announcements collapsed the gap between design and engineering, shipping Code Layers for GitHub-connected canvas editing, native animations, 3D transforms, and AI-generated shader effects. The updates put Figma in direct competition with AI coding tools like Cursor and Replit, arriving with a key advantage: the design system is already loaded.

Walter Schulze · Jun 24, 2026 · 6:56 PM

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, a custom inference chip that puts Nvidia's pricing power on notice

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, OpenAI's first custom AI inference chip, designed from scratch in nine months and targeting substantially better performance-per-watt than Nvidia's current GPUs. The announcement comes with a commitment to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed accelerators with Microsoft through 2029, and signals a structural shift in how the largest AI operators think about inference economics.

Walter Schulze · Jun 24, 2026 · 5:49 PM

SaaS Pricing Page Best Practices That Turn Browsers Into Buyers

SaaS pricing page best practices are where most founders lose sales they've already half-won. Your visitor made it to the pricing page, which means they're interested. Here's what the page is doing wrong and what to fix first.

Walter Schulze · Jun 24, 2026 · 2:29 PM

Agility Robotics is going public via SPAC at a $2.5 billion valuation and the deal is more credible than most

Agility Robotics is merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI in a $2.5 billion SPAC deal backed by over $600 million in gross proceeds, including a Foxconn-led PIPE. Unlike the SPAC disasters of 2021, Agility enters the public markets with Digit robots already moving more than 100,000 totes commercially at GXO, Amazon, and Toyota, making this one of the more credible physical-AI IPOs yet attempted.

Walter Schulze · Jun 24, 2026 · 10:35 AM

Primary school teachers in Kerala, India, must immediately stop beating kids with sticks

A Kerala High Court ruling in February 2026 cleared a teacher who caned a student, calling it 'minimum corporal punishment' and not a crime. The decision contradicts India's Right to Education Act, ignores clear research on the psychological harm of school beatings, and demands a direct government response.

Walter Schulze · Jun 24, 2026 · 2:29 AM

Trump's quantum executive orders gave the sector a jolt but the hard question is whether Washington can sustain it

Walter Schulze · Jun 23, 2026 · 11:27 AM

SpaceX sheds $620 billion in market value within days of its record IPO as investors punish the Cursor deal

Walter Schulze · Jun 23, 2026 · 5:44 AM

Baseten raises $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation as inference becomes AI's most contested infrastructure layer

Baseten closed a $1.5 billion Series F this week at up to a $13 billion valuation, tripling its worth in five months on the back of annualized revenue that surged from $200 million to $600 million in a single quarter. The round signals that investors are betting inference infrastructure, not model access, is where durable AI margin gets captured. With rivals like Fireworks AI and Together AI also raising at multi-billion valuations, the inference layer is shaping up as the most contested infrast

Walter Schulze · Jun 23, 2026 · 1:21 AM

Amazon is recruiting Hindi speakers to beta test Alexa+ as it eyes India's 600 million-person voice market

Amazon has begun recruiting Indian users to beta test a Hindi-language version of Alexa+, its revamped generative AI assistant. It's the first time the product has targeted a non-English market since its US launch earlier this year, and it puts Amazon in direct competition with Sarvam AI and other Indian-language AI players for one of the world's largest untapped voice markets.

Walter Schulze · Jun 22, 2026 · 6:21 PM

Robinhood raises $2 billion in convertible notes as it builds a war chest for its next phase of growth

Robinhood Markets is raising $2 billion through convertible senior notes due 2029, using the proceeds for share repurchases, dilution protection, and strategic acquisitions. The deal arrives as the fintech pursues an aggressive global expansion spanning Canada, Indonesia, and prediction markets, even as Q1 2026 crypto revenue fell 47% year-over-year. The structure signals management confidence in a higher stock price by 2029.