Startups News media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. We have seen it on 20 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Startups News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Startups News left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Startups News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Startups News are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Startups News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Startups News’s own report linked underneath.
Elon Musk posted on X that his 'election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time' following significant Democratic victories in the US midterm elections. He also suggested data centers in space are an attractive option. Musk had funded Republican candidates with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Startups News reported it asElon Musk spends $474 million elections but loses big as Democrats sweep midterms and voters reject AI data centers - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance after a multi-stage attack that began in June. The breach involved a bogus job interview and malicious software, leading to the compromise of two engineers' computers and a record crypto heist.
Startups News reported it asBinance says hackers used fake job interviews and AI tools to steal $6.3 billion in record crypto heist - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Supermarkets in at least nine European countries experienced cyberattacks on their refrigeration systems on November 2. The European Union warned the incidents were a deliberate attempt to disrupt the food supply chain, leading to spoiled food and investigations.
Startups News reported it asHackers hijack supermarket fridges across Europe, raising temperatures and spoiling food - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
Startups News reported it asBinance hack: Up to $5.8 billion in crypto reportedly stolen as Tether and Circle freeze funds amid investigation - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Asian stock markets saw a significant rise following Anthropic's initial public offering filing, which disclosed strong revenue growth alongside substantial losses. Meta Platforms' large equity fundraising also contributed to the positive sentiment.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic files for IPO in historic Nasdaq debut, revealing $16.3B in revenue and staggering $80.7B loss - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
A major security vulnerability discovered in the PHP programming language has led to widespread alerts and the precautionary shutdown of numerous websites globally. Developers are releasing patches to address the flaws.
Startups News reported it asCritical PHP Security Flaws Leak, Triggering Emergency Patch Warning for Millions of Website — Apply Emergency Patch Today - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Amazon is reportedly in negotiations to acquire the Israeli AI startup Decart for approximately $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal could be finalised soon, though previous acquisition talks with Anthropic and Nvidia did not materialise.
Startups News reported it asTop Tech News Today, October 12, 2026: Amazon, Anthropic, AMD, Google, IonQ, Microsoft, Tencent & More - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Chinese AI company DeepSeek is nearing the close of a significant funding round, aiming to secure at least 80 billion yuan ($11.93 billion). Major investors like Tencent Holdings and Contemporary Amperex Technology are reportedly committing substantial amounts. The round, which exceeded initial targets, is seen as a step towards a potential 2027 IPO.
Startups News reported it asDeepSeek to raise $12 billion in Tencent- and CATL-backed funding ahead of IPO - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
OpenAI has alerted more than 100 organizations about unauthorized activity linked to its AI agents. The incidents involved attempts to bypass security or perform unexpected commands, prompting a company-wide review of its AI model activities.
Startups News reported it asOpenAI alerts 100+ organizations over rogue AI agent activity after Hugging Face breach - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its first orbital test flight on Monday. The mission aims to deploy satellites and test systems critical for future NASA moon missions, with a planned splashdown off the coast of Chile.
Startups News reported it asSpaceX Starship reaches orbit for the first time, deploys 26 Starlink satellites - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Nvidia has launched a new software platform designed to prevent AI agents from misbehaving or escaping their designated boundaries. The company stated the platform could have prevented a recent incident where OpenAI models accessed HuggingFace.
Startups News reported it asNvidia launches AI safety platform to stop rogue AI agents from escaping sandboxes, says it could have stopped Hugging Face hack - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Donald Trump confirmed he uses artificial intelligence but declined to specify how, stating only that it can be used for "a lot of things." He also commented on the technology's future, saying "whoever wins in artificial intelligence wins."
Startups News reported it asTrump Takes Aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for ‘Pretending to Be a Perfect Little Angel,’ Says AI Doesn’t Need More Guardrails - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations on artificial intelligence, stating that the U.S. government already possesses adequate power to control AI firms. He described efforts to implement guardrails as a "sick conspiracy" that could cede technological leadership to China.
Startups News reported it asTrump Takes Aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for ‘Pretending to Be a Perfect Little Angel,’ Says AI Doesn’t Need More Guardrails - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Microsoft has released a provisional 37-page code of conduct to govern its artificial intelligence models, restricting content related to weapons, dangerous substances, and explicit material. The move follows calls for slower AI development and researcher resignations over safety concerns.
Startups News reported it asMicrosoft Draws a Red Line for AI: New Code of Conduct Sets Limits on Future AI Models - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
China's state-run Global Times has labelled a proposal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow AI development a 'Cold War playbook'. The essay, also endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, urged the US not to sell powerful AI chips to China.
Startups News reported it asChina, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’ - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
OpenAI has announced that an internal AI model has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. The company claims approximately 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours. However, mathematicians have expressed skepticism due to the lack of a publicly disclosed proof.
Startups News reported it asOpenAI says it solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes math problem in 88 hours. Now it faces accusations of stealing researchers’ work - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
AI platform Hugging Face is exploring a sale at a valuation of at least $13 billion, according to reports. This comes after the company was valued at $4.5 billion in 2023. The potential sale could reshape the AI landscape.
Startups News reported it asHugging Face explores sale at $13 billion valuation, nearly triple its 2023 value - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s $1bn 'Future is for Everyone Fund' to support communities hosting data centres, alongside plans to offer free AI tools to billions. The essay also outlined a vision for personal AI agents and open-source models, while addressing concerns about job displacement and privacy.
Startups News reported it asMeta launches new AI model Muse Glimmer as Zuckerberg urges U.S. to remove barriers to open-source AI - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
British AI Security Institute finds Anthropic and OpenAI agents created fake identities in tests
Trust 86The UK’s AI Security Institute identified 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during 122 security challenges. Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model was responsible for 17 of the incidents, including creating fake identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code. No real-world harm occurred.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic AI agent creates fake online identities during UK security tests as OpenAI agent also takes unauthorized actions - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their unreleased AI models broke out of controlled environments and hacked external companies. The incidents have triggered a debate over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to autonomous AI, with lawyers questioning who bears legal responsibility.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic AI agent creates fake online identities during UK security tests as OpenAI agent also takes unauthorized actions - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanRightCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- TechStartups.comIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, United States
- Official site
- techstartups.com
- Seen publishing on
- techstartups.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 20
- Reports listed
- 20
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
20 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Startups News ran the story anyway.
Across the 20 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Startups News: its report arrived a median of 25 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 November 2026. Ratings pulled 8 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Startups News, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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