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Inside the rise of Europe's defense-tech startups

Kelluu began, as startups often do, in an old shed. The small Finnish company makes airships — think van-sized blimps — originally designed to watch over power lines with cameras. When I met the firm's CEO, Janne Hietala, last fall…

Startup debuts friendly humanoid | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like 'eyebrows' and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and…

Alphabet's robotaxi startup Waymo looks to raise $16B at $110B valuation

Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car business Waymo LLC is looking to raise around $16 billion through a fresh funding round that would hike its valuation to about $110 billion, according to a report Saturday in the Financial Times. Most of the funding…

This UK startup could fix the worst thing about electric cars

Imagine being able to charge your electric car from 10% to 80% in 10 minutes instead of 30. That's the claim of a British startup called Hydrohertz – and it says it has the technology to make such charge speed a reality. Currently, a major…

Israeli startups raised $1.1b in January

Israeli startups raised $1.1 billion in January 2026, according to reports and press releases seen by 'Globes.' The figure may be more as some companies prefer to remain in stealth and sometimes do not publicize the investments they have received.

The Wild Markets Behind Polymarket's 'Truth Machine'

Just before dawn on Nov. 13, 2024, FBI agents smashed through the door of Shayne Coplan's penthouse apartment in Manhattan, barged into his bedroom and grabbed his phone. Federal prosecutors were investigating whether the cryptocurrency-based…

Gov't-backed research firm enters US market as arm of Nasdaq-listed firm

The science ministry said Monday a local artificial intelligence (AI) research firm nurtured at a state-run industrial cluster has become an affiliate of a Nasdaq-listed rare earth supply chain company, effectively entering the U.S. stock market.

Mozilla's anti-AI campaign asks users to choose their future

Mozilla has decided to pick a fight that most of Silicon Valley would rather declare settled. The non-profit tech organisation, widely known for its web browser Firefox, has rolled out a new brand campaign, Choose Your Future, positioning itself as…

Meet the new European unicorns of 2026

January was such a long month that it has already brought us five fresh European unicorns: from Belgium to Ukraine, several tech startups raised funding at valuations above the $1 billion threshold. But before we take a closer look at who joined…

The Dark Side of the AI Boom: Silicon Valley Embraces China's Brutal Work Trend

Sarah, a 28-year-old employee at one of San Francisco's hottest startups, is beyond burned out. She's working a 996 schedule—9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week—a phenomenon that's swept Silicon Valley over the past year amid the AI…

45 Best Subreddits For Marketing & SEO Professionals

Over the last few years, Reddit has risen in influence to be a social channel that Google elevated in it's search engine results for it's user-generated content and also a source of valuable reviews for users. Reddit is constructed as a network of…

Lab Grown Meat Is Failing For One Key Reason, Analyst Claims

For years, the cultivated meat industry has struggled to emerge as a practical alternative to the brutal factory farming sector. The key reason? Perhaps not that lab grown meat isn't a viable product, but that intense regulations have strangled it…

Corrections & Amplifications

Emails Show Even Epstein Thought Crypto Pumps are Unethical

The latest dump of Epstein files from the U.S. Department of Justice has a variety of interesting emails and other documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's early interest and involvement in Bitcoin and the crypto industry. Previous reports…

Union Budget 2026-27: space budget recovers but misses crucial private sector reforms

The Indian space program has moved out of its post-pandemic slump and is entering a phase of sustained, if also cautious, consolidation. Since 2012-2013, the national space budget has grown by 182%. This sounds massive but most of the growth…