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Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?
The U.S. government has long had an on-again, off-again relationship with the fusion power sector. As of last week, it's definitely back on. Helion and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) received awards totaling $260 million from the Department of…
This startup's self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding
Bedrock Robotics has raised $600 million in a funding round that values the autonomous vehicle technology startup at $4.1 billion, marking a speedy ascent for the two-year-old company. The Series C round, co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital…
This Texas startup is turning oil well waste into EV batteries
Across the Permian Basin, the vast, mineral-rich swath of land in West Texas that supplies much of the nation's crude oil, derricks pump out massive amounts of oil, roughly 6 million barrels a day. But that amount pales in comparison with the…
Sunlight at night: US startup's demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism
Locals in a rural area of California were recently startled to see dazzlingly bright light shining down from nearby mountains at night, illuminating a swathe of the desert below. Unbeknown to them, the strange nocturnal illumination was the latest…
Seoul Fintech Week 2026 brings AI finance and startup investment into focus
Seoul is bringing financial technology startups and global industry leaders together this week to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) could reshape personal finance while opening new paths to investment and growth for emerging businesses.
AI startups raise $198.7M for marketing, commerce and CPG operations
Azoma, Profound and Opply raised a combined $198.7 million to expand AI tools for product discovery, marketing and CPG operations.
California Startups Have Raised More So Far In 2026 Than The Entire US Ever Has In A Single Year
California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share. But that's not all. As investment hit unprecedented levels in 2026, Golden State companies…
AI is giving cybercrime a makeover, and this startup just raised $15 million to fight back
AI is giving the digital criminal underworld a makeover. In fact, though rogue AI agents dominate talk of the future, AI has already changed cybercrime for good, said Arjun Bisen, cofounder and CEO at digital threat detection startup Overwatch.
Pittsburgh startup swaps plastic pill bottles for paper
A Pittsburgh startup has a new prescription for plastic waste: a mostly paper pill bottle. Why it matters: Billions of plastic prescription bottles are discarded annually in the U.S., and Point Breeze-based Parcel Health aims to replace them with…
EU-Inc: is the EU's startup booster losing steam?
EU-Inc wants to create one single, fully digital framework that lets startups bypass the red tape of 27 different legal systems and operate seamlessly across the entire single market. By introducing this unified '28th regime,' the EU wanted to stop…
Former Biden Speechwriter Accuses NY Times of Stealing News Startup's Pollution Reporting Without Attribution
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Investigative outlet Hunterbrook accused The New York Times on Sunday of using elements of its earlier reporting without proper credit in a front-page investigation into President Donald Trump's…
Deep tech startup infrastructure moves from prototype to scale - SiliconANGLE
Across energy, defense, space and applied AI, deep tech startup infrastructure is moving out of the lab and onto the factory floor. The startups building it are no longer trying to prove that the physics works. They are proving that it can be…
Autonomous excavator startup Bedrock Robotics picks up $600M in funding - SiliconANGLE
Bedrock Robotics Inc. today announced that it has closed a $600 million investment led by Alphabet Inc.'s CapitalG fund and Emergence Capital. The Series C round also drew contributions from Nvidia Corp., Bessemer and over a half-dozen others.
Tin Men Capital leads US$7.4M Series A for Vision AI startup Ailytics to expand across APAC, US and Gulf
SINGAPORE, Oct. 25, 2026 /CNW/ -- Ailytics, a vision AI startup that turns existing industrial CCTV into a real-time safety and operations layer, has raised US$7.4 million in a Series A led by Tin Men Capital. SEEDS, part of SG Growth Capital…
Cyprus can become a regional gateway for startups
Through ANIMA's extensive work across Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa, how do you see the startup and innovation landscape evolving across these regions, and where are the most significant opportunities emerging? Entrepreneurs…
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