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techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
TechCrunch

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging…

marketwatch.com - Christine Ji - Social media declared Cursor dead. Then SpaceX handed the AI startup a $60 billion lifeline.
Social media declared Cursor dead. Then SpaceX handed the AI startup a $60 billion lifeline.
MarketWatch

Cursor had a rough start to 2026. The AI coding startup once garnered lavish praise for its explosive revenue growth. When prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” in early 2025, he gave an explicit…

cyprus-mail.com - Deep-tech startups bridge research and industry at Limassol event
Deep-tech startups bridge research and industry at Limassol event
Cyprus Mail

Non-profit organisation Cyprus Seeds successfully concluded its participation in the Doers Summit 2026 in Limassol last month, where it reinforced its position as the island's only scientific innovation catalyst by bringing together deep-tech…

technologyreview.com - Will Douglas Heaven - A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs
MIT Technology Review

What's more, Subquadratic says, SubQ does this while more or less matching the performance of the best models put out by Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic on key tasks like coding. The problem was that the company at first provided little…

spacenews.com - Jason Rainbow - Austrian propulsion startup joins sovereign space funding surge
Austrian propulsion startup joins sovereign space funding surge
SpaceNews: The space industry's source

TAMPA, Fla. — Austrian satellite propulsion startup Gate Space has won 6.3 million euros ($7.2 million) in funding from Europe's government-backed accelerator program, joining a wave of European companies attracting capital for greater space…

fortune.com - Ganesh Padmanabhan - I watched enterprises buy AI that solved the wrong problem. So I left Dell and built a startup to fix it
I watched enterprises buy AI that solved the wrong problem. So I left Dell and built a startup to fix it
Fortune

A new drug clears the FDA. Now the health plan has to decide whether to cover it, and that decision sets off a scramble: six or seven specialists, working mostly in sequence, two to three months, and somewhere around $100,000 by the time it's done.

nypost.com - Ariel Zilber - Sen. Gillibrand's 22-year-old son raises $30M for trading startup as Dem champions crypto in DC
Sen. Gillibrand's 22-year-old son raises $30M for trading startup as Dem champions crypto in DC
New York Post

The 22-year-old son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — one of Capitol Hill's most prominent boosters of cryptocurrency legislation — has reportedly raised $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange startup that is already valued at…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI
Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI
SiliconANGLE

Elastic NV has reportedly acquired Deductive AI Inc., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises fix errors in their technology infrastructure. TechCrunch on Thursday cited a source as saying that the deal is worth up to $85 million. That's…

dnaindia.com - DNA Web Team - India's Startup Success Story Is Entering a New Global Growth Phase
India's Startup Success Story Is Entering a New Global Growth Phase
DNA India

It has evolved from an emerging entrepreneurial market to one of the world's largest innovation ecosystems that generates technology startups, fintech platforms, artificial intelligence companies, SaaS firms and unicorns that are well known across…

siliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley - Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding
Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding
SiliconANGLE

Seattle-based startup Gradial today revealed it has raised $65 million in a Series C round of funding to accelerate the development of its agentic artificial intelligence operating system for marketing. Today's round was first reported by Axios and…

cyprus-mail.com - Startups need customers before investors, says seasoned entrepreneur
Startups need customers before investors, says seasoned entrepreneur
Cyprus Mail

Europe's long-term competitiveness will depend less on the amount of money available to startups and more on the strength of the ecosystems supporting them, according to seasoned entrepreneur, policy advisor and angel investor Ana Barjasic.

cyprus-mail.com - Cyprus Business Now: tourism, startups, Persianis, CySEC, consumer prices
Cyprus Business Now: tourism, startups, Persianis, CySEC, consumer prices
Cyprus Mail

In an exclusive interview with the Cyprus Mail, the association stressed that Cyprus serves as a prime example of why European aviation policies must take into account the realities facing islands and remote regions. ERA, which represents more than…

memeburn.com - Marko Nguyen - What Is Z AI? The Chinese Startup Shaking Up the AI Race With GLM-5.2 - Memeburn
What Is Z AI? The Chinese Startup Shaking Up the AI Race With GLM-5.2 - Memeburn
Memeburn - Internet+Culture

If you follow AI news, you have probably heard of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. But there is another name rapidly climbing the ranks that many people still do not recognize. Z AI, the Beijing-based company behind the GLM family of large…

businessinsider.com - Allie Kelly - AlphaFold pioneer who won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
AlphaFold pioneer who won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
Business Insider

John Jumper, a chemist and computer scientist who once won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis, announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. He's the latest Silicon Valley name to jump ship for the AI startup darling. Jumper…

newswire.ca - Resilience Actions, a Re Sustainability Initiative, Launches ECOHUB.IN to Power India's Climate and Circular Economy Innovation Ecosystem
Resilience Actions, a Re Sustainability Initiative, Launches ECOHUB.IN to Power India's Climate and Circular Economy Innovation Ecosystem
CNW

HYDERABAD, India, June 19, 2026 /CNW/ -- Resilience Actions, the social and environmental impact initiative of Re (Re Sustainability), has launched ECOHUB.IN, a sustainability-focused incubator designed to support early-stage enterprises working in…

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