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yahoo.com - Tim De Chant - Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Yahoo!

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…

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…

cyprus-mail.com - Cyprus Business Now: economic slowdown, startups, fuel, shipping, Selk, DCO
Cyprus Business Now: economic slowdown, startups, fuel, shipping, Selk, DCO
Cyprus Mail

Cyprus is a member of the DCO, an international multilateral organisation focused on promoting inclusive growth in the digital economy and advancing what it describes as digital prosperity for all. On the sidelines of Cyprus' “Shaping the…

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…

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.

rediff.com - Shine Jacob - India Achieves Quantum Cooling Milestone
India Achieves Quantum Cooling Milestone
Rediff.com

This is one of the coldest temperatures achieved in a research facility in India with more than 80 per cent domestically sourced components. In a milestone for India's quantum-computing hardware ecosystem, Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV) has…

techcrunch.com - Anna Heim - He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he's doing that for robots.
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he's doing that for robots.
TechCrunch

You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon be almost as…

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…

businessinsider.com - Melia Russell - It's harder than ever to raise a fund.' Here's one emerging manager's advice.
It's harder than ever to raise a fund.' Here's one emerging manager's advice.
Business Insider

In artificial intelligence's funding bonanza, a tiny circle of startups can stack billion-dollar rounds in quick succession, while everyone else fights for what's left. Less obvious is that the same squeeze is happening to the venture capitalists…

rediff.com - Text Feed - India's Quantum Technology Breakthrough: Dilution Refrigerator Reaches 4 Kelvin
India's Quantum Technology Breakthrough: Dilution Refrigerator Reaches 4 Kelvin
Rediff.com

India achieves a significant quantum technology milestone as its indigenous Dilution Refrigerator successfully reaches four Kelvin at the Amaravati Quantum Reference Facility, propelling the nation's capabilities in advanced cryogenic engineering…

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