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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 AI startup is cloning consumers so companies can pick their brains
Companies could soon have a new way to find out your shopping habits — by asking your digital clone. Joon Sung Park, Co-Founder & CEO of Simile, an AI startup, told show host Molly O'Shea on the Sourcery podcast released on Monday that the…
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…
Indian AI Startups Navigate US Market Entry: Challenges, VC Support, and Expansion Strategies
Indian AI startups are navigating a complex landscape as they seek to penetrate the lucrative US market, encountering significant hurdles such as securing initial customers, managing high operational costs, and overcoming visa challenges, even with…
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…
Can Undersea Volcanoes Power Cities? A Seattle Startup Just Took The First Step
A geothermal startup aiming to source energy directly from undersea volcanoes just hit a major milestone that could bring round-the-clock clean energy to cities on the northwest coast of the United States and serve as a critical proof of concept…
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.
Intel to acquire Israeli quantum computing startup Classiq for $2.3 billion
Intel is acquiring Israeli quantum computing software developer Classiq in a deal valued at $2.3 billion in cash and stock, marking the largest acquisition in the history of the global quantum computing industry, Calcalist reported. The transaction…
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…
Could Fusion Plants Pay for Themselves With Gold? A US Startup Claims It Turned Mercury Into Gold, but Key Data Are Missing
San Francisco startup Marathon Fusion says it has used neutrons to turn mercury into stable gold, a feat long associated with alchemy. In an Oct. 21 post on X, the company said it was 'turning mercury into real, stable gold,' at a rate 10 times…
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…
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