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This Startup Wants to Reach Alpha Centauri in 80,000 Years. And It'll Only Cost $15 Million
The founders of a Seattle-based nonprofit want to be the first to launch a spacecraft toward the nearest star system, although they're hoping they will be among the last to get there. This week, the Fermi Explorer Mission announced an ambitious…
Gen Z Is Fed Up With Fizzy Alcohol Drinks and Startups Are Cashing In: 'No Bubbles, No Troubles
Bars are getting flatter. Vodka waters are replacing vodka seltzers, tequila and soda is now tequila and water. It turns out Gen Z is fussy about the fizz in their drinks. Non-carbonated drinks made up 38% of new product launches in the $22 billion…
Bureau of Prisons faces scrutiny over startup's exclusive deal to sell non-FDA-authorized nicotine pouches to prisoners
A Florida company that was established in May won an unusual and potentially lucrative deal to be the only business permitted to stock the commissaries of the Bureau of Prisons' 118 institutions with flavored nicotine pouches. The brand of 6-mg…
A Startup General Counsel Knew What Corporate Lawyers Needed From AI. So She Built It.
When an executive at Replit suggested that Cecilia Ziniti seemed distracted by artificial intelligence, she was not an engineer working on the coding startup's AI products. She was its general counsel. The executive told her ‘You're a great…
5 Ukrainian Startups Turning Deep Tech Into Real-World Solutions
Ukraine's technology sector is producing far more than software services. A new generation of companies is developing products in healthcare, clean energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence — and some of these projects have now…
The harmless logo your PC shows at startup has a terrifying security problem
I'm sure you've seen a logo flash onto your screen during your computer's boot process. It's the friendly embrace of the manufacturer's logo, come to remind you who built your hardware. Except for when a UEFI vulnerability called LogoFAIL…
33East backs Cyprus-founded Piney as startup expands to US market
Cyprus-based venture capital firm 33East has invested in Piney, a Cyprus-founded property operations startup that has raised €1.6 million as it expands from Europe into the United States. 33East said Piney's progress demonstrated what could…
OpenAI Astra Cybersecurity Reveal: Skip Legacy Cybersecurity, Buy Zscaler (ZS)
Zscaler is rated a buy due to its leading zero-trust cybersecurity solutions, which are well-positioned to counter escalating AI-driven threats. Despite recent stock underperformance and slowing growth (~25% YoY), I expect ZS to benefit from a…
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion valuation led by…
Barilla's Goodles acquisition reflects growing health food M&A trend
Barilla's acquisition of Goodles follows a familiar formula of pairing startup innovation with multinational scale.
Funding the future: A look back on federal tech investment
In 1992, Klee Dienes was an MIT undergraduate working as a manager of the university's web server and paying for cheeseburgers with student loans. Around him, a government research network called ARPANET was becoming the internet. One day, he…
Why Nvidia's 'defensive move' to acquire Hugging Face is about much more than chips
Nvidia's $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face puts it closer to millions of AI developers and one of the industry's most important open-model platforms. Analysts say the deal helps Nvidia protect the open-model ecosystem that drives demand for its…
Saudi's $8.1B beauty market dominates Gulf
Saudi Arabia's $8.1 billion beauty market is forecast to grow 8.7% annually through 2030, almost double the global average. It's already the Gulf's largest, accounting for more than half of regional sales, according to Euromonitor data cited by…
Why a 2026 marketing shelf needs Byron Sharp more than the latest AI paperback
In late 2015, when Gary Vaynerchuk's Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook had already been on shelves for two years and Ryan Holiday's Growth Hacker Marketing was still a reference text on acquisition thinking, a working marketer could reasonably read six or…
OpenAI unveils latest AI model amid rising scrutiny and safety concerns
OpenAI has announced the release of what it says is its most advanced AI model, amid heightened scrutiny of the risks of the frontier technology escaping human control. The $852bn start-up said in its announcement on Thursday that GPT‑6…
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