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Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days
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Walmart went from zero to 100 charging stations in under two years
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Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
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Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks
GoWish, the Danish wishlist app, is valued at more than $200mn after its last raise
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Letara raises ¥2.6bn (roughly $16mn) for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive
Anthropic could raise $100bn, ten times Europe’s largest listing in decades
Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai
Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together
