Astral Systems raises £23M to make cancer isotopes by fusion

Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round

Delivery robot startup Robot.com bets its next act on wheeled humanoids for kitchens and warehouses

The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes

Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony Ive-era designer. Incoming CEO John Ternus says he’ll fix it.

NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars

17 fusion startups have now raised over $100M each, and the total keeps climbing

A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry

Architect Labs raises $24M to let any company design its own AI chip

While Helsing and Anduril chase billion-dollar valuations, Comand AI raised €32M for the layer above them

85% of NATO’s defence-tech funding goes to the US. AVP and Earlybird raised €500M to change that.

Baseten is raising $1.5bn at up to $13bn, betting AI’s profits lie in cheap inference

Pramaana Labs raised $27M to wrap AI in mathematical proof for law, tax, and drug discovery

Midjourney says its new full-body scanner beats an MRI. It has never built hardware before.

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joins the SpaceX board, days after the record IPO

PsiQuantum breaks ground in Australia on what it says will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer

The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

Henrique Schmaiske and the human work behind Meteor 3.0

The US is paying an AI startup $500M to break China’s grip on chip materials

Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient

Genesis AI thinks the humanoid hype is wrong. Its wheeled robot is the counterargument.

This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.

Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity

IMEC built a chip platform that works up to 325GHz, and it could make 6G hardware cheap enough to actually deploy

Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ returns from seven years in the shadows with a bold new scaling law

Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with a $234m round led by HCLTech

De Beers weaponises blockchain to fight lab-grown diamonds, but a 45% price crash looms large

Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.

Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever

Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf

What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether