Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals
When Earth AI started hitting months-long delays in its search for critical minerals, it decided to take…
Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry
The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents…
Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field
A defense startup just raised $82 million to put drone factories inside shipping containers and bring manufacturing…
BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun
BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as…
Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.
Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation
The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi.
Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.
Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp.
We visited Scout AI’s training ground where it’s working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control…
How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world
Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups…
At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
It’s a story Musk has told before — in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his…