Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology
Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a singl…

Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves
Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves

Science can already tell you what a molecule is and what it looks like. What it has never been able to tell you, cheaply and at scale, is how the thing behaves once it meets the messy conditions of the real world. That gap is where drugs quietly fail i…

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline f…

Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud
Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and which need the power of data centre hardware. CEO Aravin…

A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy
A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy

Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The rou…

A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle
A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle

701x, a Fargo-based agricultural technology company, has closed an oversubscribed Series B round exceeding $10 million, funded entirely by local investors from North Dakota and Minnesota and rancher-customers across the United States. No venture capita…

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.
GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.

GoPro warned on Monday that there is “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The action-camera maker reported a 26% revenue decline in Q1 and expects to breach several loan covenants. Shares fell as much as 14%. …

Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI
Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI

Gigascale Capital, the venture firm led by former Meta chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, has raised a $250 million fund to invest in energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals startups. The fund, announced on Monday, is Gigascale’s seco…

Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares
Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares

Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing company, has increased the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion after demand from investors far exceeded the original allocation. The company is now offering 26.5 million sha…

QTREX is betting on the layer beneath quantum computing
QTREX is betting on the layer beneath quantum computing

The quantum computing industry has spent the last three years measured almost entirely in qubits. Willow’s 105. Nighthawk’s 120. The 540-qubit superconducting platform that integrated nearly 700 control lines into a single cryostat last year. The qubit…