Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering …
On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middl…
Nexchip Semiconductor filed for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, joining a stampede of Chinese chip companies turning to the city’s capital markets as Beijing pours resources into building a domestic semiconductor supply chain that…
The Israeli deeptech, which uses 70% less energy than conventional carbon capture methods and has already signed with Shell, Mitsubishi, and C-Questra, is expanding into Europe’s industrial decarbonisation market as EU regulatory frameworks mature. Rep…
The Swedish deeptech company has signed a Grant Agreement with the European Commission under the EU Innovation Fund, unlocking €40.3M of a €83M project to expand its Tibro plant to 23,000 tonnes per year capacity by 2030. The material is already NATO-a…
The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tuesday that its partnership with Exotec, a French warehou…
The six startups were selected from over 2,000 applications and will receive $500,000 to $2 million each.
When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind…
A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pressing military capability shortfall. The phrase ‘air defence gap’ has become one of the defin…
The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this story that could have been told three years ago and would have raised eyebrows in polite Europea…