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SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in history. The conflicts of interest are staggering.
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with

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Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.
Eighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the compa

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A new way to improve your chances
What is it worth to increase your chance of success? Or to reduce the chance of a costly failure? For most of modern history, we have not been able to answer th

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Geely says it will stop building factories and start borrowing everyone else’s instead
Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that

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A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.
Mark Lanier, the folksy Texas litigator who doubles as a part-time pastor, held a jar of M&Ms in front of the Los Angeles jury and told them that each one repre

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Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks
Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transforme

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More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.
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. T

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Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.
Three months after Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under 16 from holding social media accounts, its online safety regulator says

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China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.
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

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Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding
The Copenhagen-based health AI company built Symphony on peer-reviewed research from the largest medical coding study of its kind, treating coding as a reasonin

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Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform
The Berlin fintech, which raised $2.2M in pre-seed in July 2025, has connected clients managing €2 billion in structured debt portfolios to its continuous monit

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Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”
The Tallinn-based platform, formerly WOIS.io, hosts over 1,000 professionals including Rovio co-founder Peter Vesterbacka and ex-Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John.

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Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant
The Swiss startup’s Turbe project at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam will be the first commercial deployment of its aerobrew methanol-to-jet technolo

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Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M
The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via bac

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Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.
The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought

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The Multi-Hop Challenge: Understanding Indirect Blockchain Exposure in Compliance
Public blockchains operate as permissionless networks where anyone can send digital assets to any address at any time. This open architecture creates a fundamen

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.
At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud re

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ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout
Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI v

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OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time
There is a number that keeps getting larger, and on Tuesday it got larger again. OpenAI announced that it had closed its latest funding round with $122 billion

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South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze
When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immedia

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Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties
In the small hours of Tuesday morning, something unexpected appeared on iPhones across mainland China. Apple Intelligence, the suite of AI-powered tools that th

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Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents
The Brussels-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup counts Orange among its early enterprise customers, which deployed a customer onboarding agent in four weeks.

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EnerVenue lands $300 million to bring NASA’s space batteries down to Earth
For decades, nickel-hydrogen batteries have been the quiet workhorses of space, powering the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope through

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ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner
The Palo Alto small-EV company raised $200M in a Series C led by Greenoaks, with DoorDash investing alongside a multi-year commercial agreement to deploy purpos
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