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Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.
Source: TechCrunch · Tim De Chant
Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
Source: TechCrunch · Marina Temkin
Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments.
Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters assured investors this week that they have nothing to be concerned about. Sure, the company was going to lay off 1,000 employees, downsizing its product, tech, and legal departments, and was ousting its chief content officer, film…
Source: The Verge · Charles Pulliam-Moore
A new Texas-based defense startup has a plan to improve military and police dogs in the US: it's going to genetically modify them and equip them with Anduril's military technology. Warhound is the brainchild of Anduril's Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, co-founder of Colossal…
Source: The Verge · Jess Weatherbed
A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.
Source: TechCrunch · Lucas Ropek
Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create “elite working dogs” equipped with "advanced body armor."
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
Source: TechCrunch · Dominic-Madori Davis
Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family plan users who don't actually live together with a new QR code verification method that requires scanning the plan manager's phone. TechCrunch reports that in…
Source: The Verge · Stevie Bonifield
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
Source: TechCrunch · Julie Bort
Every company is suddenly an AI company. Compute is an asset. Cars are flying. We’ve been promised robots — again. It’s time again to dig through earnings reports, listen to investor calls, and call out the latest wins and losses from around the tech sector and what it means for…
Source: The Verge · Verge Staff
Third Dimension's technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian's reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator.
Source: TechCrunch · Kirsten Korosec