Holyvolt buys US battery pioneer Wildcat Discovery for $73M
The battery industry has a translation problem. Researchers can identify promising new materials in the lab; the challenge is moving those discoveries through chemistry, engineering
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Evervault raises €21M to keep payment data encrypted from end to end
The Dublin-and-New York-based startup, backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Index Ventures, says it processes more than €4.2bn in transactions monthly and cuts customers’ PCI
OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”
Inaccurate business listings are quietly costing companies customers
TL;DR Moz Local automates local listing management, review monitoring, and reputation management across 90+ directories, starting at $16/month per location on annual billing. A free
TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform
The Madrid tax fintech doubled revenue in 2025 and hit profitability. Now it’s taking on structured debt to scale its AI platform, a sign that
Targeted advertising is also targeting malware
Online ads are increasingly being used a means of introducing malware into organizations, according to The Media Trust. “Malvertising surpassed both email and direct hacks
UK lawmakers back licensing‑first approach, adding pressure to global AI copyright standards
AI developers must obtain licenses for copyrighted material before using it to train models, a committee of the House of Lords, the UK Parliament’s upper
DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A
A seed-stage investment bank for small business M&A raises $750,000 from the backers of Uber and SpaceX. The market they’re targeting is enormous. The question
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are “unreviewable,” DOJ lawyer tells judge
A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal judge Wednesday that anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such ample authority over the
Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing at 1:41 pm ET today.
Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban
MS exec: Microsoft’s next console will play “Xbox and PC games”
Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled garden approach and just run
Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.