Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose
Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on
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Testing Apple’s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new “performance” cores
Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max make deceptively large changes to how Apple’s high-end laptop and desktop chips are built. We’ve already covered those changes
US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial
The Trump administration agreed to stop pursuing a breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster as part of a settlement that blindsided state attorneys general in
The Oberlo veterans taking on Europe’s restaurant supply chain raise €20M
Lithuanian food marketplace Saltz pulls in a €20M Series A backed by the EBRD, Inovo, Lifeline, and a roster of Baltic tech founders, to digitalise
Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents
The timing is not coincidental. In October 2025, Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools
Anthropic’s US gov’t lawsuit says federal action “unprecedented and unlawful”
Anthropic on Monday fought back against the US federal government’s determination that it is a supply chain risk, suing the feds and arguing to a
Job disruption by AI remains limited — and traditional metrics may be missing the real impact
AI’s impact on human jobs is a hot topic of late, with all kinds of forecasting, reporting, and sounding of alarm bells. But two new
Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion
Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors.
U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy
More solar energy was added to U.S. grids than any other technology, but the amount installed fell by 14 percent, according to a new report.
After falling far behind the rest of industry, Blue Origin creates new stock option plan
Editor’s note: On Monday afternoon, Blue Origin chief executive Dave Limp sent employees an email announcing a “new stock option” plan that would allow all
Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size
At this January’s massive NAMM music tech show in Los Angeles, six products won “best of show” awards. Several of them went to major music
OpenAI robotics chief quits over Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, has resigned over the company’s contract with the US Department of War, saying key safeguards around domestic surveillance and
The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into
Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy’
A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean