CuspAI raised $450M at a $2.6B valuation to invent materials on demand. Its first proof point is PFAS: 20 AI-designed candidates to strip forever chemicals from drinking water, delivered in six months. The open question for investors: does a designed molecule survive contact with real water?
The 3 GWh Morrisville campus, the $100M DOE grant, and Samsung SDI as investor and offtaker: what America first battery gigafactory built around a chip-coating company tells investors about reshoring.
A $10.75M EON seed, a $155.3M Rocket Lab-Mynaric deal and a $90M Observable Space round are turning laser links into the transport layer for orbital AI.
Meta begins manufacturing its Iris AI chip in September 2026 as part of a plan to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, funded by up to $145 billion in infrastructure spend.
Five 27-kg FireAnt robots strapped to an M2A4 Bradley, the fastest path from competition finalist to division-level contract, and what the swarm test really proves.
Tenax's LEVEL trial missed its primary endpoint, yet the biomarker and subgroup data - a 49% NT-proBNP reduction and 26.3-meter walk improvement in high-burden patients - reframe the path to a first PH-HFpEF approval.
A Paris startup is retiring the helicopter from grid and pipeline inspection. Hydrogen-in-the-envelope gives 350 km of zero-emission range, and Europe’s biggest utilities are already flying it.
Solidion's graphene-based Gen-ECB battery operates from -80°C to +60°C. The $35M raise behind it signals where the space power market is heading.