Acrab's edge bet: a $130M wager on 100-billion-parameter AI that runs off the cloud
Singapore's Acrab raised $130M to ship GΞLIX 1, an edge AI chip built to run 100-billion-parameter models without a data center.
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The Microbes Growing Carbon-Negative Cement
Biology is replacing the cement kiln. Prometheus Materials ProZERO uses microalgae to grow the binding mineral, and it is already pouring at commercial scale.
Microbial power-to-X: the bugs turning surplus electricity into methane
Biology is becoming a storage medium. Microbes and archaea convert surplus renewable electricity and captured CO2 into drop-in e-methane and carbon-negative chemicals. The anchor deal is real; the bottleneck is the balance sheet.
Bio-ISRU: How Engineered Microbes Turn Space Resources Into Fuel, Food and Plastic
NASA and ESA are betting that engineered microbes can make fuel, food, plastics and medicine from local space resources — cutting launch mass by up to 85% versus hauling cargo from Earth.
Muon Space's $250M Series C bets on the constellation factory
Muon Space's $250M Series C lifts total funding past $386M. The wager: turn constellation building into a repeatable, vertically integrated factory rather than a sequence of bespoke projects.
Elroy Air's $46M Army Contract Sets Up a Q4 Test of Drone-SPAC Math
Elroy Air converted six years of small federal research bets into a $46 million U.S. Army development contract for its Chaparral cargo drone. With Kratos building in Sacramento and a $1 billion Nasdaq listing ahead, the story now runs through a factory calendar and redemption math.
The Long-Duration Storage Playbook: Which Battery Wins Above Eight Hours
Grid batteries crossed 100 GW of annual additions while venture money fled long-duration storage. Inside the technology ladder, the AI data center deals rewriting demand, and the financing gap that decides which chemistry gets built.
DNA Data Storage Enters the Data Center: Inside Biomemory's Consolidation Bet
Hyunjun Park built the machines that write data into DNA, then ran out of runway. Paris rival Biomemory bought the pieces, and with a Scality partnership in hand it promises racks in real data centers this half. The physics case is settled. The money math is not.