Radioisotope batteries are about to end the two-week lunar-night blackout
Most recent commercial lunar landers in 2024-2025 died within their first two-week lunar night — solar power cuts out, batteries drain, and electronics freeze.
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Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of Fortune 500 supply-chain spend
Freehand, months out of stealth, raised $75M co-led by Battery, NewRoad, PSP Growth and Nexus for autonomous agents that run supply-chain spend at Meta, Unilever, J&J, Pfizer, Dunkin' and Cardinal Health. The bet: a 21x gap between the $16B software bill and a $348B labor pool.
LifeMine raises $263M to replace the immunosuppressants that damage transplant kidneys
LifeMine closed $263M across Series D and E, led by Milky Way with Bezos and Gates as new backers, for LIFE-001: a fungal-genome calcineurin inhibitor that keeps immunosuppression but drops tacrolimus kidney damage. Reads: kidney Phase 2 and islet Phase 1b, data 2027-2028.
State Grid ordered 8,500 robots: the largest embodied-AI procurement on record
State Grid, with a famously allergic maintenance department, issued a 2026 embodied-AI plan for 8,500 robots: 5,000 quadrupeds, 3,000 dual-arm robots and 500 humanoids. The 6.8B yuan (~$1B) order is the largest on record, and it shifts grid inspection from a labor line to a capex line.
How to evaluate small modular reactor stocks in the 2026 hyperscaler buying spree
Big tech has committed more than 9.8 GW to small modular reactors for AI data centers. NuScale holds the only NRC certification, X-energy pulled a billion-dollar IPO, and Antares closed $470 million. Here is how to weigh the developers, fuel suppliers and rate-base players this cycle.
Eclipse Space: the founders who left SpaceX to sell, not build, the next LEO constellations
Eclipse Space left stealth on June 26, founded by the people who scaled Starlink. The next build is fabless: design the satellite and keep the IP, assemble it in-country with a local partner. First hardware ships before end-2026, the demo satellite flies in 2027.
Satellites now detect five million tonnes of leaked methane a year. That is becoming a market
Satellites and AI now detect over five million tonnes of methane a year from oil and gas. GHGSat runs a commercial constellation, Kayrros was folded into Energy Aspects, and the IEA uses satellite data. The business is owning the workflow between orbit alert and repair.
Contraline raises $92.5M to build the first reversible male contraceptive market
Contraline raised a $92.5M Series B to fund NES/T, a once-daily hormonal gel, through Phase 3 and advance ADAM, a non-hormonal implant, toward the first reversible male contraceptive product. It weighs a funded pipeline against the acceptance gap that sank earlier programs.