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  • Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms

    Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with venture capitalists to raise capital at a valuation of nearly $10 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round, if it transpires, would come about three months after Anysphere completed its previous fundraise of $100 million at a […]

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  • SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure

    SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly halted flights into major Florida airports and appears to have diverted some others out of […]

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  • Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors

    The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain.

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  • From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste

    A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers. It will be using the new […]

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  • Dutch startup QuantWare seeks to fast-track quantum computing

    Big tech companies aren’t sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But although all of these can be considered to be breakthroughs, quantum startups often focus on more practical advancements — and they are making progress. Founded in 2020, Dutch startup QuantWare is one of these, which claims […]

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