Just one month after raising $11.75 million in a round led by Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, African defensetech Terra Industries announced that it’s raised an additional…
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Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure |
Neysa, an Indian AI infrastructure startup, has secured backing from U.S. private equity firm Blackstone as it scales domestic compute capacity amid India’s push to…
As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck |
Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i…
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI |
In Brief Posted: 2:28 PM PST · February 15, 2026 Peter Steinberger, who created the AI personal assistant now known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI.…
What the Epstein files reveal about EV startups and Silicon Valley |
After the Justice Department released a trove of new documents tied to infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, journalists digging through them have found extensive connections…
Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI? |
In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PST · February 14, 2026 Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a…
AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem
AI companies have been hemorrhagingtalentthe past few weeks. Half ofxAI’sfounding teamhas left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI…
Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline |
Fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has hit a key milestone in its quest for fusion power. Plasmas inside the company’s Polaris prototype…
Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back |
Two years ago, Luke Bailey had what became a controversial app idea — a dating app called Score for people with good to excellent credit.…
Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot |
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of…