by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology
In a Pacific conflict, the nearest U.S. drone factory is thousands of miles away. Ships and planes carrying parts to the front lines would be vulnerable to attack. Defense startup Firestorm Labs thinks the answer is a drone factory that fits inside a shipping...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology
BMW i Ventures has launched a new $300 million fund with a timely thesis: AI will reshape how the automotive industry operates. And the independent venture arm of BMW AG wants to be in the driver’s seat. The fund, announced on Wednesday, will invest in early-stage...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology
Shapes, an app where humans and AI characters chat together in shared group conversations, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding. Think Discord, but with AI characters alongside humans. Founded in 2022, Shapes has more than 400,000 monthly active...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology
For most data engineering teams, managing pipeline reliability often means waiting for an alert, manually tracing failures across distributed jobs and clusters, and fixing problems after they’ve already hit the business. Agentic AI needs the data to be there,...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 28, 2026 | Technology
The world today is riven by cultural differences, political divisions, and geopolitical disputes — a challenging environment for any investor hunting for startups that can grow large enough to deliver venture-scale returns. Kompas VC has developed a regionally...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 28, 2026 | Technology
Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI wasn’t the charity he claims was stolen from him (we all knew that was coming). It was about an old friend. Musk testified that one of his core motivations for co-founding...
