BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun

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...

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 172: Tracking Launches: Views from a NASA Pilot

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Climate Change

Shannon Gregory, chief of flight operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, stands in front of one of the agency’s support helicopters inside a hangar at Kennedy’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory S. HustonHost Andres Almeida: When Artemis II...

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 172: Tracking Launches: Views from a NASA Pilot

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Climate Change

Shannon Gregory, chief of flight operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, stands in front of one of the agency’s support helicopters inside a hangar at Kennedy’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory S. HustonHost Andres Almeida: When Artemis II...

Former US officials criticise Pentagon silence on deadly Iran school attack

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Top Stories

Annie Shiel, a former US official who worked on civilian harm reduction at the state department, said previous cases followed a pattern where the US had “come out and said ‘it was not us’, only for media and [non governmental organisation] reporting...

Startup Blockworks wants to become the crypto equivalent of Morningstar. How it plans to do it

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Financial

Blockworks co-founders Michael Ippolito and Jason Yanowitz speak at an event.Courtesy: BlockworksCrypto startup Blockworks plans to use the proceeds from its previously unreported fundraise to scoop up some of its rivals and become a kind of Morningstar for digital...

Definity embeds agents inside Spark pipelines to catch failures before they reach agentic AI systems

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,...

Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

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...

‘I’m very late to the game’: I’m 48, earn $65,000, have $48,000 in debt and no retirement. Am I doomed?

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Stock Market

“I do not have any inheritance from anyone coming my way as I lost most of my immediate family when young.” Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Why this Soros alum is betting on copper and cables over AI chips

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Stock Market

Renaud Saleur is looking past politics to bank on megatrends like electrification, natural resources and AI bricks and mortars. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Will King’s US visit lead to lasting reset in relations with UK?

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Politics

Before King Charles arrived in the US, British diplomats were pragmatic about how much the state visit could achieve. They knew it could not reset the UK-US relationship entirely. The differences over Iran, Nato, Ukraine, trade and President Donald Trump’s...