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Aspect Aerospace Raises $2.4M To Develop Single-Board Satellites for Space-Based Environmental Monitoring

SOSV portfolio company Aspect Aerospace recently spoke with SpaceNews about two major milestones: a $1.9 million Direct-to-Phase II (D2P2) SBIR award from the U.S. Space Force and a $500,000 pre-seed investment from SOSV.Aspect Aerospace is rethinking how spacecraft are designed and deployed with its Single-Board Satellite (SBS).Instead of launching one conventional spacecraft, Aspect enables a “constellation in a box.” A single host satellite (about the size of a dorm fridge) can carry and depl

Hasbro says it was hacked, and may take ‘several weeks’ to recover

The American toymaking giant noted that it was continuing to "implement measures to secure its business operations," suggesting that the hackers may still be in the company's systems.

Less than a month: StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together

StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.

The end of 'shadow AI' at enterprises? Kilo launches KiloClaw for Organizations to enable secure AI agents at scale

As generative AI matures from a novelty into a workplace staple, a new friction point has emerged: the "shadow AI" or "Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI)" crisis. Much like the unsanctioned use of personal devices in years past, developers and knowledge workers are increasingly deploying autonomous agents on personal infrastructure to manage their professional workflows."Our journey with Kilo Claw has been to make it easier and easier and more accessible to folks," says Kilo

Lucid Motors recalls over 4,000 Gravity SUVs citing improperly welded seat belts

The company struggled with quality issues when Gravity production started last year, and the new recall shows it's not out of the woods yet.

Nothing’s AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds

The glasses will reportedly feature cameras, microphones and speakers, and will connect to a smartphone and the cloud to process AI queries.

Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding

The Copenhagen-based health AI company built Symphony on peer-reviewed research from the largest medical coding study of its kind, treating coding as a reasoning task rather than a labelling problem. It’s available via API now. Medical coding, the process of converting clinical notes, diagnoses, and procedures into standardised alphanumeric codes used for billing, reporting, and […]This story continues at The Next Web

Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform

The Berlin fintech, which raised $2.2M in pre-seed in July 2025, has connected clients managing €2 billion in structured debt portfolios to its continuous monitoring and reconciliation platform, faster than almost any comparable infrastructure startup. Credibur, the Berlin-based infrastructure fintech building operational control software for non-bank lenders and their capital providers, has reached €2 billion […]This story continues at The Next Web

Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”

The Tallinn-based platform, formerly WOIS.io, hosts over 1,000 professionals including Rovio co-founder Peter Vesterbacka and ex-Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John. AI handles routine questions; high-value queries go to the expert via 1:1 asynchronous video. Pickmybrain, the Tallinn-based platform that turns professionals’ expertise into AI-powered “Digital Brains,” has raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round from a […]This story continues at The Next Web

Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

The Swiss startup’s Turbe project at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam will be the first commercial deployment of its aerobrew methanol-to-jet technology, and a blueprint for large-scale e-SAF production across Europe. Metafuels, the Swiss aviation technology company developing synthetic sustainable aviation fuel, has been awarded €1.92 million in grant funding from the […]This story continues at The Next Web

Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via background audio. Its new Sleep Headband targets secure environments where phones are banned. Audicin, the Finnish neurotechnology company using brainwave entrainment and auditory engineering to support nervous system regulation, has raised $1.9 million in […]This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk reveals 'plus side' of quantum computing breaking Bitcoin

Elon Musk has a fresh take on quantum computing threats.

When Will Elon Musk's Tesla And SpaceX Merge? Here's What Prediction Market Is Saying

Elon Musk's xAI and SpaceX merged in February, valuing the company at over $1.25 trillion. SpaceX is now preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). SpaceX IPO SpaceX reportedly plans to raise $75 billion from its IPO, valuing the space exploration company at around $1.75 trillion. SpaceX's confidential filing would show that the company is still targeting a June listing. Don't Miss: High-net-worth individuals often rely on financial advisors to guide key decisions—this short quiz helps conn

Elon Musk must face class action over late disclosure of Twitter stake, judge rules

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said former Twitter investors who accused Elon ...

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a cross-platform remote access trojan. The malicious releases target macOS, Windows, and Linux. They were live on the npm registry for roughly three hours before removal.Axios gets more than 100 million downloads per week. Wiz reports it sits in approximately 80% of cloud and code environments, touch

Meta's new structured prompting technique makes LLMs significantly better at code review — boosting accuracy to 93% in some cases

Deploying AI agents for repository-scale tasks like bug detection, patch verification, and code review requires overcoming significant technical hurdles. One major bottleneck: the need to set up dynamic execution sandboxes for every repository, which are expensive and computationally heavy. Using large language model (LLM) reasoning instead of executing the code is rising in popularity to bypass this overhead, yet it frequently leads to unsupported guesses and hallucinations. To improve executio

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.

Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’

Woven Capital is the growth-stage venture capital arm of Toyota, focused on backing founders building in space, cybersecurity, and autonomous driving.

Anthropic is having a month

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the earliest and most persistent experiments in decentralised virtual worlds, appears to have reached a different […]This story continues at The Next Web