Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI
Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
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Federal immigration agents filmed making airport arrests as Trump calls in ICE to ease security line delays
The Trump administration has deployed ICE agents to over a dozen U.S. airports amid an ongoing federal shutdown that's causing long wait times. Eyewitnesses have already recorded at least one arrest in San Francisco's airport.
The 100-Year Quest for Fusion Energy with Steven Cowley, Director of PPPL
Fusion energy has long been called the “holy grail” of clean power because in theory it’s cheap, abundant, clean, and safe. Yet despite 100+ years of scientific research and billions in investment, the profound engineering challenges associated with fusion-based power are far from settled. Join us for a fireside chat on April 21, 2026 with Sir Steven Cowley, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Cowley is widely considered one of the most in
Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video
The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct challenge to the architectural limits of diffusion-based video generators. Every AI video model currently on the market produces the same thing: a flat […]This story continues at The Next Web
Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap
A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pressing military capability shortfall. The phrase ‘air defence gap’ has become one of the defining anxieties of European security policy in the years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The […]This story continues at The Next Web
360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime
The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this story that could have been told three years ago and would have raised eyebrows in polite European venture circles: a deeptech fund, backed by a major defence prime, raising tens […]This story continues at The Next Web
Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise
For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The large teams, the committee structures, the distributed decision-making, these were treated not merely as operational choices but as a kind of institutional legitimacy. Nathan Benaich has spent the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk offers to pay TSA workers as partial government shutdown continues
Ala., discusses long TSA lines due to the partial government shutdown and Elon Musk's offer to pay TSA personnel on ‘The ...
Elon Musk announces ambitious $20B Terafab project to manufacture chips for space-based AI
Billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Musk announced Saturday that his companies will collaborate on a new, $25 billion ...
Elon Musk Announces $20B "Terafab" Chip Plant In Texas As Step Toward Space-Based, AI-Powered Civilization
Elon Musk said he was going "make science fiction real" and help push the Earth up a step on the Kardashev scale, on Saturday ...
Elon Musk unveils mega AI chip project Terafab for Tesla and SpaceX in Austin; says it will ‘redefine chip manufacturing at scale’
Elon Musk announced Tesla's ambitious Terafab semiconductor project in Austin, Texas, a massive chip fabrication facility to ...
Elon Musk offers to pay TSA workers' salaries amid DHS budget standoff
Elon Musk has offered to cover the salaries of TSA personnel during the ongoing funding impasse disrupting airports ...
The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future
After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet.
Do you want to build a robot snowman?
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.
You thought the generalist was dead — in the 'vibe work' era, they're more important than ever
Not long ago, the idea of being a “generalist” in the workplace had a mixed reputation. The stereotype was the “jack of all trades” who could dabble in many disciplines but was a “master of none.” And for years, that was more or less true. Most people simply didn’t have access to the expertise required to do highly cross-functional work. If you needed a new graphic, you waited for a designer. If you needed to change a contract, you waited for legal. In smaller organizations and startups, this wa
Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi
Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.
Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla
Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising.
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)
Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's table stakes now. What haunts us is the mental image of an agent autonomously approving a six-figure vendor contract at 2 a.m. because someone typo'd a config file.We've moved past the era of "ChatGPT wrappers" (thank God), but the industry still treats autonomous agents like they&#x
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’
An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.