October 7, 2025

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

The Department of Energy appears poised to terminate funding for a pair of large carbon sucking factories that were originally set to receive more than $1 billion in government grants, according to a department issued list of projects obtained by MIT Technology Review and circulating among federal agencies. The projects include the South Texas Direct…

August 2025

No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

August 28, 2025
Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users,has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico.

Investors are loving Lovable

August 28, 2025
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion.

The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

August 28, 2025
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use  —Casey Crownhart Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. That’s about…

Get ready, EV owners: Here come the dongles

August 28, 2025
The transition from CCS to NACS will unlock thousands more fast chargers for many EV drivers, but they’ll need to know their adapters to get the most out of it.