Sam Atlman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks
The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year.
MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting
The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category. The shortlisted story—“We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard”—is part of the publication’s Power Hungry package on AI’s energy burden. AI is often described…
Google Deepmind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it’s a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. Google DeepMind first demoed SIMA (which stands for “scalable instructable multiworld agent”) last year. But…
Your Story Isn’t Just Branding — It’s a Blueprint For Beating the Competition
From choosing a name others doubted to creating a culture that feels like home, this is how naming our restaurant turned identity and mission into a business blueprint.
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
Bindwell applies AI drug discovery techniques to invent new pesticide molecules.
EU launches antitrust probe into how Google’s anti-spam policy affects publishers’ search rankings
The Commission said on Thursday that it had identified that Google is using its spam policy to push news media and other publishers’ websites and content lower in search rankings when they include content from third parties.
Harbinger raises $160M, will build trucks for FedEx
The Los Angeles-based startup will build more than 50 electric truck chassis for the delivery giant by the end of this year.
Spotify introduces a Premium Platinum plan with lossless access in five markets
Spotify is debuting a new tiered premium plans in five markets with the costliest tier gaining access to lossless streaming.
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Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you
Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.
Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3bn five months after its previous round
Cursor plans to use the capital to continue developing Composer, the AI model the vibe coding startup released in October.