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China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

Nexchip Semiconductor filed for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, joining a stampede of Chinese chip companies turning to the city’s capital markets as Beijing pours resources into building a domestic semiconductor supply chain that can withstand American export controls. The Hefei-based foundry, China’s third largest behind SMIC and Hua Hong […]

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RepAir Carbon opens a Luxembourg office to scale its electrochemical carbon capture tech across Europe

The Israeli deeptech, which uses 70% less energy than conventional carbon capture methods and has already signed with Shell, Mitsubishi, and C-Questra, is expanding into Europe’s industrial decarbonisation market as EU regulatory frameworks mature. RepAir Carbon, the Israeli developer of electrochemical direct air capture technology, has opened a European office in Luxembourg, the company announced […]

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PaperShell secures €40.3M EU grant to build its first full-scale factory

The Swedish deeptech company has signed a Grant Agreement with the European Commission under the EU Innovation Fund, unlocking €40.3M of a €83M project to expand its Tibro plant to 23,000 tonnes per year capacity by 2030. The material is already NATO-approved and shipping to customers in construction, defence, electronics and transport. PaperShell makes a […]

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Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites

The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tuesday that its partnership with Exotec, a French warehouse robotics company, has delivered what it calls significant productivity gains across sites in France, the United […]

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NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the market

When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind the NR-NEXUS inference operating system, has appointed Shalini Agarwal, a product management director at […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships

The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailable at any given time. Ships are queued in dry dock. Maintenance cycles […]

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Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Trainer, a hardware-software system built in collaboration with Scale AI that allows operators to generate high-fidelity robot training data […]

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