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Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuation from earlier this year, when it crossed the €1 billion mark. The company is 18 […]

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Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G

Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base stations to double as environmental sensors. The agreement was signed at LG Science Park in Magok, Seoul, with Samsung Research, the advanced R&D division within […]

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Nvidia has spent $6.5 billion in three months to replace copper with light inside AI data centres

Nvidia has committed at least $6.5 billion to photonics companies since the beginning of March, making it the largest single investor in the technology that many in the industry believe will replace copper wiring as the backbone of AI data centres. The spending spree reflects a calculation that copper, the standard medium for moving data […]

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Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.

Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Gulf’s ambition to become a global AI hub is facing its first real stress test. Before the conflict began […]

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This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.

Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a four-armed robot designed to work inside space stations. In microgravity, legs are useless. Helios replaces them with two extra arms that serve as both mobility aids and working hands. The design logic is simple. Two arms anchor the robot to the station interior while the other […]

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AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.

In 1985, the best computer a reasonably affluent American could buy was the IBM PC AT, which cost $19,400 in today’s money. Today, a Tecno Spark Go costs $30 in a Nairobi market stall and runs a processor billions of times faster. No other good in history has experienced a cost decline on that scale. […]

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South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the wealth created by artificial intelligence must benefit the wider public, warning that the labour tensions that nearly shut down Samsung Electronics this week are not an isolated event but a preview of what the AI era will produce. Speaking to CNBC on Friday, Bae said that […]

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Corsair is now using Chinese DRAM in its DDR5 kits. Memory prices could finally drop.

Corsair, one of the most recognisable names in PC components, is shipping DDR5 memory modules built with DRAM manufactured by ChangXin Memory Technologies, China’s largest memory chipmaker. Screenshots posted on X by hardware enthusiast @wxnod show a Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 module, part number CMK5X16G3E60C36A2, with CPU-Z and HWiNFO64 identifying the DRAM manufacturer as ChangXin Technologies […]

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ICEYE secures a €300M revolving credit facility from a seven-bank syndicate

The Helsinki-headquartered SAR-satellite operator has originated a 3-year committed RCF led by Citi and Danske Bank, calibrated to back customer-contract guarantees and underwrite continued global expansion after the company doubled in size in 2025. ICEYE, the Helsinki-headquartered synthetic-aperture-radar satellite operator, has originated a €300m three-year committed revolving credit facility, the company said on Thursday. The […]

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Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab

The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based deeptech company building autonomous infrastructure for materials R&D, announced plans on Wednesday for a 6,000-square-metre, €280m facility in Berlin called GigaLab, designed […]

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