Group14 opens factory to produce battery materials for flash charging EVs

The startup’s new BAM-3 facility can make enough silicon anode material annually to supply about 100,000 long-range EVs.

Google Maps is getting an AI ‘Ask Maps’ feature and upgraded ‘immersive’ navigation

The tech giant says the “Immersive Navigation” launch is the biggest update to Maps in over a decade.

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods

A new way to solve data scarcity: Turning qualitative reports into quantitative data with an LLM.

Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B

Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year’s end.

Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B

Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year’s end.

Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker

The hacktivist group claimed the attack was in retaliation for a U.S. strike on a Tehran school that killed more than 175 people, most of them children.

Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are

With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. 

Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank

For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo.  On this episode of… Continua a leggere Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank

How Poppi went from a Shark Tank pitch to a $1.95B exit

For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most beverage brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo.  On this episode… Continua a leggere How Poppi went from a Shark Tank pitch to a $1.95B exit

Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says

According to a Reuters report, a foreign hacker broke into a server that was part of the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein — without realizing they had hacked an FBI server.