How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world

Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused on the physical world.

At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship

It’s a story Musk has told before — in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk — but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.

Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp

We visited Scout AI’s training ground where it’s working on AI agents that can help individual soldiers control fleets of autonomous vehicles.

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public

Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.

Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans. 

Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation

The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi.

BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun

BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as industrial software, advanced materials, and manufacturing and supply chain technologies.

Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry

The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis.

Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field

A defense startup just raised $82 million to put drone factories inside shipping containers and bring manufacturing to the front lines.

Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.