SpaceX buys Cursor maker Anysphere for $60bn, the largest startup acquisition on record 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16
Defense tech startups raise $14.6bn in five months, smashing 2025's full-year record 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-15
a16z closes $15bn Fund VII, the largest VC fundraise in Silicon Valley history 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-01
China blacklists MP Materials and USA Rare Earth, then expands the regime 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-22
Belt and Road runs hottest ever, $213bn in 2025, tilting to energy, mining and tech 15 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-01-19
Skild AI raises $1.4bn at $14bn valuation to build a general-purpose robot brain 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-14
Supabase raises $500m at $10.5bn on 600% database growth driven by AI agents 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-04
YC's Spring 2026 Demo Day fields 196 startups and debuts on-chain USDC seed funding 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16
Tiangong runs a year-long crew stay after an emergency Shenzhou rotation 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-25
Albanese's Nature Positive law stands up a federal environment regulator from July 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-18
After Artemis II's lunar flyby, NASA turns to the harder Artemis III landing 7 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-04-10
Galileo Gen-2 and BeiDou's refit reshape the navigation race as GPS slips behind 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-04
IBM races to verified quantum advantage by year-end as photonics and packaging mature 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
Amazon Leo passes 350 satellites as FCC waives, then penalises, the half-deploy deadline 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-17
Milei's RIGI clears mega energy bets: YPF's US$25bn project, San Matías pipeline 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-02
China readies Chang'e-7 for the lunar south pole as it builds toward a 2030 landing 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-02-02
Marcos balances ASEAN chair against China's Scarborough 'nature reserve' 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-10
AT&T's $14bn Open RAN bet hits 50% of traffic as the standard turns toward 6G 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-10
Starlink Mobile targets 25M users as direct-to-cell becomes a mainstream product 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-03
Amazon's Project Rainier scales toward 5GW Anthropic compute on Trainium 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-10-29
China's Guowang and Qianfan trade the lead past 350 satellites combined 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
US bars Anthropic's most capable models from every foreign national worldwide 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-12
FCC's AWS-3 auction raises $3.5bn, reviving US spectrum sales after a four-year gap 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-20
US transmission inches forward in 2026 as HVDC corridors advance and the gap stays open 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Lobito Corridor reaches the bidding phase as $4bn-plus is committed against a $5bn build 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-04-28
EU delists Brazil's animal exports; Lula lobbies von der Leyen at the G7 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-12
North Korea keeps its five-year arms plan rolling: tactical missiles, new launchers, the Hwasong-20 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-27
On the Saltoro Ridge, the India–Pakistan war that the truce never reached 5 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-12
Stargate's Abilene flagship goes live as Crusoe stacks $15bn to finish it 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-09-23
Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire holds, barely: closed crossings, trades of blame, stalled talks 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-20
Trapped-ion quantum pulls ahead on logical qubits; Quantinuum bets on 2030 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
Pentagon's counter-drone budget nears $1B as lasers and microwaves push toward fielding 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-07-09
China plans 15 new ultra-high-voltage lines to 2030 as power demand passes 10,000TWh 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-14
China drives toward ~140 orbital launches in 2026, a new national record 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-23
Macron lands a record €93bn at Choose France, half of it a SoftBank AI bet 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-01
Intel's turnaround hinges on 14A, and an Apple logo it doesn't yet have on contract 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-18
Kazatomprom guides to a 9% output rise for 2026, but caps it, gated on sulphuric acid 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
AMD's MI450 ramps into OpenAI's 6GW pact, opening a second front on Nvidia 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-10-06
Pentagon's 'Crucible' tests drone swarms as Swarm Forge chases full autonomy 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-31
Leo XIV summons the whole College of Cardinals, a governing method takes shape 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-23
Samsung bets on a memory-plus-foundry dual engine as Tesla and Nvidia knock 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-09
PLA grey-zone pressure on Taiwan normalises as Lai's defence budget stays blocked 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-24
Ukraine's €58,000 'Lima' jammer claims 20,000+ Shaheds spoofed off course 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-10
AUKUS ministers settle Australia on three in-service Virginia-class submarines 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-30
Army hands Anduril a $20B enterprise vehicle, opening with a counter-drone order 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-03-14
Carney names the Mackenzie Valley Highway his first 'national interest' project 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
China's battery storage runs away with the world: one month rivals a US year 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-29
Cocaine output at record highs as Ecuador's ports become the trade's superhighway 12 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-18
Global Witness traces M23 'conflict coltan' through Rwanda into Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia supply chains 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-10
IMEC stays on paper in 2026, no funding, no timeline, a ~$5bn gap to Haifa 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-04-17
Doval hosts the BRICS security chiefs as India chairs the bloc in 2026 12 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-22
Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B to push AI-designed drugs into the clinic 12 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-12
Kazakhstan signs €10bn-plus in EU deals, led by a $7.3bn Air Astana Airbus order 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Kim commissions the Choe Hyon, his largest warship, and declares a nuclear navy underway 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-23
Kim unveils a new enrichment plant and orders 'exponential' nuclear growth 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-04
Nvidia certifies all three memory makers for Vera Rubin HBM4, SK Hynix takes the lion's share 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
Sharif signs the 'Islamabad MoU' as guarantor of the US-Iran ceasefire 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-18
Rosatom bets on a record four foreign reactor start-ups in 2026, sanctions permitting 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-12
Saudi nuclear hedging revives as Riyadh courts US enrichment and Pakistan 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-08
Starship V3 splashes down, but Super Heavy crashes and FAA grounds flights 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-22
US scales up Switchblade buys: Army LASSO pick, $186M order, Marine fielding in June 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-30
Taiwan-Matsu subsea cable breaks again; microwave backup keeps Dongyin online 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-12-24
Uranium plateaus near $86 as a structural supply deficit builds underneath 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
US Navy puts seven robotic-warship designs to sea, $5B behind a 'hybrid fleet' 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-29
Xi rolls out the red carpet for Myanmar's junta chief, and blesses the post-coup vote 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16
BNP sweeps Bangladesh's first post-Hasina vote; Tarique Rahman to be PM 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-12
The H2 2026 ballot map: Russia, Brazil, Israel and a dozen more go to the polls 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-01-09
Rheinmetall says Germany has overtaken the US in conventional ammunition output 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-26
Global Gateway hits its €300bn target, resets to €400bn, and stops adding flagships 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-02-25
Nigeria's anti-Tinubu coalition splits in two as Atiku and Obi run separately 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-19
RTX's Raytheon books $3.7bn Patriot interceptor deal for Ukraine, scales European output 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-14
JNIM's gold war economy bankrolls the Sahel insurgency as juntas raid artisanal mines 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-08
Methamphetamine displaces opium as Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle pivot to synthetics 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-12
Washington wires $2.7bn into enrichment as the West races to de-Russify nuclear fuel 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
US committees brand China's distant-water fleet a 'geopolitical weapon' as patrols ramp up 12 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-15
Macron hosts Meloni at Antibes for the first France–Italy bilateral summit 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-12
Mexican cartels run a $172m illegal-timber trade and launder it into the fentanyl supply chain 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-09
Rheinmetall wins Bundeswehr order to backfill recovery vehicles sent to Ukraine 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-11
Rostec touts arms output 'the West can't dream of' as Russia scales war production 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-08
SMR order book swells on AI power demand: Oklo-Switch 12GW, Rolls-Royce wins Sweden 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Closest Scarborough naval encounter in three years as PLAN frigates shadow a Philippine warship 11 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-23
Colombia swings right by a whisker in the tightest runoff in its history 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-21
India holds the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance; Pakistan warns of 'water war' 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-22
Wheat climbs a fourth straight month as cereals defy a stable headline index 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-05