A startup is using AI to find lithium deposits directly beneath Europe's battery factories
Volkswagen and LG have giant battery plants in Germany and Poland. A US startup thinks there's lithium sitting right beneath them
This startup has raised $12 million to make liquid-metal circuit boards rewritable
Itera's electrowetting platform redraws circuits to eliminate repeated fabrication and assembly cycles
This startup just raised $140 million to build wave-powered AI data centers at sea
It plans to move from prototypes to commercial offshore compute nodes powered by ocean energy
A startup says it can replace home sprinklers with sound waves. Fire safety experts say show us the data
Sonic Fire Tech uses inaudible low-frequency sound waves to suppress flames without water
Former Google and Meta engineers build memory-first AI server to challenge Nvidia's GPU dominance
Majestic Labs claims 1,000x the memory capacity of GPU systems with its new Prometheus AIU server
Typing with your brain might soon be as simple as wearing a beanie
High-density EEG sensors and AI models aim to decode internal speech without implants
Slack chats and internal data from failed startups are finding a second life in AI training
Developers are buying emails, documents, and code to train AI on real-world workflows and decision-making
This $35,000 computer made of living human neurons can run Doom
Biotech startup is now selling rack-mounted computers powered by brain cells
The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI
PDFs are structurally hostile to large language models
Looking ahead: Three decades after Adobe introduced the Portable Document Format – a design intended to preserve the appearance of printed pages across devices – PDFs are facing pressure from a completely different kind of reader: artificial intelligence. The same fixed layouts that made PDFs indispensable to human users now make them difficult for large language models to interpret. Unlike web pages or plain-text files, columns, embedded graphics, and hidden metadata in PDFs often confuse machine parsing systems trained to process linear text.
Bill Gates-backed fusion startup begins licensing for futuristic reactor in Tennessee
Type One Energy's Infinity One project marks a shift from fossil power to fusion ambition
AI agents push battlefield autonomy closer to reality in military tests
Scout AI integrates large models to plan, target, and execute autonomous strikes
This fusion energy startup thinks it can cut lasers out of the equation
A small engineering tweak could remove one of fusion's costliest hurdles
New York startup builds foam-covered humanoid inspired by WALL-E, not Terminator
Fauna Robotics bets that friendly robots will be more successful than powerful ones
Startup claims light-based chip could deliver 10x Nvidia's performance at similar power
First look: Light, not silicon, may define the next leap in computing power. That's the bet Austin-based startup Neurophos is making as it challenges the idea that Moore's Law still governs the pace of performance progress. The company is developing a photonics-driven processor designed to do what decades of transistor scaling can no longer achieve: massive compute throughput without a proportional explosion in energy use.
This startup is betting that the Moon needs hotels, not just rockets
GRU Space wants to build lunar habitats using inflatable structures and Moon-made bricks
These smart glasses that refocus instantly could make bifocals obsolete
New liquid-crystal lenses blend optics and electronics in a 22-gram frame
These paper batteries made from plants want to replace AA and AAA cells
Moving from tech demo to real production
Forward-looking: What started as a curiosity at CES 2025 has quietly matured into one of the show's most convincing sustainability narratives a year later. Flint, the Singapore-based startup developing a fully cellulose-based paper battery, is now in production and gearing up to supply its renewable power cells to major electronics partners, including Logitech, Amazon, and Apple accessory maker Nimble.
Startup FuriosaAI moves toward mass production with an AI chip aimed at Nvidia
The Seoul-based startup's NPU promises high performance with lower electricity draw
AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jensen Huang are among the biggest beneficieries
A German startup is turning cockroaches into cyborg spies
Strapping electronics to insects and calling it robotics, but will it work?
A Japanese startup built a speaker that's basically a sheet of fabric
New electrostatic design turns the entire textile surface into a sound emitter
Intel's CEO is also a major startup investor, and it's starting to get messy
How Meta, Intel, and a venture capitalist-CEO collided over a $4 billion AI chip startup
California startup's new fire-suppression system uses sound instead of water
Infrasound technology offers a new line of defense against wildfires
Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is back in chipmaking with an xLight deal worth up to $150M
Gelsinger pitches free-electron lasers as next step for Moore's Law
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave company to form AI startup
An offer that the AI Godfather couldn't refuse?