Antora Energy closed a $550M Series C to scale thermal batteries that store power as heat in carbon blocks up to 2,400°C — aimed straight at the AI-era power crunch.
Rocket Lab just landed the biggest contract in its history: $266M from the U.S. Space Force to fly up to 18 HASTE hypersonic test launches from Kodiak, Alaska.
Microsoft and Meta reported AI-heavy quarters a day apart. Azure cleared $100B and grew 43%; Meta's free cash flow fell to $784M. Same spending, opposite market verdict.
Spur Intelligence bootstrapped for nine years mapping the internet's shadow traffic. Now Insight Partners has handed the roughly 40-person bot-detection shop $200 million — as bots quietly overtake humans online.
Celcuity's first FDA drug, REVTORPYK, cut breast-cancer progression risk 76% and stretched median control from 2.0 to 9.3 months — yet the stock slid on a delayed launch and rough side effects.
Nvidia is reportedly investing $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence — a two-year-old lab with no product, now valued at $32 billion — for a stake and access to Vera Rubin.
Antares raised $470M to put factory-built microreactors on U.S. military bases — with a hard federal deadline of September 30, 2028 waiting on the other side.
Munich drone maker Quantum Systems closed a $1.2B Series D at an ~$8B valuation, doubling in eight months — with Blackstone, Airbus and Advent leading and 19,000+ Ukraine flights on the resume.
Lilly's triple-G shot retatrutide hit 30.3% weight loss in Phase 3 — surgery territory. Then the FDA filing slipped to Q1 2027 over manufacturing.
China's Psibot just hit a $1.48 billion valuation with automaker Chery leading the round — and it's selling the robot brain, not the robot.
China's Z.AI switched on a 1-gigawatt AI data center running 10,000+ chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon — the exact build US export controls were designed to prevent.
Meshy raised nearly $400M at a $1.5B valuation — the largest AI-3D round ever — to turn text and photos into usable 3D models in about a minute.
