Nu Quantum, a University of Cambridge spin-out, has raised $60 million in Series A funding. The startup aims to build the networking fabric to connect quantum processors into more powerful, fault-tolerant systems.
London’s Hummingbird Ventures has a winning, if controversial, investment thesis: back founders with childhood trauma. Partners Barend Van den Brande and Firat Ileri look for “outliers” with grit, leading to huge wins like BillionToOne and Kraken.
A new preprint server, aiXiv, is flipping the script by welcoming papers authored and reviewed by artificial intelligence. Its creators argue the focus should be on quality, not the producer, but critics warn of risks to scientific integrity. The experiment accelerates urgent debates about AI’s role
Uber is partnering with Shopify to bring its one-hour and same-day delivery network to Shopify Plus merchants. The integration, announced Wednesday, December 10, aims to help retailers compete on speed without the cost of building their own logistics. This move heats up the battle for control of the
According to The Economist, the web’s fundamental infrastructure needs an overhaul to enable advanced AI agents. The current system of APIs, built for human developers, is too clunky for machines that reason in natural language.
The annual Day of the Devs showcase, a collaboration between Double Fine and iam8bit, just wrapped up its 2025 digital event. It was an hour-long dive into 22 promising indie games, featuring moody adventures, creepy horror, and physics-based frog chaos.
Is AI in a bubble? Five venture capitalists with billions to deploy hashed it out at a Fortune breakfast. The consensus? Maybe, but the long-term potential is unimaginably huge.
HTC is launching its Vive Eagle AI glasses in Hong Kong on December 10, 2025, part of a push into Greater China. The move comes as the company reports a slight year-over-year revenue dip, hoping expansion will improve performance.
For clean tech startups, federal grants are a lifeline. When the DOE abruptly terminated a major contract, Brayton Energy had to lay off staff, highlighting the precarious nature of government-funded R&D.
A new MIT simulation shows AI is technically capable of handling work worth $1.2 trillion in U.S. wages. But that’s not a forecast of job losses. The real story is how companies like Amazon and Deutsche Telekom are using AI to reshape work, not just cut it.
