After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. There is a particular kind of European startup story that is not supposed to happen at this […]
Samsung’s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung’s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a particular type of market moment that does not happen […]
iPhone 16 and 15 Pro buyers in the US between June 2024 and March 2025 will get $25–$95 per device. Apple admits no fault. The settled action covers consumers; the parallel securities-fraud case Apple is still trying to dismiss is structurally separate. On Tuesday afternoon, Apple agreed to pay $250m to settle a US federal […]
China has more than 150 humanoid robot companies. It shipped roughly 90 per cent of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025. Its two largest makers, Unitree and AgiBot, are preparing initial public offerings that would value them at a combined 13 billion dollars. Morgan Stanley doubled its delivery forecast for the Chinese market this year […]
The enterprise software industry spent two decades selling seats. Buy a licence for every employee who needs access, multiply by the number of employees, and the revenue model was as predictable as the quarterly earnings calls that reported it. Then AI agents arrived, and the arithmetic broke. In the first quarter of 2026, AI-native spending […]
The United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that referenced the Mona Lisa and the Parthenon, and overseeing the Tropicana packaging redesign that caused a 20 per […]
When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more than 15 billion dollars on Rivian’s first day of trading. Four years later, […]
Duolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.5 million. Paid subscribers grew 21 per cent to 12.5 […]
Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to two counts of attempted murder and nine other state charges. Moreno-Gama, wearing an orange […]
The recycling industry has a labour problem that no amount of recruitment can solve. Staff turnover at waste sorting facilities runs at 40 per cent annually. The fatality rate is eight times the national average across all industries. Work-related injury and ill-health runs 45 per cent higher than other sectors. The work involves standing beside […]
