Beth Turner, who backed giants like Anthropic and Stripe at SV Angel, is now flying solo. Her new $45 million fund, Valkyrie, is targeting AI applications, infrastructure, and critical industries like energy. She closed the fund in just five weeks with backing from heavyweights like Jack Dorsey and
At its Re:Invent 2025 conference, AWS announced the Trainium3 chip, claiming 4x performance gains and up to 50% cost savings. The real story, however, is the cloud giant’s aggressive plan to double computing capacity by 2027 to meet soaring AI demand.
FreeBSD 15.0 has been released, marking a major update for the Unix-like OS. It ends support for most 32-bit platforms and introduces a new way to manage the base system using the pkg tool. This could fundamentally change how FreeBSD is maintained and updated.
A new partnership is targeting the supersonic flight market with a radical engine design. UK motor maker Helix is supplying its high-power electric motors to California startup Astro Mechanica for its “Duality” adaptive engine, which aims to efficiently power aircraft from take-off to over Mach 3.
Merck Electronics is investing heavily in Taiwan to support TSMC. Its new €500 million chemical plant in Kaohsiung aims to meet a huge chunk of local demand for critical chipmaking materials.
A new AI voice startup called Gradium has launched with a massive $70 million seed round. The company is a commercial spinout from the non-profit Parisian lab Kyutai and is backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
In a sponsored article for VentureBeat, Apptio’s GM makes the case that FinOps and ITFM are failing without unified data. The company’s Technology Business Management platform aims to be the “financial intelligence layer” connecting cost to business value across cloud, apps, and workforce spend.
First Digital, the Hong Kong firm behind the FDUSD stablecoin, is reportedly planning to go public via a SPAC merger. This comes as its token’s circulation has crashed from a $4.4 billion peak last April to about $920 million today.
Yahoo and AOL email services are down for thousands of users, with login issues reported across the US and UK. The companies have confirmed they are investigating the outage, which began around 10:50 AM ET.
For the first time, scientists have recorded the crackle of electrical discharges within dust storms on Mars. This discovery confirms a long-held theory and has major implications for understanding the planet’s chemistry and planning future exploration.
