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British-German defence startup Hypersonica has raised €100m in a Series B round to accelerate development of its hypersonic missile system. The weapons travel at more than five times the speed of sound, making them difficult to intercept.
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Space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion.
Hello Group, the Nasdaq-listed company behind dating apps happn and Coffee Meets Bagel has acquired a majority stake in Amsterdam-based dating platform Inner Circle. The two companies announced the deal today but did not disclose the price or the size of the stake.
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year’s dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
Elon Musk says SpaceX is adding two more sites to its Colossus 2 AI computing complex in Memphis. He calls them Gun Range and Spam. Musk gave the update on X on Sunday, as Lauren Edmonds reported for Business Insider.
Elon Musk has given $474 million to political groups during the 2026 midterm cycle, an analysis by The New York Times has found. No donor has given more in a single election cycle, apart from wealthy candidates who paid for their own campaigns.
Elon Musk says Grok Bot was costing SpaceX too much to run for the money it brought in. He said so on X on Sunday. He was replying to subscribers whose weekly usage of the AI agent had run out days early. One user, posting as Doge Norway, asked him for a reset.
NHS England lists 29 hospital trusts as “realising benefits” from Palantir’s data platform. Those trusts say the system is not live, or that they do not use any of its applications. Robert Booth reported the findings for the Guardian on Monday.
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