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Yesterday — 16 April 2026Main stream

U.S. Navy Drone Tests Fail After Starlink Outage, Exposing Pentagon’s Reliance on SpaceX

16 April 2026 at 16:04

A routine Navy exercise off the California coast turned into a quiet stress test of the Pentagon’s tech stack. When SpaceX’s Starlink network went down during a global outage last August, more than two dozen unmanned surface vessels lost contact […]

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NanoTech raises $29.4M Series A to protect U.S. infrastructure from extreme heat and wildfires

15 April 2026 at 19:05

Extreme heat is no longer a seasonal inconvenience. It’s becoming a structural problem for buildings, roads, and public assets across the U.S. At the same time, wildfire risk continues to climb, pushing infrastructure owners to rethink how they protect what […]

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Allbirds pivots from shoes to AI after 99% collapse, stock surges 300% on NewBird AI plan

15 April 2026 at 18:11

Allbirds is attempting one of the wildest reinventions in recent memory. The sneaker company that once became a Silicon Valley favorite, reached a valuation of more than $4 billion, and turned sustainability into a brand identity, is now abandoning shoes […]

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AI chats aren’t private: Your AI chatbot conversations could end up in court, lawyers warn

15 April 2026 at 15:51

People are opening up to AI in ways that would have sounded strange a year ago—asking for advice, testing arguments, even walking through legal strategies. That shift is now colliding with a hard truth from the courtroom: what you tell […]

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nEye.ai raises $80M to scale optical circuit switching for AI data centers

14 April 2026 at 19:21

AI’s growth is hitting a physical wall. More chips and bigger clusters aren’t enough when data can’t move fast enough between them. That’s the gap nEye.ai is chasing, and investors are backing the bet with fresh capital. The Silicon Valley […]

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Deutsche Boerse acquires $200M stake in Kraken to deepen push into crypto markets

14 April 2026 at 15:46

Europe’s largest exchange operator is putting real money behind its crypto strategy. Deutsche Börse said Tuesday it has acquired a $200 million stake in U.S.-based crypto exchange Kraken, tightening a relationship that started late last year. The investment comes through […]

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