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Is UK science in jeopardy? Huge funding reforms spark chaos and anxiety (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-05 | by Adam | related products | tags: funding, physics, projects

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ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11 billion valuation (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-04 | by Ivan Mehta | related products | tags: elevenlabs, funding, investors

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ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequioia at a $11 billion valuation (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-04 | by Ivan Mehta | related products | tags: elevenlabs, funding, investors

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Waymo announces $16 billion funding round (cnbc.com)

2026-02-02 | by Jennifer Elias | related products | tags: alphabet, billion, funding

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Waymo raises $16 billion to take its robotaxi business ‘global’ (theverge.com)

2026-02-02 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | related products | tags: billion, cities, funding

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Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding (theverge.com)

2026-01-30 | by Tina Nguyen | related products | tags: agreement, dhs funding, funding

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NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-30 | related products | tags: cruz, funding, mars

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Tesla sold $430 million worth of its Megapack backup batteries to Musk's xAI in 2025 (cnbc.com)

2026-01-29 | by Lora Kolodny | related products | tags: billion, funding, megapacks

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Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raises $750 million to expand into robotaxis (cnbc.com)

2026-01-28 | by Lora Kolodny | related products | tags: driverless, funding, startup

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Anthropic reportedly upped its latest raise to $20B (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-27 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | related products | tags: anthropic, billion, claude

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Nvidia and Alphabet VC arms back AI startup Synthesia at $4 billion valuation (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | related products | tags: billion, funding, million

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More than half of authors of leading research say funding is declining (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-21 | by Mckie | related products | tags: america, billion, funding

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4 strategies for when you’re going to lose your job but you don’t know when (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-20 | related products | tags: acquisitions, acquisitions funding, anticipatory

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US Congress set to reject Trump’s sweeping science budget cuts (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-20 | by Tollefson | related products | tags: funding, institutes, proposed

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Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot AI's valuation is up $500 million, sources say, after its rivals IPO in Hong Kong (cnbc.com)

2026-01-19 | by Evelyn Cheng | related products | tags: billion, chinese, funding

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Elon Musk is looking for a $134 billion payout from OpenAI and Microsoft (engadget.com)

2026-01-17 | related products | tags: billion, billion billion, filing

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Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts (engadget.com)

2026-01-15 | related products | tags: agency, appropriations, budget

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GoFundMe confirms two campaigns for Ford worker TJ Sabula are verified as funds top $600,000 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-14 | related products | tags: center, center major, criticized

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GoFundMe campaign for Ford worker TJ Sabula quickly tops $90K in latest politically charged fundraiser (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-14 | related products | tags: center, center major, criticized

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US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Tollefson | related products | tags: administration, congress, federal

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Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-08 | by Julie Bort | related products | tags: billion, billion valuation, cyera

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Anthropic signs term sheet for $10 billion funding round at $350 billion valuation (cnbc.com)

2026-01-07 | by Ashley Capoot Kate Rooney | related products | tags: anthropic, billion, claude

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xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-06 | by Amanda Silberling | related products | tags: equity, funding, grok

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years (slashdot.org)

2026-01-06 | related products | tags: broadcasting, funding, future

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Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025 (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anna Heim | related products | tags: billion, europe, european

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Malaria Shows No Sign of Stopping (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | by Posted | related products | tags: children, countries, deaths

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PhDs Can't Find Work as Boston's Biotech Engine Sputters (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | related products | tags: biotech, boston, downturn

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India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-28 | by Jagmeet Singh | related products | tags: billion, capital, funding

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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-22 | by Aatish Bhatia | related products | tags: fewer, funding, grants

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Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | by The Garage Team | related products | tags: agreement, european, fund