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Quantum Space, a startup with plans to build highly maneuverable spacecraft for the U.S. military, announced plans to go public through a $1.2 billion merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. In a season of mega-IPOs, there’s something almost quaint about a SPAC — in 2021, a fad for going public through the vehicle began in the space sector and spread throughout the tech world. Many SPACs proved disastrous for retail investors who wagered on immature companies, but a few deals, notably Rocket Lab and Planet, proved successful. Another positive outcome was Intuitive Machines, a purpose-built…

London’s hospitality businesses could find it easier to secure new licences and extended trading hours after Mayor Sadiq Khan pledged to use new powers to overrule objections he believes are holding back the capital’s night-time economy.The mayor’s plans come amid an ongoing debate over licensing in Soho, where residents’ group the Soho Society voted to lobby against new licensing applications for pubs, bars, and restaurant businesses.This move has sparked concern and criticism among hospitality operators, who argue that this kind of opposition to new licences could make it harder for venues to grow, invest, and create job opportunities in one…

Researchers at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) outline in a perspective paper how high-performance materials for batteries, hydrogen technologies, wind turbines, energy conversion, chemical processes and modern electronics can be designed to be more sustainable, safer and more resource-efficient in the future. This is intended to address growing dependencies on critical raw materials, limited recyclability and performance losses in practical use. Source link

India’s AI model output has been slow compared to the U.S., Europe, and China. Only a few startups are releasing models, and most of them are large language models or voice models. To encourage more development, the government launched the India AI Mission, a roughly $1.2 billion initiative that — among other things — gives selected startups access to subsidized GPU compute in exchange for releasing their models publicly. One of the 12 startups selected for the program, Avataar AI, has launched a new video model called Varya that is built to understand local context — such as identifying different…

In India, consumers receive a lot of calls every day, ranging from spam and scams to delivery people and financial service companies trying to contact them. There are apps like Truecaller and the government’s Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) system to identify who is calling, but knowing the name of the caller is often not enough. That is why Equal AI is creating an assistant that can receive calls on your behalf, gather information, and tell you why someone is calling. The app is currently available on Android, and since its launch last year, it has grown to more than a…

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics is working with the Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum to build a blockchain-based advertising network aimed at serving the digital ad industry. Arbitrum would give advertisers and publishers a shared database of ad inventory and track how customers interact with advertisements, with the company exploring how to bring the service to market this year, Fortune reported on Thursday.“We are evaluating whether this approach can deliver meaningful value to advertisers, publishers and audiences,” said Samuel Byungsun Park, the head of LG Electronics’ blockchain research lab. LG Group’s headquarters is in Seoul, South Korea. Source: Seoul InstituteDigital ad spend…

As AI agent traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet, companies working in commerce and finance are building tools that allow agents to take action on behalf of users at a rapid pace. Days after trading platform Robinhood introduced agents that can trade for users, Coinbase launched its own agents that can execute trades and pay for premium research. The company said Thursday that users can integrate the agent with their main account and start trading. If users don’t want to give the agent access to their main account, they can choose to have it operate in a separate sandbox.…

Geoffrey Lower, of Stanmer Villas, Brighton, terrified three female victims by sending multiple graphic messages, leaving them voicemails, and turning up at their homes between March and December, 2025. Lower has been sentenced to six years, with three to be spent in prison and three on extended licence. During police interviews, Lower claimed he thought the women – aged 24, 35, and 51 – were interested in a relationship with him. Some of Lower’s victims were women who worked for agencies assigned to support him after prior stalking offences. One victim had to start working from home because she feared…

Social network Bluesky launched support for group chats on Thursday, another feature designed to make the app more competitive with its larger competitor, X. While Elon Musk-owned X recently doubled down on chats with the launch of a stand-alone XChat app, Bluesky is only now catching up by offering a way for groups to interact more privately on its platform. The feature, which is arriving in the latest version of the social app (v1.124), is one of the first to deliver on Bluesky’s plan to focus more on communities, rather than trying to be a social network where people post…

There’s a problem that most organisations using AI tools aren’t talking about openly: individual productivity has jumped, but company-wide output hasn’t kept pace. People are getting faster in their own lanes, but the work still fragments when it comes together. Miro has made this the central problem its latest platform updates are designed to solve. At Canvas 26, its annual customer event held in San Francisco on 19 May 2026, the collaboration platform announced a series of updates to its AI workspace that aim to bring human-to-human collaboration, human-to-agent workflows and agent-to-agent processes onto a single shared surface. The argument…