The global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting…
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Holyvolt buys US battery pioneer Wildcat Discovery for $73M
The battery industry has a translation problem. Researchers can identify promising new materials in the lab; the challenge is moving those discoveries through chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing without losing years and hundreds…
Inaccurate business listings are quietly costing companies customers
TL;DR Moz Local automates local listing management, review monitoring, and reputation management across 90+ directories, starting at $16/month per location on annual billing. A free citation checker lets you audit your business…
TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform
The Madrid tax fintech doubled revenue in 2025 and hit profitability. Now it’s taking on structured debt to scale its AI platform, a sign that its capital strategy is as deliberate as…
DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A
A seed-stage investment bank for small business M&A raises $750,000 from the backers of Uber and SpaceX. The market they’re targeting is enormous. The question is whether they’re early or right on…
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions…
Evervault raises €21M to keep payment data encrypted from end to end
The Dublin-and-New York-based startup, backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Index Ventures, says it processes more than €4.2bn in transactions monthly and cuts customers’ PCI compliance costs by an average of €86,000….
French quantum startup Pasqal to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $2bn valuation
The neutral-atom quantum computing company, co-founded by Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, has announced a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, with the deal expected to close in the second half of…
Revolut applies for a US bank charter
The London-headquartered neobank has submitted applications to the OCC and the FDIC to establish Revolut Bank US, N.A., committing $500m to the American market and appointing a former Visa executive as its…
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk
The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is…