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Fargo-based 701x closed an oversubscribed $10M+ Series B with zero VC, funded by ranchers and locals. Its satellite GPS ear tags monitor cattle health, fertility, and location.

Blue Origin says fuel tanks and the support tower survived the New Glenn explosion, pledging to fly again this year as NASA depends on the rocket for Artemis moon missions.

Palo Alto Networks' $100M CEO pay package has been rejected by shareholders 7 times, the most in the S&P 500, despite the stock gaining 800% under Nikesh Arora.

The IMU-endorsed Leiden Declaration warns that AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and research autonomy, calling on mathematicians to protect their discipline from corporate exploitation.

SpaceX's first employee Tom Mueller raised $500M for Impulse Space at a $4.26B valuation, building space tugs for commercial and Golden Dome defence customers.

A Virginia man is suing Amazon over Ring's Familiar Faces feature, alleging it scans and stores passersby's faces without consent. He seeks at least $5m.

Taiwan's military research institute demonstrated three Ghost Robotics robot dogs, including an armed version, that could one day patrol the Pratas and Itu Aba.

A "knife fight" between Commerce, intelligence agencies, and pro-industry factions has paralysed US AI policy, with Trump scrapping an executive order and no framework in place.

Meta is expanding its movie-ratings-inspired 13+ content settings for Teen Accounts worldwide, and testing a way to stop teens seeing content on repeat.

Alphabet's Verily wants EPA approval to release 64 million Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes in Florida and California, using AI-powered sorting and breeding at industrial scale.