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Berlin drone maker Stark Defence raised 500M from Sequoia and Founders Fund, valuing the two-year-old kamikaze drone startup at more than three billion euros.

Airbus, ASML, Ericsson, Mistral, Nokia, SAP, and Siemens want the EU to cut rules faster, rethink mergers, and build European champions before the US and China pull further ahead.

Samsung and SK Hynix workers could earn up to $477,000 each in profit-linked bonuses, and the Bank of Korea says the payouts threaten price stability.

Honda R&D signed a joint research agreement with QuantumScape to develop solid-state batteries, making it the second major automaker after Volkswagen.

LastPass notified customers that personal data and support cases were stolen after hackers breached Klue and used stolen OAuth tokens to access Salesforce.

Crypto firms have spent years trying to convince banks that they're safe to do business with. Even now, with far more regulation in place than a few years ago, plenty of those firms still get turned away at the door. Jelizaveta Paskovskaja,

HaloBraid raised $7M led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six to build a robotic braiding assistant that finishes braids in seconds for salon stylists.

Meta debuts $299 smart glasses under its own brand with 12MP camera, 3K video, and Muse Spark AI, while keeping its EssilorLuxottica partnership intact.

From a living lab in Breda to the big fragrance houses, software is widening who gets to create a scent. That is worth celebrating.

Claude outage: Anthropic's latest wobble lands after model suspensions and repeated error reports from Anthropic.