30 Apr 2026
U.S. investors dominate Europe’s private-led space scale-up rounds
U.S.-based General Catalyst led a 150 million euro Series E funding round for Finland’s Iceye in December. While European space startups attract more venture capital, private-led growth rounds remain dominated by U.S. investors rather than regional firms.
30 Apr 2026
Tesla Model X shocks everyone by crushing every other used car in America
Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck’s head-scratching trim sold terribly, recall documents reveal The head-scratching offering was only available for a few months, and...
30 Apr 2026
NewSpace Navigator – Fifth Edition
The global space sector remains on a strong growth trajectory, with recent reports predicting the market could exceed US$1tn by 2034. Activity is driven by sector maturation, increased financing, and the development of space infrastructure.
30 Apr 2026
The trillion-dollar question: Is tech’s massive AI spending actually working?
A frenzied day of earnings reports offered a glimpse at how some of the world’s biggest tech companies are doing in artificial intelligence. The upshot: Alphabet Inc.’s Google is seeing a clear payoff from its AI spending, while Meta Platforms Inc. is lagging behind.
30 Apr 2026
Meta Could Spend $145 Billion This Year Due to AI
Wednesday saw Meta report earnings with revenue increasing 33% this past quarter, its fastest growth since 2021, but its shares dropped more than 7%. The company raised capital expenditures to at least $145 billion for 2026, driven by higher memory chip costs and an AI-driven data center buildout.
30 Apr 2026
Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), saw its net sales increase 28% year-over-year, reaching $37.6 billion, marking the fastest growth rate in 15 quarters. AWS’ success is attributed to its pivotal role in fueling the AI boom, providing compute resources to the industry. Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO, highlighted this growth as unprecedented, comparing it to the early days of AWS, which…
29 Apr 2026
Tech giants double down on AI as earnings reveal growth gains and rising costs
Big Tech's multi-billion dollar AI bets are still on track as the Mag 7 giants report earnings. Four of the Magnificent Seven (Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon) reported quarterly results showing they remain committed to spending billions on AI infrastructure.
29 Apr 2026
OpenAI really really really wants GPT 5.5 to stop randomly talking about gremlins and goblins
OpenAI included a line in Codex's instructions restricting references to goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres. The line appears four times in the code, and has spawned scores of memes about 'goblin mode.'
29 Apr 2026
Startup Fence takes aim at back end of $6 trillion credit market
Startup Fence uses blockchain technology and tokenization to automate processes in the $6 trillion credit market, replacing fragmented manual workflows with real-time data tracking and smart contracts for lenders and asset managers.
