08 Jul 2026
Exclusive: Fi is bringing Starlink satellite technology to dog collars
Jonathan Bensamoun has a 100-pound German Shepherd named Thor—and a story every dog owner knows. A few years ago, while in the Hamptons, his perfectly-trained shepherd spotted a family of deer. “He looks at me, looks at the deer,” Bensamoun recalled. “And he just bolted.” For several minutes, Bensamoun was powerless. Luckily Thor returned on his own. That moment is what Bensamoun built Fi—a smart…
02 Jul 2026
Boston Dynamics’ New Atlas Humanoid Robot: ‘Order Of Magnitude’ Simpler
Boston Dynamics's new Atlas robot is kicking soccer balls like a World Cup athlete. But it's also much simpler — and cheaper — to make than before.
23 Jun 2026
A company outside Boston just craned the second 48-ton half of a steel donut into Tokamak Hall and pushed its compact fusion reactor to 75% built, a machine ch…
For decades the recipe for a fusion reactor barely changed: build it enormous. A tokamak traps a cloud of gas hotter than the Sun inside a magnetic field, and for most of fusion’s history the only way to make that field strong enough was to make the machine huge. That is why ITER, the giant international reactor going up in southern France, is the size of a cathedral and has been under…
23 Jun 2026
Morning Minute: Fomo's $75M Raise Shows Big VCs Are Still Betting on Consumer Crypto
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors fall 3-7% as stocks sell off; BTC at $62.3k Saylor raises $300M in cash; MSTR…
19 Jun 2026
ElevationSpace Secures US $40 Million in Series B Funding, Bringing Total Raised to US $63.5 Million
ElevationSpace Inc. (CEO: Ryohei Kobayashi), a company developing Space-to-Earth transportation as well as a Space Environment Utilization and Recovery Platform, has raised a total of US $40 million in its Series B round through a third-party allotment of shares from investors including SPARX Asset Management, Beyond Next Ventures, Energy & Environment Investment, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Toyoda…
11 Jun 2026
The space economy’s next frontier is in ground infrastructure, Northwood Space CEO says
In the last six years, a surge of satellites in orbit has triggered what Northwood Space Chief Executive Bridgit Mendler called the “infrastructure building era” of space. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado on Tuesday, Mendler emphasized how massive leaps in launch capacity and spacecraft manufacturing are supercharging the space economy.
05 Jun 2026
Xpeng loses robotics product head as 2026 mass production target looms
The Xpeng Iron humanoid robot showcased at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: CnEVPost The sudden personnel change comes at a critical time as Xpeng sprints toward its goal of mass-producing humanoid robots by the end of 2026.
04 Jun 2026
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion.
03 Jun 2026
What Happened To Crypto Startup Funding? Deal Count Falls To A Five-Year Low
Venture capital in crypto has never looked more paradoxical. Monthly deal count has collapsed to levels not seen since before the 2021 bull cycle. Yet billion-dollar rounds keep arriving right on schedule. That divergence tells a precise story about where power inside the crypto investment ecosystem has shifted. And for most early-stage teams, the news isn't good.
