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Xona has cleared its final regulatory hurdle — the FCC has authorized full deployment of Pulsar, its 250+ satellite constellation and the first private network cleared to broadcast navigation signals alongside GPS.

A new The Wall Street Journal piece by Christopher Mims puts sodium-ion in the spotlight — welcome validation for Peak Energy, whose team has spent three years proving it's fundamentally better in every way that matters for the grid.

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Privy co-founder and CEO Henri Stern has been named to Stablecon's Stablecoins Most Influential list for 2026.

Privy co-founder and CEO Henri Stern has been named to Stablecon's Stablecoins Most Influential list for 2026.

Shaped, the machine learning company building real-time recommendation and search systems, has been acquired by livestream shopping platform Whatnot. The deal brings Shaped's technology in-house as Whatnot strengthens discovery and personalization across a marketplace that now spans millions of buyers and a rapidly widening set of product categories.

Antora is commissioning a 5 gigawatt-hour, multi-day thermal energy storage system at POET's bioprocessing facility in Big Stone City, South Dakota. The deployment ranks among the world's largest battery storage projects, delivered at the speed required to meet surging domestic energy demand.

Peak Energy and General Motors have announced a strategic partnership to scale next-generation energy storage for the grid, combining Peak's grid-scale storage platform with GM's battery and manufacturing expertise.To accelerate their market entry, Landscape partnered with Peak Energy to create a category-leading brand and site positioning their Sodium-Ion battery technology…

Variloom is partnering with WoolSource to unlock a new generation of bio-based materials for 3D-printed fashion. By pairing advanced manufacturing with Wool Source's Cradle to Cradle Certified materials, they're redefining what circular design can do—opening new opportunities for innovative and creative products.

A Tasting Menu for La Digestion (or Love Songs for Alice Waters) is a pre-performance essay by Connor Tomaka, Laszlo Horvath, and Satya Paul, shared here as a prelude to their June 5th performance at DOG. Structured as a meal — courses, a digestif, a coda — it moves across…

$355M raised. $4.65B valuation. Congrats to Modal on growing fivefold since September to surpass $300M in annualized revenue.

DataRobot's CPO was featured in Wall Street Journal making the case that real AI value comes from end-to-end workflow transformation, not individual productivity gains.

For DOG [E23] Taxonomy of Slop, Ruby Justice Thelot delivered a compelling lecture arguing that AI slop isn't a new phenomenon so much as the latest expression of dynamics that have been with us since the medieval fabliaux and Victorian penny dreadfuls.

Overview Energy just signed a 1 gigawatt-capacity reservation with Meta for space-based solar power — a landmark moment for the category.

Congrats to team Xona on their $170M Series C. We're proud to partner with Xona as they build the next era of satellite navigation and the future of positioning from orbit.

Our client Gravity was featured in Forbes on why the operational case for acting on energy and emissions data holds regardless of regulatory cycles. Worth a read.

Congrats to Gantri and Ian Yang on the Inc. feature. Proud to partner with a team proving that 3D printing at scale isn't just possible — it's the future of thoughtful design.

Disability-forward housing is getting the national spotlight it deserves — congrats to the team at The Kelsey for pushing this movement forward and the feature in New York Times.

Overview Energy's Chief Commercial Officer Abdullah Al-Shakarchi on why directability changes the equation for grid-scale energy—and why space-based solar is the solution.

Congratulations to Curative on raising their $150M Series B at a valuation of $1.275B driving momentum for their mission to redefine accessible care.