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European AI startups raised €5.9B in venture debt in Q1 2026 alone, with average deal sizes up 2.5x. Here's why that changes the risk for anyone holding common stock.
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European AI startups raised €5.9B in venture debt in Q1 2026 alone, with average deal sizes up 2.5x. Here's why that changes the risk for anyone holding common stock.

Starting February 2027, every phone sold in the EU must have a user-replaceable battery that survives 1,000 charge cycles. Here's why that will change phones sold worldwide.

OpenAI's second sandbox escape in three months went through the same overlooked door as the first: DNS resolution. Here's why it's so hard to close, and what actually works.

Perplexity's Comet went from a $200-a-month subscription to free for everyone in under nine months, and it ships with ad and tracker blocking on by default. Publishers call agentic browsers a '3 percent problem' today. The trajectory is what should worry them.

Bitget's $464 million User Protection Fund was supposed to be the industry's answer to exchange hacks. A single September breach, suspected to be North Korean state hackers, is set to consume 76% of it — and that's the fund working as designed.

SpaceX has built the biggest rocket ever flown. The harder problem is keeping fuel cold enough, long enough, to transfer it between two spacecraft in orbit — and NASA's entire lunar timeline depends on solving it.

University of Houston researchers broke a 30-year ambient-pressure superconductivity record at 151 Kelvin — and AI-driven material search is why discoveries like this are accelerating.

88% of AI coding agent pilots never reach production — and the real bottleneck isn't model intelligence, it's that monorepos built for humans are hostile to fixed-context AI agents.

Steam Deck price hikes, MSI's dedicated-GPU handheld, and an Xbox-branded Windows device show the handheld gaming PC market splitting into distinct products for distinct buyers, with prices now ranging from $573 to $1,699.

NIO's swap network passed 120 million swaps in 2026 while every Western automaker doubled down on faster plugs. The split reveals two very different bets on how EV infrastructure should work.

Unitree sells its robots outright starting at $4,290. Figure AI rents theirs for $1,000 a month. The split mirrors the cloud-computing shift — and reveals where the real money will be made.

Three weeks after patches shipped, 122,000+ MikroTik routers are still exposed. The bug wasn't the hard part — figuring out who's responsible for updating forgotten hardware is.