Marvel Picks The ‘Doomsday’ Hero That ‘May Be Able To Stop’ Doctor Doom

Marvel has deemed on specific hero as the strongest chance at taking on Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. An unlikely one.

Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing

Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of…

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…

Chinese RAM company CXMT makes a $484 billion stock market debut
Chinese RAM company CXMT makes a $484 billion stock market debut

The China-based memory firm ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had a massive first day on the Shanghai stock exchange after its shares surged 466 percent, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. The stock market frenzy boosted CXMT’s valuation to $484 billion, making it the most valuable Chinese company listed on the exchange. […]

As SAP’s 2027 support cutoff nears, Pranay Raj Kanakala shows what compliance-ready SAP migration actually looks like
As SAP’s 2027 support cutoff nears, Pranay Raj Kanakala shows what compliance-ready SAP migration actually looks like

A telecom RF engineer turned SAP consultant, he automates the accounting logic that decides when companies can book revenue, the compliance layer most migration teams leave until an audit forces it. In 18 months, the software many of the world’s larges…

Porsche is cutting another 5,000 jobs. Total layoffs now approach 9,400.
Porsche is cutting another 5,000 jobs. Total layoffs now approach 9,400.

Porsche will cut another 5,000 jobs by 2035 under a second restructuring package agreed between management and labour representatives. The cuts come on top of 3,900 job reductions and an additional 500 announced by CEO Michael Leiters earlier this year…

This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom
This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom

Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Ventures, Shine Capital and Industrious Ventures joining…

The Hunt For Natural Hydrogen Shifts To The Philippines

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at why Tesla’s founders are backing an anti-Cybertruck and Sila’s expanding production of silicon battery anodes.

Who Killed Criston Cole In ‘House Of The Dragon’ Episode 6?

A woman killed Criston Cole last night in House of the Dragon episode 6, but she wasn’t some random character.

A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years
A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years

A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup founded by Serbian and Hungarian entrepreneurs, has closed a Series B led by the venture arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction …