2025-04-30

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

A new crowd-trained way to develop LLMs over the internet could shake up the AI industry with a giant 100 billion-parameter model later this year. [...]

2025-04-29

In his first 100 days, Trump’s tariffs are already threatening the AI boom

Startups, chipmakers, and investors are feeling the early shocks of a new trade war that could stall AI innovation just as it’s reaching critical mass. [...]

2025-04-29

States and Startups Are Suing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Critics of the NRC say its red tape and lengthy authorization timelines stifle innovation, but handing some of its responsibilities to states could undermine public trust and the industry’s safety r [...]

2025-04-25

The Meta Trial Shows the Dangers of Selling Out

Several founders of hot startups took big payouts and let Mark Zuckerberg gobble up their companies—and came to regret it. [...]

2025-04-24

Meet the Dutch tech stars speaking at TNW Conference

As our favourite Dutch holiday approaches, TNW is celebrating the tech titans shaping the future in the Netherlands. Our beloved home country is the proud parent of a prodigious brood of digital talen [...]

2025-04-24

This VC-backed network is on a mission to tackle well-being crisis with tech

Last year, NN Group and Rubio Impact Ventures launched the NN Social Innovation Startup Award providing grants and mentoring to startups to tackle mental, physical, and financial well-being challenges [...]

2025-04-24

European climate tech funding sunk to five-year low in Q1 — here’s why

Europe’s climate tech startups raised $2.3bn (€2bn) in the first quarter of this year — the lowest total since Q3 2020, according to Dealroom data.  Behind the headline figure lies a complex mi [...]

2025-04-24

AI coding tools could bring us the ‘one-employee unicorn’

As the tools, and other AI agents, gain functionality, billion-dollar startups with a single human employee–or even none–may become possible. [...]

2025-04-23

Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound. [...]