Astroscale opens new headquarters and R&D lab in Toulouse
The new site will enable the company to scale its R&D, grow its supply chain, and deepen collaboration with Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French Space Command, the European Space Agency and European defence stakeholders.
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Honda changes plan to build production plant for fuel cell module
The original plan was to utilize part of the land and buildings of a former Honda Powertrain Unit Factory in Moka City, and begin operation of a dedicated plant to produce the next-generation fuel cell module developed independently by Honda.
Meter raises $170 million in Series C funding
Meter delivers reliable, secure and scalable internet, Wi-Fi, and cellular connectivity for the enterprise. The company built networking infrastructure from the ground up: enterprise hardware, firmware, software, deployment operations and support
Muon Space secures $90 million to expand satellite production
Muon has also acquired propulsion startup Starlight Engines, which further extends Muon’s vertically integrated Halo platform by bringing in-house propulsion capabilities into its end-to-end satellite technology stack.
Georgia Tech, Stryten install lead BESS for advanced research
The installation aims to create a living-learning lab on campus that supports research and real-world applications of medium-duration energy storage solutions. Lead BESS was selected due to its cost-effectiveness, high discharge rates and recyclability.
NXP Semiconductors completes acquisition of TTTech Auto
The open and modular offering of the NXP CoreRide platform and TTTech Auto’s MotionWise safety middleware helps automakers overcome software and hardware integration barriers, while reducing complexity and development efforts and increasing scalability and cost-efficiency required for next-generation vehicles.
Indian drone maker Raphe mPhibr secures $100M in Series B round
Raphe mPhibr has logged over 1 million km of flight and developed India’s first indigenous state-of-the-art military grade autopilot and lightweight internal combustion engine.
ROHM launches isolated gate driver IC optimized for high-voltage GaN devices
When combined with GaN devices, this driver, BM6GD11BFJ-LB, enables stable operation under high-frequency, high-speed switching conditions, contributing to greater miniaturization and efficiency in high-current applications.
Neuranics to establish facility backed by Glasgow’s $220M investment zone
Neuranics’ project, in partnership with Kelvin Nanotechnology and the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, will create a new nanofabrication centre establishing world-leading manufacturing capability for magnetic sensor technology.
Kolb opens New Delhi office to strengthen India presence
Germany-based Kolb Cleaning Technology GmbH has officially opened a liaison office in New Delhi as part of its strategy to expand in the fast-growing Indian electronics manufacturing market.
SCS relocates to new custom-built site in Switzerland
Specialty Coating Systems (SCS), formerly Comelec SA, has relocated its Swiss operations to a new custom-built facility.
IBM, RIKEN unveil first IBM Quantum System Two outside of US
IBM Quantum System Two at RIKEN is powered by IBM Quantum Heron, the company’s best-performing quantum processor to-date. Its connection to Fugaku will enable RIKEN teams to use quantum-centric supercomputing approaches to push forward research on advanced algorithms.
BatX gets government backing for commercialization of recycling tech
Indian startup BatX Energies has developed a proprietary low-temperature, low-pressure hydrometallurgical process that is agnostic to lithium-ion battery chemistries. Its dual-mode black mass recovery tech ensures high separation efficiency and recovery rates of up to 97–99%.
Amazon to invest $13 billion in Australia’s data center infrastructure
The investment will support the strong growth in customer demand for cloud computing and AI, accelerating AI adoption and capability, and the continued modernization of Australian organizations of all sizes.
Canada’s Photonic to open quantum R&D facility in UK
Photonic will establish the UK facility over the next three years, creating over 30 high-paying jobs and investing more than USD 33 million.
Nuvve launches BaaS to help electric cooperatives slash energy costs
Nuvve’s BaaS model enables utilities to deploy scalable battery energy storage systems — including at the substation level — without requiring significant upfront capital investment and delivered through 10 to 12-year service agreements.
Saab wins $140M Giraffe 4A radar systems order from Sweden
Giraffe 4A will further strengthen Sweden’s ground-based air surveillance and offers a mobile modern sensor, enabling software-based updates.
Canatu receives purchase order for semiconductor inspection membranes
Finnish company Canatu is a supplier of inspection membranes for EUV mask inspection. The use of these membranes reduces damage to EUV optics and enhances quality control during EUV mask inspection.
India’s Oben Electric raises $11.4 million in Series A funding
The fresh capital will be deployed to expand the company’s footprints across the country, accelerate product development of its ‘O100’ platform for affordable electric motorcycles, and scale up manufacturing at its Bengaluru facility.
Factorial launches AI-enabled digital twin platform to boost battery innovation
Unlike traditional AI platforms focused solely on system-level modeling, Gammatron fuses electrochemistry, thermodynamics, and high-fidelity lab data — to simulate and optimize battery behavior at both the material and cell-system level.
Report: Apple considers using AI to design its chips
Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies, said one of the key lessons the tech giant learned was that it needed to use the most cutting-edge tools available to design its chips.
Voltfang raises €15M to boost grid resilience across Europe
With this new capital, German cleantech startup Voltfang aims to scale its production capacities and deliver an additional 250 megawatt-hours of sustainable battery storage across Europe by the end of 2026.
Northrop integrates spacecraft for space robotic servicing system
Integrating the US Naval Research Laboratory’s robotics payload onto MRV brings SpaceLogistics closer to delivering the first commercial spacecraft with robotic servicing capabilities for commercial and government satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit.
DRDO, IIT Delhi demonstrate free-space quantum secure communication over 1 km
Free-space Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) eliminates the need to lay optical fibers. The experiment attained a secure key rate of nearly 240 bits per second with a quantum bit error rate of less than 7%.
NYK unveils Japan’s ‘first fully battery-driven work vessel’
Designed without an onboard diesel generator, the vessel named “e-Crea” will support the docking and undocking of tugboats at the Koyasu Shipyard.
InCore unveils SoC generator: from idea to FPGA validation in minutes
At the heart of this innovation is Indian fabless semiconductor startup InCore’s SoC Generator, a powerful automation platform built to radically simplify and accelerate SoC development.
AMD unveils Instinct MI350 Series GPUs, showcases Open AI ecosystem
AMD and its partners showcased how they are building the open AI ecosystem with the new AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, the continued growth of the AMD ROCm ecosystem, and the company’s powerful, new, open rack-scale designs and roadmap.
Taiwan adds China’s Huawei and SMIC to export control list
The two Chinese companies, who are already on a US trade blacklist, have been put on Taiwan’s “Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List” together with many of their international subsidiaries.
Deep-tech startup Vecmocon raises $18M in Series A funding
Indian deep-tech startup Vecmocon Technologies plans to utilize the funds to expand its market presence and focus on advancing capabilities in embedded design, power electronics, IoT and data science.
French space tech startup Look Up secures €50M in funding
The participation of European national funds and an institutional EU fund in Look Up’s capital reflects a shared ambition to give the company a European dimension amid an unprecedented geopolitical context.
Autonomize AI raises $28M to power next-gen agentic AI for healthcare
The funding will be used by the company to rewire healthcare operations with its Agentic AI Orchestration platform, enabling healthcare knowledge workers to focus on delivering better patient care by reducing the administrative burden that drives cost, clinician burnout and fragmented experiences.
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