🚀 Rocket power! Frontier, backed by Stripe, Google and Meta, is paying Arbor Energy $41 million to build its first commercial-scale power plant that will burn waste biomass to generate electricity for a data center. The plan also involves removing 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. Read More
🔥 Remember that time we split methane? In the early 2000s, engineers at Technit Group inadvertently managed to split methane into pure hydrogen and pure carbon – in essence, burning stuff without oxygen. Then they forgot about it. Twenty years later, that idea turned into hydrogen production startup Tulum, which just closed a $27 million seed round. Read More
💙 Custom blue: Bluesky has released three updates to make it easier for users to personalize notifications and reduce unnecessary alerts. You can now get activity notifications for certain accounts, and can even control which alerts you receive. Read More
🏠 Nm, just buying a house: UAE-based Huspy wants to change how people buy homes online. One of the largest proptechs in its home country, the startup has now expanded to Spain and closed a $59 million Series B led by Balderton Capital. Read More
🔐 Gotta protect corporate secrets: After DeepSeek allegedly "improperly copied" OpenAI's models, the ChatGPT maker has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. Now, for example, only verified team members can access sensitive algorithms and new information. Read More
