Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism IBM to acquire Confluent for $11B as it seeks to bolster its data offerings IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its… Posted by Developer December 9, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales Quilt, the startup based in Redwood City, California, that’s created sleek, customizable heat pumps, has raised $20 million… Posted by Developer December 9, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo’s robotaxi rides Six months ago, Waymo disclosed it was providing 250,000 robotaxi rides a week across its service areas, an… Posted by Developer December 9, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism SpaceX reportedly in talks for secondary sale at $800B valuation, which would make it America’s most valuable private company According to the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX is launching a secondary share sale that would value Elon Musk’s… Posted by Developer December 6, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30% Meta may be planning to make serious cuts to its Metaverse division, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. Company… Posted by Developer December 5, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s VC firm 1789 Capital, has secured a… Posted by Developer December 4, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs Alan Dye, the design executive who led Apple’s user interface team for the last decade, is leaving the… Posted by Developer December 4, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Kalshi raises $1B at $11B valuation, doubling value in under two months Prediction market Kalshi, which allows people to bet on future events, announced on Tuesday that it raised a… Posted by Developer December 3, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation German AI lab Black Forest Labs said on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series… Posted by Developer December 2, 2025
Posted inEmerging Tech & Futurism Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack Nvidia is investing $2 billion into Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips. The deal… Posted by Developer December 2, 2025