The 2026 M&A landscape reflects a sharp and confident rebound following a brief slowdown in early 2025. As geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainties began to stabilize, executive confidence returned quickly. The global M&A market staged a decisive rebound in 2025, marking a sharp recovery after the temporary slowdown experienced in early 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. As geopol...

Breaker’s valuation has increased about fourfold since a pre-seed raise almost a year ago.An artificial-intelligence defense startup seeking to deploy its voice-controlled AI agent across drones and other military technology has raised $6 million in a seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.Breaker Industries, which says its software reduces the work needed to control multiple autonomous s...

Unaffordable Housing Impacts How Americans Consume, Work And Invest. As housing prices climb out of reach, discouraged Americans may be reaching for crypto and other risky investments.Homeownership in the US offers stability and a path to building credit and equity. That’s why it’s still a central part of the American dream. But as US home prices outpace wages, that dream has become increasin...

Experts with 10-plus years of experience outperformed the LLM.A few years ago, humans were clearly superior to machine learning algorithms in tasks such as language translation. But now, those once distinct boundaries between human and machine capability are becoming increasingly blurred. In a recent study, researchers compared the translation performance of several large language models (LLMs)...

Corvus Robotics today announced Corvus One for Cold Chain, an autonomous drone-based inventory management system designed to operate continuously in freezer environments ranging from -20°F (-6.6°C) to ambient temperatures. “Operating autonomous aerial systems continuously in freezer environments is an engineering challenge most robotics platforms were never designed to handle,” said Jackie...

The Google-owned video-sharing service is among the largest entertainment platforms in the world, and a destination for in-depth, long-form content. BoF breaks down how brands can use the site as a world-building tool to attract loyal consumers.In an increasingly saturated digital landscape, brands that prioritise consistent, world-building video content can gain a distinct competitive advantag...

Modular, neuromorphic electronic skin capable of active pain and injury perception in robotic applications. If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it. This happens thanks to sensory nerves in your skin that send a lightning-fast signal to your spinal cord, which immediately activates your muscles. The speed at which...

Meta talks about XR glasses as companions for your social life. Snap a photo, answer a call, ask an AI what you are looking at. The PlayStation XR Glasses concept spins that idea toward a different center of gravity. Here, the glasses are not about broadcasting your world. They are about pulling the PlayStation universe closer, shrinking the distance between you, your console, and the screen th...

1. Harvard Business Review - 에이전트 AI 시대의 4대 디지털 비즈니스 모델4대 신규 비즈니스 모델 정의: AI로 기존 모델을 강화하는 'Existing+', 사전에 정의된 프로세스를 AI가 대행하는 'Customer Proxy', 모듈을 조합해 맞춤형 성과를 내는 'Modular Creator', 생태계 전체를 조율하는 'Orchestrator' 제시에코시스템 중심의 주도권 이동: 전통적인 공급자 및 옴니채널 모델이 쇠퇴하고, 2025년 기준 전체 기업의 58%가...