People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A t…
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its earlier round just months ago. Atreides Management, Point72, and Snowpoint Ventures also parti…
A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the grid cannot keep up with America’s power demand, and…
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The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1 billion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachuset…