Natron’s liquidation shows why the US isn’t ready to make its own batteries and more tech news

AI logistics startup Augment raised massive $85M Series A; plus Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg

Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M; also, Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

Orchard Robotics raises $22M for farm vision AI; also, Mistral on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation

Advanced geothermal startups are getting warmed up and Fizz expands into grocery delivery

Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183 billion valuation, also OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig

Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B, also India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage

Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone

Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora

Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate

No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation, also US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change, also, Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls

Terraton wants to be the McDonald’s of biochar, also Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

Robomart unveils new delivery robot to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats, also

Eyebot gets $20M Series A to boost to expand eye care access and more tech news

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains and Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug

YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’

Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.

Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs, also, SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents