Heat pump tech is 170 years old — Pascal thinks it’s time for an update
This coverage overlaps with our earlier Pascal solid-state cooling report; the original article is linked as the canonical source.
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AI at Work: Why Managers Struggle to Evaluate AI-Assisted Output
A 2026 survey of senior managers highlights challenges evaluating AI-assisted work, including verification, judgment and oversight.
Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition
Dennis Crowley says Foursquare shareholders received no payout from the Infillion deal. The transaction price was not publicly disclosed.
Pascal’s Solid-State Cooling Technology: Funding, Heat Pumps and What Comes Next
Pascal is developing barocaloric solid-state cooling. Here’s what its reported funding, efficiency ambitions and pilot plans actually mean.
Meta Pauses Muse Chat Sharing After Researchers Find Discoverable Links
Researchers found discoverable Muse conversation share links in public DNS records. Meta paused the sharing feature while reviewing the findings.
OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
OpenAI’s venture capital arm as well as Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund are investing in Coherence Neuro, a startup developing a brain implant to detect and treat cancer. The investments are part of a $45 million seed funding round for Coherence and reflect Big Tech’s burgeoning interest in brain data. Coherence’s CEO and cofounder Ben Woodington…
GM Brownstown Battery Plant to Close as Lease Ends
General Motors says it will close the Brownstown battery assembly facility near Detroit when its lease ends. The company plans to transfer the work to other locations. Brownstown supplied components for the Cadillac Celestiq and Corvette E-Ray. GM says the closure concerns the lease, rather than an end to its electric-vehicle plans.
Google is bringing a more personal version of its Gemini AI assistant to your car
Google is making the Gemini AI assistant that’s already in millions of cars, trucks, and SUVs a lot more personal — a move that could push consumers even deeper into the company’s ecosystem of products. The company said Tuesday it’s upgrading Gemini in vehicles with a personal intelligence feature that can draw on information from…
Can Europe Build Data Centers Without Giving Up Its Climate Goals?
In the last 18 months, multiple data center proposals have fallen through in Germany: Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse, and state-owned Komm.ONE withdrew from a project in Baden-Württemberg. Though precisely what causes a data center development to fold is rarely clear, Komm.ONE pointed directly to the burdens of the Energy Efficiency…
OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business
OpenAI on Tuesday acquired a four-year-old AI biotech software startup called Orchestra Bio, the company announced on its website. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the startup had reportedly raised around $20 million as of 2025 from backers like Andreessen Horowitz, Atria, and 8VC. Orchestra creates AI agents that help biotech companies manage…