AI & RoboticsNews

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead

NanoCo, the company behind security-focused OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, its founders tell TechCrunch. The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners and saw participation from Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and angels like Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. In a matter of weeks, NanoClaw creator Gavriel…
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NewsPhotography

This photograph isn’t the Moon. It’s Mars. But it’s not the only stunning image coming from Psyche’s Mars flyby

At first glance, one of NASA’s newest images looks like a crescent Moon – but look a little closer, and that crescent takes on a red tint. NASA recently shared a series of stunning images of Mars’ colorful surface, and it looks like space art worthy of a wall hanging. The images come from Psyche, a spacecraft that’s headed towards an asteroid by the same name, as researchers believe that…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Xiaomi's upcoming YU7 GT just beat every SUV ever around Nürburgring

Xiaomi, a company that makes smartphones and other consumer electronics, sent its second EV around the famously difficult Nürburgring racetrack, and once again set a record with it, beating every other SUV, gas or electric. The Xiaomi YU7 GT is an upcoming high-performance version of Xiaomi’s YU7 SUV. The new performance version of the model was revealed in February, and is launching in China…
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DefenseNews

NATO eastern deterrence strategy takes shape around ‘autonomous zone’

RIGA, Latvia — NATO’s plans to strengthen deterrence along its eastern flank envision an “autonomous zone” where only unmanned systems operate, with linked sensors, drones and long-range fires to detect and target invading Russian forces at the start of a conflict, alliance officials said on the sidelines of military exercises in Latvia last week. Latvian troops tried out unmanned ground…
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