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Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

November 14, 2025
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture seemed to want – an AI model to help design better pesticides. By the time they left, they had a new business model, a new company, and eventually, Graham’s backing. Now, that reimagined company – Bindwell – has raised $6 million in a seed round, co-led…
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Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

November 14, 2025
Generative AI has become a key part of coding workflows, but most companies struggle to track its use, let alone its return on investment. Israeli startup Milestone hopes to help with a platform designed to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code…
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Great balls of fire win world's richest photo competition

November 14, 2025
Italian photographer Gianluca Gianferrari has won the grand prize in the world’s richest photography competition – the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA). His photo is titled ‘Etna’s Paroxysm’ and shows glowing volcanic rock being ejected from Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano during an eruption. The prize pot of this…
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Here's why Lucid Group's (LCID) stock is falling today

November 14, 2025
Lucid Group (LCID) announced the pricing of a new $875 million offering of senior notes in a private sale to institutional investors. The funds will help Lucid pay down debt as it prepares for its next growth stage. Lucid Group stock falls after $875 debt offer After delivering just over 4,000 vehicles in Q3, Lucid marked its seventh straight quarter with record deliveries. Through September, the…
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Nordic and Baltic countries team up to fund US arms for Ukraine

November 14, 2025
PARIS — The Nordic and Baltic countries are teaming up to pay for a $500 million United States military support package of weapons and munitions for Ukraine, they said on Thursday. Norway will contribute the lion’s share at 2 billion Norwegian kroner, or about $200 million, while Sweden will provide $60 million and Denmark around 400 million Danish kroner ($53 million) in funding, the…
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