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Norwegian startup Flocean is set to begin commercial operations at its Mongstad subsea desalination facility in 2026, using natural deep-sea pressure to cut energy consumption by up to 50 percent compared to conventional land-based plants.
Visa has unveiled a suite of six AI-powered services targeting the credit card dispute process, deploying generative AI for automated merchant representment and predictive models for issuer decision support as global dispute volumes reach 106 million annually, up 35 percent since 2019.
Austin-based Aalo Atomics unveiled its completed Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on March 20, built in just 36 days, as the startup races to achieve criticality ahead of the DOE's July 4 deadline.
The FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Nia Therapeutics' 60-channel Smart Neurostimulation System, a closed-loop brain implant that uses machine learning to detect impaired memory encoding and deliver targeted stimulation, marking the first such designation for TBI-related memory loss.
Rocket Pharmaceuticals' Kresladi becomes the first gene therapy approved for LAD-I, an ultra-rare immune disorder that leaves children vulnerable to fatal infections.
The 2026 tech IPO window that bankers predicted would be the busiest since 2021 has opened to near-silence, with Discord, Kraken, and Motive all stalled as a government shutdown hangover clogs the SEC pipeline and investors demand profitability over growth.
OFC 2026 drew 18,000 attendees as ST entered high-volume silicon photonics production, Lumentum showed VCSEL co-packaged optics, Coherent demoed a 6.4T CPO engine, and startups began sampling 3.2T photonic chips.
Carbon Robotics tops $100M in revenue, Solinftec deploys 100-plus autonomous sprayers across U.S. farms, and Ecorobotix sells its 1,000th precision unit as agricultural robots enter commercial scale.
Ecolab's $4.75 billion acquisition of CoolIT, Trane Technologies' purchase of LiquidStack, and NVIDIA's chiller-free Vera Rubin design mark a consolidation wave in data center cooling as AI power densities push the industry beyond the limits of air.
Gene-edited pig kidneys have entered FDA-cleared clinical trials, a $176.8 million federal program is funding five teams to bioprint livers, and new cryopreservation methods could extend organ viability from hours to days.
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have all confirmed high-volume HBM4 production for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform at GTC 2026, with 12-layer stacks delivering 2.8 TB/s bandwidth and 16-layer samples already shipping to customers.
Postman has re-architected its platform with embedded AI, Git-connected workspaces, and a new API Catalog, while restructuring pricing to restrict free-tier collaboration to solo developers.