News archive — October 2026
People🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Maryland institutions commit $1.6M to UpSurge Baltimore, name Christopher Brandt CEO
FundingEnergy🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Hanwha Energy USA raises $400M in bond sale backed by Korea Development Bank
Energy🇨🇳Oct 23, 2026
Fusion supplier Hefei Keye raises Series A as capital bets on reactor supply chain
ProductsFintech🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex voice AI trained only on human speech
Products🇨🇳Oct 23, 2026
China's Moonshot deliberately weakens the hacking skills of its new Kimi model before releasing the weights
FundingFintech🇯🇵Oct 23, 2026
Japan's DeltaForesight closes US$2.49M seed, launches yen DeFi protocol on Ethereum
Big techEnergy🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Energea commits $10M credit facility to Tesla Supercharger developer ChargedEV
Big techSecurity🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Andy Jassy: AWS capacity is sold out for 2026, largely sold out for 2027 and 'a good chunk' of 2028
Funding🇮🇳Oct 23, 2026
SP Group raises $125M in debt, part of a $2.25B India private credit refinancing
Fintech🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
SwapGlobal lands funding from Boekhoorn, W Group and Kenzoll to push past crypto
Sports🇪🇸Oct 23, 2026
Lithuania's Confluence Valley buys control of basketball club Joventut Badalona
FundingEnterprise SoftwareOct 23, 2026
Michigan's DataISource raises $2M seed for AI procurement platform
FundingEducation🇨🇳Oct 23, 2026
Leader Education raises $9.94M in second discounted placement this year
PolicyEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Jason Furman: if he ran the White House CEA today, he would 'somewhat regretfully' pick AI over 20 PhD economists
FundingHosting🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
CoreWeave lands $8.5B debt deal, cementing a trillion-dollar AI lending playbook