Ward: Industry

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Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses

The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

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Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

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Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant

Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

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Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget

Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.

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Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI

Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.

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Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

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Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO

The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.

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The groupthink boom: what 3 top VCs really think about the AI frenzy

"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this means you're really good; you might already have a Series A [offer]," said one, half-kiddingly.

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GitHub Copilot users see token-based price hikes

Since its announcement in April this year, the proposed changes to billing methods on GitHub Copilot were a source of much speculation: how much more or less would a pay-a-you-use AI cost an organisation or individual compared to a flat-rate, monthly subscription? Just a day into the changeover to t…

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AI in video game development: How artificial intelligence is reshaping the industry

A Google Cloud survey found that 90% of developers are already integrating AI into their daily work, and on Steam, 7,818 titles disclosed AI use in 2025 alone, a 681% increase over the previous year. AI in video game development is not a side experiment. It is restructuring the pipeline from concept…