Julia Grew Up at MIT and Now Wants to Build the Plane Too

MIT-born Julia now serves over one million users and powers JuliaHub’s physics-aware Dyad tools, a serious Boston bet on engineering software.

Runway Solaris Turns Apps Into Live Video. The Buttons Now Improvise.

Runway’s Solaris generates interactive apps as live video. It is a dazzling interface breakthrough with a small determinism problem.

Singapore Put S$220 Million Behind Fintech Because Venture Capital Took a Nap

Singapore’s S$220 million FSTI 4.0 plan backs fintech AI, infrastructure, talent, and scale-up grants as private investment becomes more selective.

URBAN Turns Your Wrist Into a Meeting Stenographer With a Pulse Oximeter

URBAN’s ARC NOTE records meetings, builds mind maps, and tracks health for ₹6,999. It may be the first fitness band promoted to middle management.

This Week in Snark: Cows That Clock In, Fish Blood Startups, and a Notary Billing €30,000 to Read Out Loud

Article number 1,000. I hoped to mark it with a grand thesis on machine intelligence. Instead: cows that clock in, salmon plasma, and a €30,000 contract audiobook.

Deep Dive: Germany’s Startup Scene Broke Records. The Notary Is Still Reading Page 47.

Germany’s startup scene is setting records in AI, robotics and defense while founders battle notaries, thin growth capital and procurement fog.

Maine Marine Technology Built Smarter Boats Before Startups Had Pitch Decks

Maine marine technology spans peapods, Hinckley waterjets, UMaine’s 3D-printed boats, acoustic lobster gear and fishing-vessel ocean sensors.

Five Maine Tech Startups You Haven’t Heard Of. Fish Blood Is Involved.

Meet five Maine tech startups building industrial software, smart energy plugs, fish-blood biotech, seaweed plastics and water-monitoring buoys.

Maine’s Robots Print Houses, Pilot Boats and Milk Cows

Maine robotics runs on 3D-printed homes, autonomous boats, defense vehicles, factory cobots and dairy machines—not humanoids doing backflips.

Maine’s AI Scene Has Startups, Salmon and an Underwater Data Center Fight

Maine’s AI scene runs on practical startups, major employers and research hubs—plus a fierce fight over an underwater data center off Eastport.

Gatik Raised $200 Million to Put Doritos in the Driverless Lane

Gatik raised $200 million to scale driverless box trucks for PepsiCo and other giants. The middle mile is suddenly very real—and very expensive.

Tim Cook’s Final Mac mini Is a Five-Inch Love Letter to Apple

Tim Cook’s likely final product announcement as Apple CEO is an M6 Mac mini: a five-inch monument to 15 years of quiet, relentless execution at scale.