German biotech starts Europe’s biggest bacterial cellulose plant
BIOWEG is building a 10,000 tonne-a-year fermentation site in Elsdorf to replace fossil-based polymers and intentionally added microplastics.
Card networks draft an ID system for AI shopping agents
Ant International, Visa and Mastercard are building a Know-Your-Agent framework so payment networks can tell which AI agents are authorized…
Burger deliveries go airborne over Shanghai’s West Bund
Meituan has opened a low-altitude delivery network in Shanghai's West Bund and launched China's first dedicated drone route for a…
Lagos carpool startup bets on shared rides after Uber’s exit
Shuttlers is reviving door-to-door pickups with a four-seat car service launching September 25, days after Uber closed its Nigerian business.
Google Earth’s image generator lasted a day and left doubt
A generative feature that let users blend fake satellite scenes into real maps was pulled within 24 hours, and the…
Frontier labs raid Big Tech’s Asia leadership bench
OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring country and regional chiefs away from Meta, Google, Microsoft and Amazon to turn model capability…
Garry Tan urges a US answer to China’s distillation playbook
The Y Combinator chief executive says regulators should leave model distillation alone and let American open-weight labs train on domestic…
Khosla Ventures crosses the country for a New York office
The Menlo Park firm is opening its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road, pairing a handful of investors with a…
India tokenizes corporate bonds with a $107M first issue
Three Indian issuers raised about $107M on rails that combine distributed ledger bonds, depository records and central bank digital currency…
UAE spreads its 5GW AI campus across many sites
Gulf planners are trading one giant Abu Dhabi campus for a hardened network of smaller AI data centers after Iranian…
