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Battery demand grew 16 percent in 2026, yet most battery stocks fell. A layer by layer look at cell makers, grid storage, lithium miners and solid state developers, with the numbers behind each.

The Enough Phone targets a 5.3-inch screen, a battery you can swap by hand, and a Kickstarter campaign that needs 20,000 backers. It arrives four months before an EU rule that was supposed to make swappable batteries normal, and that rule has a loophole.

DeepSeek is closing a $7.4 billion round at a $74 billion valuation ahead of a possible 2027 Shanghai IPO, even as it undercuts AI pricing across the industry. Here is who is funding it, and why the math looks contradictory.

Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.

Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.

Stockholm’s Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, double what it was worth in December. The revenue growth behind it is real. The harder question is what happens to everyone selling software when describing an app is enough to build one.

Mate Rimac, the founder of Croatian electric vehicle maker Rimac Group, started working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. Now,…

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility…

Eighteen months after selling his startup to chipmaker AMD for $665 million, Finnish entrepreneur Peter Sarlin has left his role…

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain–computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese…