Fusion power seeks to use the energy released from the fusing of atoms to generate electricity. Humans have known how to fuse atoms for decades, from the hydrogen bomb to various fusion devices built in labs.
SolarEdge stock is up 80% year-to-date and has tripled over the past year. Revenue came in at $335.36 million, up 96.4% year-over-year, reflecting recovering demand in its core inverter business.
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk. The partnership will see the two companies collaborating to explore how World Labs' models - AI systems that can generate and reason about immersive 3D environments - can work alongside Autodesk's tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.
It will look to assess the impact of factors affecting investment in high-quality connectivity by 2030, identify actions to support the sector to achieve government objectives over the next decade, and assess how the regulatory framework can be improved to support investment, innovation and competition. As part of this, the government is announcing an action plan based on four key principles: drive investment in comprehensive, high-quality connectivity by 2030; deliver for consumers; support innovation and growth across the economy; and provide secure and resilient connectivity.
The Everett, Washington-based fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has hit a key milestone in its quest for fusion power. Plasmas inside the company's Polaris prototype reactor have reached 150 million degrees Celsius, three-quarters of the way toward what the company thinks it will need to operate a commercial fusion power plant. "We're obviously really excited to be able to get to this place," David Kirtley, Helion's co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.
I want to be real hands on, I want to take the club in a direction maybe it hasn't been before. We want to take Swansea to the Premier League, and to do that we are going to need money -- that's the reality of the game these days. I want to introduce sponsorship deals and publicity that will make them a global name.
The US and Taiwan have signed an agreement that will see a multi-billion dollar investment into domestic development of semiconductors and related infrastructure. The US Department of Commerce announced that Taiwanese businesses will make an upfront investment of at least $250 billion into their US production capacity, while Taiwan's government will provide credit guarantees of at least another $250 billion in support of the semiconductor industry and supply chain in the US.
Europe's largest economy reversed its downward trajectory last year after two years of recession, with growth driven by household and government spending. Germany's economy expanded by 0.2 percent in 2025, returning to growth after two years of recession, official data showed Thursday, despite challenges ranging from the US tariff blitz to weak demand in China. The growth was mainly due to increased spending by private households and by the government, Ruth Brand, head of Germany's statistics agency Destatis, said in a statement.
The AI-driven datacenter construction frenzy shows no signs of slowing, but neither do concerns that the whole edifice could collapse under the weight of its own hype and mounting investment demands. Moody's 2026 Outlook report on the global datacenter market, seen by The Register, forecasts business as usual, with demand for server farm capacity continuing to rise in support of AI, cloud computing, and internet services.
In the last several weeks of 2025 alone, nuclear startups raised $1.1 billion, largely on investor optimism that smaller nuclear reactors will succeed where the broader industry has recently stumbled. Traditional nuclear reactors are massive pieces of infrastructure. The newest reactors built in the U.S. - Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia - contain tens of thousands of tons of concrete, are powered by fuel assemblies 14 feet tall, and generate over 1 gigawatt of electricity each.
It wasn't that long ago that the whole narrative around a so-called "crypto winter" forming was on most investors' minds. Indeed, the decline we saw in 2022 was significant, and certainly scared plenty of investors away from this asset class altogether. Of course, the reality is that investors who stuck with the game plan and continued to hold through the volatility are most likely ahead of the game.
We are now at a level where we can't tax anybody any more, but we can't borrow any more, so we are really at the mercy of those people we've borrowed from, so if they lose confidence in us, we have serious issues.
SoftBank Group will acquire digital infrastructure investor DigitalBridge Group in a deal valued at $4bn, the companies said on Monday, as the Japanese investment firm looks to deepen its AI-related portfolio. The acquisition would expand SoftBank's exposure to digital infrastructure as the Japanese conglomerate is positioning its portfolio to focus on artificial intelligence. SoftBank's billionaire founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to capitalize on surging demand for the computing capacity that underpins artificial intelligence applications.
Austria's economy is set to grow again in 2026, but new forecasts suggest many households will see their incomes fall despite the recovery. After months of recession warnings and gloomy outlooks, Austria's economy is finally showing signs of recovery. New forecasts from the country's leading economic institutes, the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), suggest growth is picking up again in 2026.
For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists, and above all foreign nations, which took advantage of us at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard earned savings. They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Really, I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen, to prey on the innocent.
UK GDP declined marginally by 0.1% in October, reflecting an economy that is stable but still unable to build meaningful forwards momentum. The UK is neither sliding into a clear downturn nor generating the lift needed to move into a firmer, sustainable expansion phase. Across the main sectors, October's picture is uneven. Manufacturing and construction continue to feel the weight of higher borrowing costs and muted global demand, while improvements in consumer-facing services remain hesitant despite easing inflation.
McKinlay stressed there are "no guarantees" about future donations from benefactors or fans but told BBC Scotland: "We knew the money was coming from Tony. "It's very important for us to have it this year because we don't have European football. If we didn't have that money and we didn't have European football then we would cut our cloth accordingly."
If you want to know where an automaker's priorities lie, sometimes it's better to look not at their latest cars for sale, but at where they're investing money for the future. One recent example: Hyundai expanding its manufacturing presence in the U.S., in part to deepen its customer base here. Another came at the end of November, with General Motors revealing that it will invest $550 million in two plants in Ohio and Michigan where specific components are made.
