Deep Tech

A CATL-linked Chinese team wins the EPO's 2026 European Inventor Award for a battery recycling process that recovers 99.6% of critical minerals.

London-based QuantRate enters a crowded AI trading market as algorithmic systems now drive over 60% of US stock activity.

Alibaba's Token Hub restructure and 105-zone cloud expansion signal a shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment.

A $100m Series B backs TwelveLabs' push to make video as machine-readable as text, with Amazon joining as both investor and cloud partner.

A fast-growing RaaS operation is deploying custom backdoor tooling across manufacturing, healthcare and logistics worldwide.

A share-swap giving Greenland Mines a 9.9% stake in AnorTech fuses Greenland's anorthosite reserves with a multi-asset rare-earths platform.

Israeli defence spinout DFSL brings AI-enhanced laser radar to ISC 2026, targeting the fast-growing global counter-UAS market.

Czech industrial group CSG launches a Michigan subsidiary to sell NATO-proven artillery and tactical vehicles to the US Army.

An OTC-listed rebrand into gas-to-liquids and sustainable aviation fuel positions the company at the crossroads of energy security and aviation.

A five-year RDT&E award puts ManTech at the centre of US naval electronic warfare modernisation amid rising drone and hypersonic threats.

FactSet embeds Gemini into its investment workstation, signalling the shift from general-purpose AI to regulated, workflow-native financial agents.

New Colt research across 600 large firms finds fragmented infrastructure blocking AI adoption and locking up nearly €1m in annual value.

The Florida startup replaces assumption-based enterprise security with mathematical proof, targeting autonomous AI and cross-organisational data collaboration.

A pooled 22-year debt structure consolidates Boralex's entire French wind and solar portfolio, signalling how institutional capital is scaling clean-energy platforms.

Firefly's sixth lunar contract signals a commercial cadence shift, compressing mission timelines and raising the stakes for lunar infrastructure investment.

A sixth CLPS award signals a shift from bespoke aerospace to industrial-scale lunar logistics, with civil and defence clients in view.

The US infrastructure services firm raises $279m net to repay debt as digital backbone demand accelerates nationwide.

Precision motion control deliveries to Israeli defence customers signal durable demand for embedded, long-cycle hardware programmes.

Paris, Berlin and Stockholm lead a multi-city European AI funding map where infrastructure and defence tech absorb nearly half of all capital.

Paris, Berlin and Stockholm lead a multi-city European AI funding surge, with infrastructure and defence tech absorbing nearly half of all capital.