Bill Gates’s energy venture fund is expanding into climate adaptation and later-stage investments

Bill Gates’s climate-oriented venture capital fund is expanding its mission, adding adaptation to its investment categories and establishing a later-stage fund to help clean-tech startups begin building plants and scaling up their technologies. The announcement came at the end of the firm’s Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle on Wednesday. To […]

Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery by combining quantum physics algorithms and AI, has raised a €30M Series A (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

Patricia Allen / EU-Startups:Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery by combining quantum physics algorithms and AI, has raised a €30M Series A  —  Pharmatech startup Aqemia has just raised €30 million in a new funding round.  The Parisian startup is generating a pioneering drug discovery pipeline …

The dark side of a super app like WeChat

China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about what’s happening in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Welcome back to China Report!  I know this is going to be a long week for all of you China watchers. New stories seem to be coming out every minute […]

Bluesky previews its Authenticated Transport Protocol, formerly ADX, for large distributed social applications and says a Bluesky social app is “coming soon” (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)

Sander Lutz / Decrypt:Bluesky previews its Authenticated Transport Protocol, formerly ADX, for large distributed social applications and says a Bluesky social app is “coming soon”  —  The group, formed within Twitter, is building a decentralized protocol that limits corporate and governmental influence on social media platforms.