Stripe has launched ‘Stripe Startups’ to support early-stage venture-backed startups, offering credits to offset fees, expert insights, and a community of founders also building on Stripe’s financial infrastructure | Meta (Facebook) is building a new data centre, ‘Hyperion’, which will supply five gigawatts of computational power to the company’s AI lab and is planning additional centres; some will be built under temporary tents to meet surging demand | Bedrock Robotics, founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, is developing a self-driving kit that can be retrofit to worksite vehicles and has raised $80m in Series A funding | The first successful mitochondrial donation has taken place, resulting in three fertilised eggs, two of which went on to develop into healthy children, marking the first peer-reviewed evidence that the method can produce live births | GABA Labs is developing a synthetic molecule, Alcarelle, designed to mimic the relaxing effects of alcohol without the associated health risks or hangovers; it won’t be commercially available until 2027, so enjoy the real thing in the meantime.
