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Waymo Turns Old Robotaxi Batteries Into Solar Energy Storage
Waymo is giving old robotaxi batteries a second life on the electric grid. The self-driving car company is partnering with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose thousands of retired EV batteries into large-scale energy storage systems for solar power. Waymo’s autonomous ride-hail vehicles wear through batteries faster than personal electric vehicles because they spend far more time on the road...
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Forage Tackles Complex SNAP Payments to Unlock $1.5 Trillion US Grocery...
Forage deployed specialized payment infrastructure across 100,000 US stores to eliminate the compliance rules, balance check friction, and disjointed checkout flows that make processing SNAP and WIC benefits complicated for grocers. Traditional retail software was not built to handle Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) data for digital commerce, blocking merchants from smoothly capturing spend from the 40 million Americans relying on nutritional assistance...
Strategy
Mistral Launches Vibe Platform to Pivot From Chatbots to Autonomous Enterprise...
Mistral AI is making a bigger push to become Europe’s full-stack answer to the U.S. AI giants. The three-year-old French startup has launched Vibe, an enterprise agent platform, while also expanding into industrial physics simulation and committing €4 billion to new data center infrastructure across France and Sweden...
Capital & Transactions
Ramp Hits $44 Billion Valuation With $750 Million Primary Financing Round
Corporate spend platform Ramp raised a $750 million Series F primary financing round, driving its valuation to $44 billion. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, alongside new backers including Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. This massive cash injection underlines a critical operational shift for scaling companies navigating the infrastructure costs of the artificial intelligence boom...
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Innovaccer Acquires CaduceusHealth for $66M as It Expands Into Medical Billing
Innovaccer is using its fifth acquisition in two years to move deeper into one of healthcare’s most expensive administrative problems. The healthtech unicorn has acquired medical billing company CaduceusHealth for about $66 million, adding revenue cycle management capabilities to its healthcare data platform. CaduceusHealth works with about 4,000 U.S. healthcare providers and handles nearly $5 billion in annual medical billing, according to The Economic Times...



































