Realta Fusion has spent the last two years looking for a place to build its research and development facility. In the end, the former Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wisconsin was chosen. “From sausages to fusion,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch with a laugh. The new center, called Forge, will
It is a summer of extreme heat in much of the world. I know what it feels like. In Uttar Pradesh, India, where I grew up, temperatures easily exceed 120 degrees in May and June. But few people have access to air conditioning. With a per capita income of around $1,000 a year, many people
Physical credentials used to be all that was needed for identity management in an enterprise. But now that humans work alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate. That’s the gap that Israeli startup Oak is trying to stealthily fill, he says. Co-founded by
When Senra CEO Jordan Black was an engineer at SpaceX, he took on the task of expanding the company’s wiring harnesses to support production of Starship, the company’s next-generation rocket. Wiring harnesses are what they sound like: the internal electrical wiring that runs through a rocket, car, plane or tractor and becomes increasingly important the
Dr. Erica Schwartz faces a Senate confirmation hearing for CDC director. US Department of Health and Human Services hide title toggle title US Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Erica Schwartz, Trump’s latest nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will appear before a Senate committee Wednesday morning to answer questions
For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was obsessed with Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building, and they weren’t waiting for permission from the Anthropics and OpenAIs of the world. Chinese open-weight models accounted for
