A Tesla engineer quit after 8 years and slammed Elon Musk’s leadership on the way out Summary Giorgio Balestrieri, a Tesla engineer who joined in 2017 and rose to staff algorithms engineer, announced on LinkedIn that he is leaving the company after eight years. He said Elon Musk’s leadership has “dealt huge damage to Tesla’s […]
NATO’s style of destroying Russian drones in Poland was ‘not the way’ to effectively defend its skies, Zelenskyy says By Matthew Loh — 12 Sep 2025 Summary Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised NATO’s response to a wave of Russian drones that entered Polish airspace, saying the alliance relied on expensive missiles and Patriot batteries to […]
Agentic AI startup Altan has raised $2.5 million with this pitch deck Summary Barcelona-based Altan, founded in 2023, has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by VentureFriends and JME Ventures (with participation from 4Founders Ventures and ElevenLabs’ Carles Reina). The startup builds “agentic” AI — teams of specialised AI agents that autonomously create […]
Ukraine’s drone industry to get huge $7 billion boost, Europe says Summary The European Commission has announced it will “frontload 6 billion euros” (about $7 billion) to scale Ukraine’s growing drone industry. The funding is intended to accelerate mass production of low-cost but effective uncrewed systems — from FPV strike drones and interceptors to long-range, […]
DNV: Fleet readiness surges ahead of fuel supply – green transition at a tipping point Summary DNV’s ninth Maritime Forecast to 2050 warns that the shipping sector is at a tipping point: the alternative-fuelled fleet could burn up to 50 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) of low‑GHG fuels annually by 2030 — roughly double […]
A stable cargo marine insurance market but uncertainty looms, warns IUMI Summary At IUMI’s annual conference in Singapore Mike Brews, Chair of the IUMI Cargo Committee, described the global cargo marine insurance market as stable for 2024 but flagged significant uncertainty ahead. Global cargo premiums reached USD 22.64 billion in 2024, up 1.6% year‑on‑year. Loss […]
New report targets trillion-plus finance gap that risks stalling shipping’s energy transition Summary The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub have released a report, Navigating the Net-Zero Transition, identifying a trillion-plus investment shortfall that could derail shipping’s move away from fossil fuels. Based on two years of research and 40+ interviews […]
BrokenBlade says G2 are ready to make their mark at Worlds 2025 after learning lessons from past mistakes Summary G2 Esports endured a rocky 2025, failing to lift a title and suffering an early exit at MSI, but top laner BrokenBlade says the squad have identified and fixed their issues during the Summer Split. He […]
Product tanker newbuilding contracting drops 86% to nine-year low Summary Between January and August 2025 product tanker newbuilding contracting dropped 86% year-on-year to 2.6 million deadweight tonnes (DWT), a nine-year low, according to BIMCO. The order book — which peaked at 42.2 million DWT in November 2024 — has since shrunk by 12% to 37.2 […]
Nvidia and OpenAI to back major UK investment in artificial intelligence Summary The Financial Times reports that Nvidia and OpenAI are set to back a major investment into the UK’s artificial intelligence sector. Full article content is behind the FT paywall, but the key thrust is that two of the biggest names in AI are […]
