Ford gründet Sparte für große Akkus
Ford steigt aus dem Geschäft für große Elektroautos aus. Dafür steigt es in das Geschäft mit großen Akkus ein, für Rechenzentren und Stromnetze. Ganz alleine.
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Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/
Trump defends Tucker Carlson after his podcast interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, saying Carlson has the freedom to choose his interviewees (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/17/trump-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-interview
David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/maga-brian-mast-ai-chips
California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-california-elon-musk-deepfakes-child…
Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2025/12/15/cvent-300m-goldcast-buy
Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-d…
Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/12/16/sequence-20-million-re…
Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and plans a US launch in Q1 2026 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/11/17/voize-50m-ai-n…