Crucible Accelerator Fall 2026: no-equity defense dual-use program
The Crucible Accelerator (Inland Empire Tech Bridge, powered by FedTech) runs an 8-week virtual Fall 2026 cohort from October to December for 12 defense and dual-use startups, taki…
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Industry Growth Program: federal commercialisation grants $50k-$5M (currently paused)
The Australian Government's Industry Growth Program, run by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, offers matched grants of $50,000 to $250,000 for early-stage commerci…
US industrial vacancy dips to 6.5% in Q2 2026, first drop since 2022
CBRE reports the US industrial and logistics vacancy rate fell 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter to 6.5% in Q2 2026, its first decline since Q2 2022. Net absorption of 85.1 mill…
SBA opens $9M SCALE program: 20 supply-chain accelerator grants up to $500K
On July 23, 2026 the SBA launched the Supply Chain Acceleration and Logistics Enablement (SCALE) program, awarding 20 grants of up to $500,000 each ($9M total) over a two-year peri…
Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation for transformer-only AI inference chips
On July 23, 2026 AI-chip startup Etched — founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022 — closed a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, with a16z, Jane Street and SK Hy…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an Apache-2.0 open model
On July 15, 2026, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first model: a 975-billion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts (about 41B active per query) trained from scratch o…
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