Hundreds of non-citizens voted in New Jersey due to software error, governor says

Business & economy wrap-up from the day before Cyprus has joined the second phase of the European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI 2.0), a new European investment programme aiming to mobilise €80 billion to support more than 1,500 fast-growing technology companies across Europe. The declaration supporting the initiative has been signed by Cyprus and 20 other…

Man, 60, Sold His Business For $2 Million — His Brother Keeps Pushing Him To Put It Into His Startup Inst  Benzinga

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The old “raise big, hire fast” playbook is dead: non-engineers can now run engineering functions with AI, cutting the need for early outside capital. Hire for EQ and range, build B2B products with high switching costs, and treat profitability — not scale — as the…

Insider Brief Helsing raised $1.8 billion in Series E funding at an $18 billion valuation and announced plans to establish its first U.S. manufacturing base in West Virginia. The West Virginia facility will produce the HX-2, an AI-enabled strike drone that Helsing said has been deployed in Ukraine and tested by allied armed forces, including…

Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab’s first big AI model launch, and comes a little more than a year after the start-up was founded. Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has unveiled the first of its family of multimodal open-source models called Inkling. The model was the first from the start-up to be trained on Nvidia GB300…

New hyperscale data centers can’t set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation’s first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could restrict even more developments still awaits her signature. The order blocks new environmental permits for data…