Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months In Brief Posted: 10:59 AM PST · March 5, 2026 Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80M Series B extension round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund. This followed the company’s $75M Series B round led by Sequoia in September. Nominal offers...

Nigeria warns against enlisting abroad after reports of deaths in UkraineMakuochi Okafor,BBC Africa, LagosandMansur Abubakar,AbujaReutersNigeria's foreign ministry has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as the increasing illegal recruitment of its citizens to fight in foreign conflicts.It comes after Ukrainian officials said they found the bodies of two Nigerians who they said were...

A rift between Spain and Trump widens over Spanish opposition to the Iran war Demonstrators hold photographs of the killed Iranian supreme leader and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a protest against U.S. and Israeli military attacks in Iran in Barcelona, Spain, on...

OpenAI adds open source tools to help developers build for teen safety OpenAI said Tuesday it is releasing a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens. The AI lab said the set of teen safety policies can be used with its open-weight safety model known as gpt-oss-safeguard. Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer for teens, developers...

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