Today: August 26, 2025
Lola Vision Systems, a DMV-based artificial intelligence and semiconductor startup has taken home the $125,000 grand prize at Investfest’s annual startup pitch competition, edging out hundreds of competitors from across the country. What was slated for a $125K investment competition turned into a $250,000…
Advanced-reactor developer X-energy will move its headquarters to Gaithersburg and open a new test-and-training center in Frederick, promising 525 new jobs and cementing Maryland’s bid to lead the next wave of clean-energy manufacturing. However, skepticism around small modular reactor (SMR) economics, waste…
Blackbird Laboratories has secured a $2 million boost from Maryland’s new Build Our Future Grant Pilot Program—capital that will anchor a 35,000‑square‑foot Baltimore BioHub inside the City Garage Science & Technology Center and accelerate the city’s growing life‑sciences corridor. Funding Win Under Moore’s Innovation Push The award is part of…
Maryland has long been known for its forests and research institutions, but a Frederick County startup is turning that legacy into a launchpad for the next wave of sustainable innovation. InventWood, a University of Maryland spinout, is making headlines with its flagship…
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign branding has redefined how New Yorkers engage with politics. On June 25, 2025, New Yorkers woke up to a political earthquake: 33-year-old Queens Assembly member Zohran Kwame Mamdani—long tagged a fringe “DSA kid with Wi-Fi”—defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo…
Twenty-five years after Girlfriends debuted and helped redefine what Black sisterhood looked like on screen, Tracee Ellis Ross has brought the beloved cast back together—not for a reboot, but for a brand commercial. Yes, a commercial. While we can’t ignore the power…
Who knew that achieving greatness starts with simply showing up? Everything else begins to align with that first step. Being in Pharrell’s orbit has sparked an uninterrupted creative flow in me—as a visionary, a founder, and a builder—and his investment in TANTV…
Institute of International Finance, Washington, D.C. — April 23 2025 U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent stormed the International Finance stage on Tuesday and lobbed a volley of accusations that rattled the very foundations of the Bretton Woods twins. Condemning the International Monetary Fund…
As diplomats finalize agendas for November’s COP 30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil—a gathering already overshadowed by 2024’s unprecedented 1.5°C temperature breach—I can’t help but think back to the first time I met Dr. Shirley Mo Ching Yeung. It was 2019 at…
As the Trump administration approaches the end of its first 100 days in office, seven key Republican senators appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News town hall to unveil their plans on Making America Great Again; The Trump 2025 Agenda, a legislative roadmap…
