Disruptive, a venture capital firm based in Dallas, has raised a $10bn fund to invest in AI, defence and software startups, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The new money roughly doubles the assets the firm manages. Disruptive plans to back about 10 late…
Defence company Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm plan to make laptops in the US, the two companies announced today. The new product line, called BlueChip, is aimed at government, defence, emergency services and other critical users. The first laptop will…
Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield links now work for drones flying faster than 400 km/h, Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Saturday. A speed cap had cut the link for fast-moving drones since 14 October. Khmara told reporters that the defence min…
Leidos has won a $95M, five-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to add AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system that tracks more than 80 million items of government property worth over $140B. Leidos has supported the syste…
Palantir says neither it nor the US government can remotely shut down Maven, its AI-powered battlefield system used by NATO’s top military command. The assurance comes as European countries question how much control they have over US-made defence techn…
Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive carried on with his …
Arda Industries, founded by OpenAI’s former research chief Bob McGrew, has come out of stealth with $232 million in funding, the company announced on Tuesday. Its AI software turns new product designs into working assembly lines. The total includes a $…
ASI has raised $325 million in a Series C round that values it at $3 billion, the Boston AI company announced on Tuesday. Its software models air traffic, power grids and military operations hours, days and weeks ahead. The aim is to let operators act …
Reliable Robotics has raised $115 million, taking its valuation past $1 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View, California, startup builds systems that let existing aircraft taxi, take off, fly and land on their own. The money ext…
Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command’s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, accordin…