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Portugal's Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine | TechCrunch

Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) to develop its product and expand into new markets, specifically the U.S.. The ... (2024)


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Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)


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The global arms bazaar. Meet the world’s new arms dealers 

Geopolitics in the war in Ukraine are changing where the world buys its arms. Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap | International (2023)


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The Iron Man Model: How Startups and the Military Can Work Together | a16z Future

In order to create Iron Man-like innovations, defense tech startups must optimally engage the Pentagon instead of treating it as just another custo... (2022)


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They’re putting guns on robot dogs now - The Verge

It was only a matter of time before they started equipping robot dogs with guns. A quadrupedal machine built by Ghost Robotics has been outfitted w... (2021)


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The Pentagon's probably drooling over the Age of Empires 4 launch

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us. Microsoft, a comp... (2021)


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Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say

A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)


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Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army wi... (2021)


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US drone firm Skydio valued at $1 billion as government freezes out Chinese competition - The Verge

California-based Skydio has become the first US drone maker to be valued at more than $1 billion after a Series D funding round. The news comes as ... (2021)


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ExOne gets $1.6M DoD contract to build a 3D printing ‘factory’ in shipping container – TechCrunch

ExOne this week announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has granted it $1.6 million. It’s one of the Pennsylvania-based metal 3D printing com... (2021)


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Elad Blog: Silicon Valley & Defense Tech

Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven , a defense contract. This has led to claim... (2020)


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The Pentagon’s Plans to Program Soldiers’ Brains - The Atlantic

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts. (2018)


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The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry - The Verge

The Defense Department’s cutting-edge research arm has promised to make the military’s largest investment to date in artificial intelligence system... (2018)


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“Everybody Immediately Knew That It Was for Amazon”: Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump?

The deal for an obscure $10 billion Pentagon contract suggests the extent to which Bezos is gobbling up the Swamp—without the guy in the White Hous... (2018)


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U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement | Article

Uber and U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Army Research Laboratory, announced today a Cooperative Research and Development ... (2018)


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Get Ready for the Silicon Military - Harvard

As the global defense industry embraces digital technology, it is creating a new type of warfare with different winners and losers... (2018)


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Mutually assured detection - Military applications - The Economist

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide "ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic o... (2018)


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Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones | Gizmodo

Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a... (2018)


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Slaughterbots: Military robots are getting smaller and more capable - The Economist

Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)


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Winter Olympics 2018: Inside the Opening Ceremonies Drone Show | WIRED

The Pyeongchang opening ceremonies included a performance by 1,218 drones working in concert—a new world record. (2018)


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America’s Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back—and Hypersonic - Bloomberg

A successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird could cruise at speeds near Mach 6—but is it a real plane or a pipe dream? (2018)


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Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)