The dangers of artificial intelligence eclipsed nuclear weapons as the central concern at a strategic stability panel during the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, with senior military officials warning that AI-driven systems are collapsing the time available for human decision-making in conflict. The annual defense summit, held from 29 to 31 May, drew defence ministers and military […]
Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company described it as the first known deployment of humanoid robots in a combat theatre. The tests, backed by the US government and conducted with Ukrainian officials, focused on logistics in […]
The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’s $185 billion Golden Dome missile defence initiative. Two days earlier, the Space Force awarded SpaceX $2.29 […]
Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuation from earlier this year, when it crossed the €1 billion mark. The company is 18 […]
The Pentagon is buying defence hardware faster than it can make any of it talk to each other. Sensors, autonomous platforms, edge compute, electronic-warfare payloads, space and undersea systems, all arriving at once, each speaking its own dialect. Picogrid, a six-year-old company in El Segundo, California, has raised $45 million to translate. The Series A, […]
NATO has signed strategic cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET, formalising what the alliance describes as non-commercial agreements to strengthen collective resilience in cyberspace. The partnerships were announced on 27 May at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn, Estonia, the annual gathering organised by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of […]
The Tel Aviv-founded defence-AI firm has closed a $31M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $60M as it scales US operations from Washington DC. Airis Labs, the defence-AI startup that has spent the past two and a half years operating in stealth, emerged publicly on Tuesday with $60m in total funding, […]
The Space Data Network Backbone, built on Starshield satellites, is designed to link missile-defence sensors and interceptors in near real time. The US Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $2.29bn fixed-price contract to build the Space Data Network Backbone, a secure, high-speed satellite communications layer intended to underpin the Trump administration’s Golden Dome missile-defence initiative. […]
The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission is preparing to reserve two-thirds of the bloc’s future mobile-satellite-services spectrum for European operators, leaving Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other non-EU companies […]
The US government has a problem it cannot publicly resolve. The Pentagon has officially blacklisted Anthropic as a national security supply chain threat. The NSA is using Anthropic’s AI anyway because there is no alternative. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles authorised the National Security Agency to continue using an advanced Anthropic model, the […]
