IT総合 From recruiting for Palantir to landing a plane on Highway 85: meet defense tech’s wildest power broker
Peter Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Anduril to build its billion-dollar weapons megafactory in Ohio
Today, Anduril announced it is building their massive weapons factory, Arsenal-1, in Columbus, Ohio, confirming TechCrun...
IT総合 Flights delayed by SpaceX’s falling rocket debris
Qantas has been forced to delay several flights to South Africa due to last minute warnings about SpaceX rocket debris f...
IT総合 Powerset gives founders $1 million to invest in other startups
Powerset, founded in late 2022, is an investment program with a simple hypothesis: what if the best investors aren’t ven...
IT総合 Defense startup Epirus in talks to raise over $150M, potentially cutting valuation
The round could give the company a valuation of about $1 billion, a decrease from the company’s previous $1.35 billion v...
IT総合 RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce
“These are the kind of jobs that we shouldn't need people to do anymore," founder Leo Ma said about dangerous factory jo...
IT総合 From forced landings to stuffed animal heads, headhunter Peterson Conway is defense tech’s wildest power broker
Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like P...
IT総合 Investigation exposes pedophilia in the child-influencer industry
A New York Times investigation found that dozens of potential pedophiles have prolifically exploited the child influence...
IT総合 Lyft says San Francisco overcharged it $100M in taxes
Lyft is suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the city unfairly charged the rideshare company over $100 million in t...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s jets made 355 trips in 2024, including 31 to or from the Mar-a-Lago area
Elon Musk’s jets took over 355 flights this year, with 31 of those flights heading to or from near Mar-a-Lago.
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IT総合 An investigation finds that Google Maps fails users in the West Bank
A Wired investigation found that Google Maps can be near impossible to use in the West Bank, especially since the start ...
IT総合 ‘Genius Girl’ goes from inspiring a Korean TV show character to raising a $100 million AI fund
Principle Venture Partners will write early-stage checks anywhere from $100,000 to “single digit millions.”
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IT総合 Over 20 venture firms pledge to not take money from China, Russia
Founders now have a way to ensure that their investors haven’t taken money from countries like China, Russia, Iran or Cu...
IT総合 SoftBank CEO announces a $100 billion investment into the US
On Monday, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son announced that his company would invest $100 billion into the US over the next fou...
IT総合 Why Marc Andreessen was ‘very scared’ after meeting with the Biden administration about AI
What scared him most was what some said about the government’s role in AI, and what he described as a young staff who we...
IT総合 Humba Ventures raises $40M fund to invest in deep tech, defense tech
Humba Ventures is a sister-firm to Susa Ventures, the seed-stage firm that has backed companies like Robinhood, Human In...
IT総合 If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars
If you can be the first person to get an AI bot named Freysa to say ‘I love you,’ you’ll win anywhere from $3,000 to ten...
IT総合 Meta’s Nick Clegg says Elon Musk has potential to be a political ‘puppet master’
Meta’s Nick Clegg talked about how Musk is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the n...
IT総合 Brian Singerman to take a step back from Founders Fund
Today longtime Founders Fund partner Brian Singerman announced on X he would be transitioning from partner to partner e...
IT総合 Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot
Yurts has raised a $40 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital to provide the DoD with gen AI.
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IT総合 Investigators think a Chinese ship purposefully cut critical data cables
European investigators believe that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully dragged its anchor in order to slash through ...
IT総合 From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock
Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well.
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IT総合 Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year
Defense tech startups have raised almost $3 billion so far in 2024, surpassing the previous record from 2022 of $2.6 bil...
IT総合 ‘I went to Greenland to try to buy it’: Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth
Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like.
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IT総合 Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $170 million extension round
American drone manufacturer Skydio has raised an extension round of $170 million, adding onto the $230 million Series E ...
IT総合 How two brothers went from growing up on a sailboat to making underwater military vehicles
Vatn Systems founders Nelson and Freddie Mills spent their childhood cruising over turquoise waters, doing their homewor...
IT総合 ‘Whatever you want Ben’: Inside Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department
When Skydio, a young maker of drones in San Mateo, Ca., sent a customer proposal in 2023 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan P...
IT総合 AI-powered parenting is here and a16z is ready to back it
AI wants to help us drive better, write better and diagnose diseases faster. Now imagine AI helping you be a better pare...
IT総合 Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion
Stripe is in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion, according to Forbes. The talks are r...
IT総合 From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup
Abel creates AI that uses body cam footage and other data to fill out consuming police reports. For research, founder Da...