IT総合 Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill
Silicon Valley founders like Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale have been grappling with fully autonomous weapons.
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IT総合 IT総合 Shield AI’s founder on death, drones in Ukraine, and the AI weapon ‘no one wants’
Shield AI cofounder Brandon Tseng has raised over $1 billion to create AI pilots. Here's what he's learned in Ukraine an...
IT総合 Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a ‘warrior class’ excited to enact ‘violence on others in pursuit of good aims’
Palmer Luckey raged against America’s adversaries, endorsed completely autonomous weapons, and hinted at an Anduril IPO....
IT総合 Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested.
Anduril sued defense tech startup Salient Motion. It still raised $12 million with participation from Anduril investor a...
IT総合 Former Brex COO who now heads unicorn fintech Figure says GPT is already upending the mortgage industry
Lending startup Figure will be launching an AI tool powered by GPT-4 to help catch errors in lending documents.
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IT総合 How one female VC is teaching kids about startups and women in tech
Lux Capital's Deena Shakir wrote a picture book to explain startups to children.
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IT総合 Synex founder, once detained at the border with a 80-pound magnet, is building portable MRIs to test glucose
Synex Medical just raised $28.1 million to build a portable MRI capable of testing glucose and other important molecules...
IT総合 No, the FAA isn’t fining SpaceX because of Elon Musk’s politics, former FAA head says
Elon Musk is suing the FAA over fines he claims are "politically-motivated." The former head of the FAA disagrees.
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IT総合 Ursa Major nabs $12.5M from U.S. Navy, DoD for 3D printed rocket motors
Ursa Major, a startup that produces rocket motors through 3D printing, received a $12.5 million grant to develop new sol...
IT総合 A16z’s Joshua Lu says AI is already radically changing video games and Discord is the future
After joining the firm as an investor in 2022, Lu has seen how AI and new distribution platforms are changing the indust...
IT総合 Palantir’s CTO, and 13th employee, has become a secret weapon for Valley defense tech startups
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups.
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IT総合 Pryzm is a new kind of defense tech startup: one that helps others win lucrative contracts
Pryzm announced its $2 million pre-seed round, led by XYZ Venture Capital and Amplify.LA.
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IT総合 Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city
Marc Andreessen's family is planning to build a large housing development
near the proposed California Forever city.
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IT総合 Lux Capital made its first investment in Brazil, a $4M seed for AI fintech Magie
Brazil fintech Magie raised $4 million in a seed round led by Lux Capital, marking the firm’s first investment in Brazil...
IT総合 Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity ‘technocapitalist’ school
Former a16z-investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out an island in Singapore to create his own “Network School.”
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IT総合 The defense tech acquisition spree has begun: Autonomous factory startup Hadrian acquires Datum Source
Hadrian announced they bought Datum Source, a software company founded by SpaceX alums that uses AI to help hardware com...
IT総合 Anduril reaches milestone with major defense hardware contract
Anduril and Palantir delivered the first Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) -- the first major mileston...
IT総合 The SEC has charged an a16z and Sequoia-backed crypto startup founder with fraud
The founder of once-hyped crypto startup BitClout is facing trouble. On Tuesday, the SEC charged him with fraud and othe...
IT総合 Lavish parties and moral dilemmas: 4 days with Silicon Valley’s MAGA elite at the RNC
All week at the RNC, I saw an event defined by Silicon Valley. But I also saw the tech elite experience flashes of disco...
IT総合 VC David Sacks delivers a fire-and-brimstone speech at the Republican National Convention
On the first night of the RNC, venture capitalist David Sacks took the stage to warn Republicans of “a world on fire.”
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IT総合 More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as defense tech investment reached $35B
As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: ex-milit...