Published on: 2025-04-24 14:44:20
In an extremely high-profile legal case, Meta is currently trying to fend off antitrust claims so the FTC doesn’t break it up. And today as part of its prepared defense, the company sought to use Apple’s Messages app as evidence that it’s not a monopoly. Update 4/16 9:45 a.m. ET: Removed references to previously redacted info at Meta’s request. Meta compares its various social platforms with Apple’s Messages app Meta’s opening statement slides are available here for viewing in full, per The V
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In an extremely high-profile legal case, Meta is currently trying to fend off antitrust claims so the FTC doesn’t break it up. And today as part of its prepared defense, the company sought to use Apple’s Messages app as evidence that it’s not a monopoly. Meta compares its various social platforms with Apple’s Messages app Meta’s opening statement slides are available here for viewing in full, per The Verge. And as highlighted by Wes Davis, even some of the slides with redacted info are easy t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 02:53:35
In Brief Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum — which is a big step up from its last previous $3.4 billion growth fund closed in early 2022 — there’s a couple of other interesting things to note about this raise. For one, it’s more than the $3 billion growth fund the firm was said to be raising, according to reports in February. Founders Fund is so big and successful that it can always raise an oversubscribed f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 07:53:35
In Brief Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum — which is a big step up from its last previous $3.4 billion growth fund closed in early 2022 — there’s a couple of other interesting things to note about this raise. For one, it’s more than the $3 billion growth fund the firm was said to be raising, according to reports in February. Founder’s Fund is so big and successful that it can always raise an oversubscribed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 19:30:39
Workers transporting soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, Oct. 31, 2010. Stringer | Reuters As China imposes export controls on rare earth elements, the U.S. would be unable to fill a potential shortfall, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies — and this could threaten Washington's military capabilities. Amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating tariffs on China, Beijing earlier this month imposed export r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 04:08:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: The Defense Department, which manages an $850 billion annual budget and employs two million people, is the largest federal agency – and it has long faced scrutiny over wasteful spending and dark budgets. A new reallocation plan seeks to reduce dependence on outside contractors and shift resources toward in-house operations. United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has cut $5.1 billion
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 12:00:10
The Pentagon is expected to deliver plans for a “Golden Dome” to Trump this week. In the crudest sense, the Golden Dome is a missile defense system that would shoot nukes, missiles, and drones that threaten the U.S. out of the sky. A scientific study published earlier this month detailed the scientific impossibility of the scheme. America has tried to build a missile defense system since before Ronald Reagan was president. Reagan wanted to put satellites into space that would use lasers to blas
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To defend against Russian aggression Eastern Europe is considering a “drone wall.” The idea is to use sensors, drones, and counter-drone systems arranged along Russia’s border to deter and destroy drones. The project is ambitious and would require unprecedented cooperation from multiple countries to pull off. Rene Ehasalu, the Cluster Manager for the Estonian Defense Industry Association, told Gizmodo that cooperation is key. “We want this to be an international project. The situation in Europe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 07:00:34
The noise from SignalGate has apparently become too much to ignore. On Thursday, the Defense Department inspector general’s office announced that it will take a look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to organize, with other members of the Trump administration, a military operation in Yemen that reportedly killed at least 53 people. In a memo addressed to Hegesth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, Pentagon IG Steven Stebbins said that his office was initiating a “subjec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 20:56:57
This phase began with testing a quarter-scale prototype and culminated in the recently successful sea trials of the full-scale Viceroy prototype. High-speed, radar-proof electric seagliders The second phase of the agreement aims to deepen the evaluation of the Viceroy’s technical capabilities. This will involve demonstrations relevant to specific defense operations, a crucial aspect as military needs evolve. Tom Huntley, Vice President of Government Relations and Defense at Regent, expressed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 19:26:05
In Brief Construct Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups applying technology to sectors like manufacturing, transportation, and defense, has closed its third fund with $300 million in capital commitments. The Washington, D.C.-based firm previously raised a $225 million second fund and a $75 million capital pool for later-stage companies in 2022. While many emerging managers are struggling to raise fresh funds, Construct’s capital haul underscores institutional
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 05:51:45
In Brief Factories are all the rage in defense tech: Anduril announced a billion-dollar “megafactory” in Ohio earlier this year, while Saronic said last month it’s planning its own factory to mass-produce autonomous warships. Now, Anduril is considering building a factory in the U.K. as it expands beyond U.S. defense contracts. “If we get enough orders, absolutely we are planning to open a facility in the UK,” Rich Drake, Anduril’s general manager for U.K. and Europe, told Bloomberg. Anduril
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 06:43:56
After taking the popular class “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms” in 2022, Ganesan became hooked on defense tech. She cofounded the student group Stanford Women in National Security , or WINS, which now has more than 150 members, and completed summer internships at the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. When Divya Ganesan, a senior studying political science, started at Stanford in 2021, she didn’t dream of one day working in national security. Back th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 21:00:20
Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images It's an age-old adage of cyber defense that an attacker has to find just one weakness or exploit, but the defender has to defend against everything. The challenge of AI, when it comes to cybersecurity, is that it is an arms race in which weapons-grade AI capabilities are available to both attackers and defenders. Cisco is one of the world's largest networking companies. As such, it is on the front lines of defending against AI-powered cyberattacks. Also: 4 expert
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 00:28:12
A Palantir Technologies TITAN, Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, for military defense field intelligence deployment, is displayed at the companys booth during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on Jan. 5, 2023. Palantir is rolling out its first two artificial intelligence-enabled systems to the U.S. Army, the company said Friday. The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node systems, or TITAN, act as a mobile ground station that harness AI to collect data fro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 09:44:17
The Pentagon has signed a deal with AI company Scale AI, in an initiative it's calling "Thunderforge," to use AI agents for military planning and operations. The team-up, described as a "flagship program," is a notable development given how divisive the topic of the use of AI in warfare has proven — and how many of the tech's nagging shortcomings have yet to be meaningfully addressed. Yet the encroachment of AI tech within the military has been unmistakable. Both Google and OpenAI have walked
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 00:36:12
In Brief Shield AI, the San Diego defense tech startup that builds drones and other AI-powered military systems, has raised a $240 million round at a $5.3 billion valuation, it announced today. Shield AI says its Hivemind software already enables fighter jets and drones to fly autonomously. Now, Shield AI wants to sell Hivemind to a broader range of customers like robotics companies. The round’s investors include L3Harris, one of the U.S.’s biggest defense contractors, and Hanwha Aerospace. E
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 01:10:42
President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists new tech can finally make it happen. Trump gave a rambling speech to Congress Tuesday night that included the kinds of dishonest nonsense the fascist president has long been known for. But as the most powerful person in the country, Trump has the power to make things happen. And he wants to create a missile defense system for the U.S. called the “Golden
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 13:00:00
Sequoia-backed Mach Industries, the defense tech founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, landed a contract with the U.S. Army and has plans for its first factory, Thornton told TechCrunch. The factory will be 115,000 square feet in Huntington Beach, California, where Mach’s headquarters is located, CEO Thorton said. While that sounds like an expensive zip code for a weapons factory, Southern California – in the shadow of SpaceX – has become a hotspot for America’s burgeoning defense tech industr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 02:53:16
TL;DR: Civilian markets are an economic engine to reshape America's defense industrial strategy. Europe's proactive regulations have enabled drone startups like Ireland’s Manna to build robust, scalable commercial industries that inadvertently prepare them for wartime. By contrast, America's FAA has constrained drone innovation through outdated rules designed for traditional aviation. The U.S. risks falling behind in a crucial technology that could economically transform defense capabilities. A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 03:53:16
TL;DR: Civilian markets are an economic engine to reshape America's defense industrial strategy. Europe's proactive regulations have enabled drone startups like Ireland’s Manna to build robust, scalable commercial industries that inadvertently prepare them for wartime. By contrast, America's FAA has constrained drone innovation through outdated rules designed for traditional aviation. The U.S. risks falling behind in a crucial technology that could economically transform defense capabilities. A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 12:07:21
Today marks three years since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have heroically fought the war with grit and determination, but they have also, against the odds, innovated on and off the battlefield. In addition to establishing a defense tech initiative called BRAVE1, the country has also hosted tech conferences like IT Arena, even amidst the problems caused by the war. Ukraine is now the leader in AI-enabled drone technology and become a magnet
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 13:45:54
In a startling admission, a senior defense official is laying bare the Pentagon's accelerating interest in autonomous killer robots. Speaking to Defense One, which didn't print the official's name so that they could speak freely, that official said that the Pentagon is looking to move away from funding research on the topic and investing in actual AI-powered weaponry instead. "We're not going to be investing in 'artificial intelligence' because I don’t know what that means," the official told
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 00:11:17
Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship factory called “Port Alpha,” it announced yesterday, quadrupling its valuation to $4 billion from its last round. Investor Elad Gil led the round, with General Catalyst joining existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Caffeinated Capital, among others. That should make Saronic the second, possibly third, most valuable defense tech startup in the U.S. after Anduril’s last round valued it
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