How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit; Cyber Force?

INNOVATION

Seven Companies Advance to the Navy’s MUSV Prototype Phase

It’s no secret that the Navy wants drone boats, and they want them fast. Well, now we know who’s (probably) going to be building them.

INVESTMENT

Anduril doubles valuation as defense tech funding boom continues

Defense tech startup Anduril on Wednesday said it raised $5 billion, doubling its valuation to $61 billion in a funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

CEO Brian Schimpf said in a release that the company will “aggressively” invest in manufacturing, research and infrastructure to scale defense systems for the U.S. as it faces rising geopolitical risks.

TECHNOLOGY

Deterring Russia Beneath the Waves: Securing NATO’s Critical Undersea Infrastructure

What would happen if you woke up one morning and the internet was gone — not from a software glitch, but because someone had simply cut the wire?

How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit

On April 15, technology podcaster Dwarkesh Patel published a two-hour interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. For roughly forty minutes, Patel asked one question six different ways. The question was this: If American-made compute trains AI models with the serious cyber-offensive capabilities Anthropic’s Mythos Preview demonstrated — and that compute is sold to a strategic adversary — what responsibility does the seller bear?

POLICY

How Unpredictability Is Rewriting the Atlantic Alliance

The United States had expended nearly half its Patriot air defence interceptors and more than half its THAAD inventory, according to analysis of Pentagon procurement data.