Anduril, the $61 billion defense startup founded by Palmer Luckey, is expanding into Israel, recruiting local talent, signing deals with Israeli defense firms, and eyeing investments and acquisitions within the country's booming military innovation ecosystem.
Cyber warfare startup Twenty reaches a $1 billion valuation after securing $100 million in Series B funding led by Accel, as the U.S. military-contracted company accelerates its mission to 'industrialize cyber warfare' amid escalating threats from China and Russia.
Dell Technologies stock skyrockets 32.76% in its best single-day performance ever after AI server revenue explodes 757% year over year to $16.1 billion, quarterly revenue surges nearly 88%, earnings crush expectations, and a $9.7 billion Pentagon contract — with President Trump publicly urging Americans to buy Dell shares — fuels …
OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, granting select U.S. government agencies, labs, and global partners access to GPT-Rosalind, a frontier AI model designed to bolster pandemic preparedness, outbreak response, and biological threat detection across the full threat lifecycle.
Defense AI video startup Airis Labs emerges from stealth after securing $31 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG Equity, signaling surging investor confidence in AI-driven military and defense technology solutions.
Pope Leo XIV issues a landmark 44,000-word encyclical demanding a ban on lethal AI weapons, limits on Big Tech power, and protections for children online, framing AI development as a defining moral crossroads between profit-driven dominance and human dignity — with even Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah attending the Vatican presentation …
The Pentagon awards Meta-backed Scale AI a massive $500 million contract to power military decision-making with artificial intelligence, a five-fold jump from its previous $100 million deal, as the US military rapidly expands its AI capabilities beyond the limits of its original agreement.
The Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Google, OpenAI, and five other tech giants for classified military networks while keeping Anthropic blacklisted as a supply chain risk, though Anthropic's advanced Mythos AI model raises separate national security concerns that could open the door to a potential future deal.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sign landmark Pentagon deals to embed AI into classified military networks, while Anthropic stands alone, locked in a legal battle with the Trump administration after being flagged as a national security risk by the Defense Department.
The White House is reversing course on Anthropic, developing guidance to allow federal agencies to adopt its powerful AI model Mythos despite a prior security risk designation, even as a core dispute with the Pentagon over military and surveillance use remains unresolved.