Exclusive: The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to change that. | TechCrunch
Xerion says it has a new technique to produce highly refined cobalt in a single step. Source link...
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Founder’s Fund’s new $4.6B fund indicates an era of big VC spending | TechCrunch
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...
Exclusive: Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands U.S. Army contract, builds weapons factory
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,...
Defense and resilience tech reached an all-time high 10% of all VC funding in Europe | TechCrunch
The war in Ukraine served as a wakeup call for Europe, and defense tech went from a sector that most European VCs didn’t touch to...
Anduril takes control of Microsoft’s $22B VR military headset program | TechCrunch
The Army has granted upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, founder...
Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge | TechCrunch
Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons....
Exclusive: Lydian Labs can make aviation fuel wherever there’s CO2 and electricity | TechCrunch
Jet fuel is a modern wonder, allowing commercial airplanes to carry hundreds of passengers halfway around the world and military aircraft to regularly break the...