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US drone maker based in California, known for autonomous AI-piloted quadcopters such as the X10D, sold to military, public-safety and enterprise customers.
L3Harris and Skydio have integrated Falcon IV embeddable radios and the Wraith waveform into the X10D drone to protect its command link from jamming. L3Harris says more than 150,000 US and allied tactical radios can host Wraith.
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Two closes three days apart put $2.85bn of fresh commitments behind the AI stack. The question for anyone raising is which of a16z's two vehicles turns up, because their mandates now overlap at the growth stage.
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The Machine Age Fund goes to chips, memory, networking, data centers and robotics rather than models or apps, which is a working judgment that what slows AI products now is rack power and lead times.
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The Machine Age Fund's case is a rack going from 5-10kW to 100-250kW and toward a megawatt within three years. That number is what determines where your inference runs and how fast it can answer.
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The Nigerian defence-tech company added $18M and a London office. The load-bearing number is a 34,000 sq ft Ghana plant due in Q4 2026, promising 50,000 units a year by 2028.
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