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Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuation from earlier this year, w
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The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’s $185 billion Golden Dome m
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The Pentagon is buying defence hardware faster than it can make any of it talk to each other. Sensors, autonomous platforms, edge compute, electronic-warfare payloads, space and undersea systems, all arriving at once, each speaking its own dialect. Picogrid, a six-year-old compan
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The fight over who makes the world’s chips is increasingly a fight over the parts of a chip nobody photographs. India has just landed one of them. Intel and 3D Glass Solutions have signed an agreement to build a roughly $3.3 billion substrate-manufacturing plant in the eastern st
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The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive. Aizy has spent its first year buying a company older th
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Independent research by DutchBasecamp and Ogni, based on 150+ founder perspectives across Europe, will be revealed at an exclusive Amsterdam event co-hosted with CCIA Europe on June 30. Across Europe, startup and scale-up founders are increasingly warning that fragmented and over
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The way to read the latest Anthropic financing is to notice who is not borrowing the money. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging roughly $36 billion of debt, but the loan does not sit on Anthropic’s balance sheet. It buys chips, and the chips get leased back. The
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Leica makes cameras that cost more than most people’s cars and are bought, in large part, for the red dot on the front. So there is a certain logic to a brand built on scarcity and prestige now being courted by a buyer with a taste for both. HSG, the Asian investment firm formerl
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Dell spent years being valued as a maker of laptops and storage boxes, a solid, unexciting business in a mature market. The AI build-out has rewritten that story in a single quarter. The company’s shares have climbed around 40% across the run into and out of its latest results, a
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