Investors: Index Ventures
AI-native infrastructure company automating complex workflows for real estate and infrastructure projects, raised €7.4M seed round.
Canada locks $2.3B into Telesat's Arctic LEO network
Canada's Defence Investment Agency committed $2.3B CAD to Telesat's Lightspeed constellation, expanding it by 69 satellites and remaking Telesat's revenue mix to 46% defence by 2032.
Fedimint ships ARM64 guardian images for off-grid federation nodes
Fedimint v0.12.0-beta.3 now runs natively on ARM64 hardware, enabling Raspberry Pi-class devices to host full federation guardians without emulation.
Google DeepMind ships whole-body robot AI to 100+ partners
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots full-body control for the first time, setting a new capability and safety benchmark that will determine which hardware platforms win commercial deployment.
BC Hydro launches first grid-scale battery for Vancouver Island
BC Hydro issued a formal supplier request today for a 100+ MW battery storage project near Duncan, marking Canada's first major utility-owned grid-scale BESS, targeted for 2030 service.
Army Commits $87.6M to Hardened Mission Command Center
The Army awarded ACC Construction a firm-fixed-price contract to build a mission command center, signaling acceleration of distributed C2 architecture aligned with JADC2 doctrine.
Circular Materials closes €11.8M to mine metals from wastewater
Italian startup Circular Materials raised €11.8 million to scale recovery of critical metals from industrial wastewater, backed by EU policy infrastructure designed to reduce European dependence on foreign supply chains.
Rocket Lab lands $266M Space Force contract for hypersonic test launches
Rocket Lab secured its largest contract ever: $266M from the Space Force for at least 12 suborbital HASTE launches from a new Kodiak, Alaska facility, anchoring Pentagon hypersonic testing.
FCC opens 225 MHz of Wi-Fi spectrum to satellite uplinks
The FCC's draft order would let billions of existing Wi-Fi and IoT devices connect directly to satellites using unlicensed spectrum, bypassing cellular networks entirely, a vote scheduled for August 6.
Infinity raises $15M to crack the CUDA moat with autonomous chip software
Infinity.inc closed a $15M seed round to automate inference software for any AI chip, already generating millions in ARR with d-Matrix and threatening Nvidia's software lock-in.
US-Australia Critical Minerals Pact Deploys $2.2B Against China
US and Australia signed a bilateral critical minerals deal with $2.2B in EXIM financing to seven Australian companies and committed $1B each, establishing a price floor mechanism to counter China's supply dominance.
DIU picks six drone startups to break Pentagon's operator bottleneck
Defense Innovation Unit selected Tesseract Ventures, Quantum Systems, and four others to demonstrate containerized autonomous drone platforms that operate with two people instead of one-per-drone.
Japan's Big Three Robot Makers Pick One Platform
FANUC, Yaskawa, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries join NVIDIA's open Cosmos coalition, unifying industrial robotics software for the first time and shifting competition away from proprietary robot OS layers.
U.S. battery storage capacity to hit 67 GW in 2026, reshaping grid economics
EIA projects U.S. battery storage will reach 67 GW this year, a 56% jump from 2025, upending wholesale pricing and grid dispatch economics across three states controlling 80% of new capacity.
Navy opens autonomous boat competition to bypass traditional procurement
Navy shifts medium unmanned surface vessel acquisition to open marketplace competition with August RFP, breaking single-vendor model and signaling structural shift in autonomous maritime procurement.
Venus Aerospace lands $91M for flight-proven detonation engine
Venus Aerospace closed a $91M Series B for rotating detonation rocket engines, with Lockheed Martin Ventures signaling that defense primes now see detonation-wave propulsion as production-ready.
PJM batteries discharge into near-record demand as storage hits inflection
Virtual battery programs discharged power during early-July heatwave pushing PJM to near-record demand, signaling storage adoption entering real-world grid operations at scale.
Polymarket enables instant Bitcoin deposits over Lightning via Spark
Polymarket integrated Spark's channelless Lightning protocol for sub-second Bitcoin deposits, bypassing node management and extending self-custodial payments to a major non-Bitcoin platform.
DOE awards $75M to turn coal waste into rare earths
The Department of Energy selected five projects to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal and coal byproducts, marking a domestic supply pivot away from Chinese refining.
Overland AI wins first ground autonomy prime contract with Marines
Overland AI becomes the first autonomous ground vehicle company to prime a U.S. military production contract, winning $19.7M from the Marine Corps to deliver AGVs for air defense resupply by late 2027.
Dealer networks form AI coalition as precision ag shifts control
Vi by visorPRO's inaugural ViNE Event brought five major farm dealerships together to coordinate AI adoption, signaling a structural shift in how precision agriculture technology reaches farmers.