Palmer Luckey’s eyes light up, and he talks a mile a minute, when discussing his company’s new recruiting event: the AI Grand Prix. This is a drone flying contest with…
Read more Anduril has invented a wild new drone flying contest where jobs are the prize | TechCrunchSkyler Chan launched GRU last year. Courtesy GRU Space Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making plans to host overnight…
Read more A 22-Year-Old Founder Wants to Build the Moon’s First Hotel by 2032President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese inked an agreement on Monday that will pump billions of dollars into critical minerals projects. The U.S. and Australia…
Read more U.S. and Australia sign $3B critical minerals deal | TechCrunchAmazon made same-day delivery the benchmark on Earth. Impulse Space is pitching a similar concept for satellites bound for geostationary orbit about 22,000 miles above Earth, compressing what…
Read more Same-day delivery comes to space, as Impulse promises satellite transport in hours, not months | TechCrunchDespite spending billions of dollars to make it happen, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey were never able to make virtual reality a profitable consumer…
Read more Dynamic Duo Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey Reunite for Army Combat Goggles ContractWhen Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he would sometimes imagine a future in which US soldiers used…
Read more Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military HeadsetWhen Palmer Luckey cofounded the defense startup Anduril in 2017, three years after selling his virtual reality startup Oculus to Facebook, the idea of a twentysomething from the…
Read more Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone SwarmsAnduril Industries has taken another step forward in its quest to become the next great American prime, this time by beating out major defense companies to develop and…
Read more Anduril moves ahead in Pentagon program to develop unmanned fighter jets | TechCrunchLast night, for an evening hosted by StrictlyVC, this editor sat down with Trae Stephens, a former government intelligence analyst turned early Palantir employee turned investor at Founders…
Read more VC Trae Stephens says he has a bunker (and much more) in talk about Founders Fund and Anduril | TechCrunch
