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3,245 articlesIonQ just turned a radar-satellite factory into a quantum-key production line — and the job postings are already live.
IonQ's acquisition of Capella Space marks the first time a publicly traded quantum company has acquired a satellite manufacturer. The deal pairs IonQ's trapped-ion quantum systems and quantum key distribution hardware with Capella's synthetic-aperture-radar satellite constellation and ground operati
Meta started it. OpenAI escalated it. Your AI salary may never be the same.
OpenAI grew from 4,467 employees at the end of 2024 to roughly 7,850 by December 2025, a 54.9% year-over-year jump that makes it the largest independent AI lab by headcount. The article examines the company's rapid hiring trajectory from 770 employees in November 2023, its $1.5 million average equit
Blue Origin is paying SpaceX rates to build satellites that don't need ground stations
On January 21, 2026, Blue Origin announced TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. The company pitched it as a high-capacity backbone for enterprise, data center, and government users, a market segment th
Anduril is building a $1 billion campus and a Nissan drone factory on two continents — and adding 244 jobs a week
Anduril Industries is building a 1.1-million-square-foot campus at Douglas Park in Long Beach, California, a six-building complex that will house 750,000 square feet of office space and 435,000 square feet of industrial R&D facilities. The Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce values the project at ov
Blue Origin's Reston hub posted a three-seat navigation cluster that didn't exist a week ago — the mandate is satellites that know where they are without calling home.
Blue Origin's job posting for a Principal Autonomous Orbit Determination Engineer reveals the company's blueprint for building self-navigating spacecraft. The role fuses optical and radiometric navigation into autonomous onboard systems for Blue Ring, supporting cislunar, heliocentric, and interplan
Thales' Victoria ship-maintenance roles pay up to $125,000. That's not a shipyard wage.
Thales Canada's surge of ship maintenance and naval engineering roles in Victoria-Esquimalt, BC, signals a deeper strategic pivot. The AJISS program is building a workforce skilled in RF systems, thermal management, and platform integration—capabilities that map directly onto Thales Alenia Space's s
Thales plans to recruit 9,000 people in 2026 — and Google just signed on to power the classified workloads
Thales Group plans to recruit more than 9,000 employees worldwide in 2026, growing headcount by over 10% across defense, aerospace, and cyber divisions. Approximately 40% of new hires will fill engineering roles in AI, cybersecurity, and data. The company also announced a sovereign cloud partnership
Anduril raised $1.5B at a $14B valuation — then put its $400M headquarters up for sale
Anduril Industries raised $1.5B in Series F funding at a $14B valuation, a threefold jump from its prior round, co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital with Fidelity and Baillie Gifford joining. The valuation reflects a bet on recruiting scarce engineering talent away from Google, SpaceX, and AI l
SpaceX lost roughly $600B in market value over three days around its bond pricing. The index funds were buying the whole time.
SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 just 15 trading days after its June 2026 IPO, qualifying under a fast-tracked rule change for top-40 market-cap companies. The inclusion triggered an estimated $22 billion in passive fund buying, creating a persistent demand floor that supports the equity value central t
Oneleet raised $33M by breaking into companies that had just passed their SOC 2
Oneleet raised $33M in Series A to replace compliance theater with genuine security. The article also covers Mexico's mandatory biometric digital-ID mandate creating massive compliance demand, and the growing talent war for engineers who understand both security and regulatory frameworks.
The Army paid $2B for headsets soldiers couldn't wear. Anduril says the fix is a software company wearing a defense contractor's skin.
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril a $159 million contract to develop Soldier Borne Mission Command, a helmet-mounted mixed-reality platform replacing the troubled IVAS program. SBMC fuses night vision, augmented reality, and AI-driven tactical command for dismounted troops. Rivet received a parallel $19
Aemon beat Google DeepMind's record on $10 of compute. The next target is an entire job category.
Aemon is an autonomous research engineer that runs the full R&D loop without human intervention, reading literature, generating thousands of solution variants, and evolving the strongest candidates through successive iterations. The company set a new world record on the NP-hard circle packing proble
SK Hynix will ship 900,000 DRAM wafers a month to OpenAI. That more than doubles the entire HBM industry's current capacity.
OpenAI's Seoul office, opened in September 2025, is less a sales outpost than a hardware and infrastructure hub. Binding agreements with Samsung, SK Hynix, SK Telecom, and South Korea's government cover memory fabrication for the Stargate project at unprecedented scale, floating data center developm
A Judge Blocked Thales From Cutting 650 Space Workers — Now It Hires Into a Structure It Can't Reorganize.
On December 16, 2025, the Toulouse judicial court ordered Thales Alenia Space to suspend a restructuring plan that would have eliminated 650 positions at its satellite-manufacturing site. The ruling capped a 21-month sequence that began in March 2024 when TAS announced cuts across its European space
Blue Origin's Washington jobs dropped 57%. The company's next bet is on a 100-meter tower that beams power into lunar craters.
Blue Origin's 2022 acquisition of Honeybee Robotics marked a strategic shift from reusable rockets to permanent infrastructure on other worlds. The 284-person robotics firm brought decades of expertise in planetary surface mechanisms, including hardware for NASA's Mars and lunar missions. Honeybee i
Boeing added 44 roles in one week at the factory where it builds satellites for the Space Force — and the backlog is 80 vehicles deep
Boeing's 2018 acquisition of Millennium Space Systems is finally paying off as the El Segundo-based small-satellite company ramps production from 14 satellites in 2025 to a projected 28 in 2026. With a backlog of 70-80 vehicles, a 30% factory expansion, and the new Resolute mid-class satellite bus f
Physical Intelligence raised $600M at a $5.6B valuation — and it doesn't build a single robot.
Physical Intelligence raised $600M at a $5.6B valuation, making it the most valuable general-purpose robotics software startup. Led by CapitalG with Bezos, Lux, Thrive, Index Ventures, and T. Rowe Price, the round reflects a bet that foundation-model dynamics from digital AI will extend to physical
Anduril's Costa Mesa HQ is worth $400M. Its newest factory is in a Rhode Island zip code that builds submarines.
A 634,000-square-foot Costa Mesa campus occupied by Anduril Industries is on the market, valued near $400M. The sale highlights a shift as defense contractors monetize coastal headquarters while investing in distributed manufacturing, such as Anduril's new $8.3M Quonset Point facility for autonomous
Your next space-surveillance engineer might work at Blue Origin now — the company just posted 144 roles tied to a 2026 AI-payload mission it's staffing alongside New Glenn's recovery.
Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft will launch in 2026 carrying an optical surveillance payload designed to track and characterize objects in geostationary orbit, a mission aimed at space domain awareness for national security customers. The Caracal sensor, built by Optimum Technologies (OpTech), wi
Anduril Just Doubled Its Valuation in a Year. Its Hiring Map Shows Where Defense Tech Is Actually Going.
Anduril Industries posted 450 engineering positions across autonomous systems, software, and manufacturing in July 2025, driven by multi-billion-dollar DoD contracts. The company is hiring in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., recruiting from Google, Meta, and Tesla. Anduril closed a $5B Series H round i
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