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3,243 articlesASML Cut 1,700 Workers in January. It's Still Doubling Its Eindhoven Workforce to 40,000.
ASML's second campus near Eindhoven Airport will add 20,000 employees, doubling its regional workforce to 40,000. Driven by a €36 billion order backlog and surging AI chip demand, the expansion reflects a structural shift in semiconductor equipment needs, even as the company cuts 1,700 jobs to refoc
ArianeGroup Posted 22 Roles at One German Site in a Month — and Every One Maps to a Missile Program France Retired 30 Years Ago
At Eurosatory 2026, ArianeGroup, Thales, and Soframe unveiled B-Strike, a family of conventional ballistic missiles offering Europe sovereign deep-strike capability with ranges up to 2,500 km. The program leverages ArianeGroup's M51 expertise and includes plans for Franco-German production.
OpenAI Has 712 Open Roles. Nearly All the New Ones in London and Delhi Have Nothing to Do With Research.
OpenAI signs a lease for 88,500 sq ft in King's Cross, London, doubling its UK workforce to over 500. The move signals a strategic split: pausing UK infrastructure over high energy costs while doubling down on talent. Meanwhile, OpenAI opens its first permanent office in New Delhi, targeting India's
Europe's Largest Civilian Teleport Is in Rural Italy. It's Now Hiring the Engineers Who Will Run the Moon's Internet.
On December 11, 2025, Leonardo, Telespazio, and Intuitive Machines signed a strategic cooperation agreement to make European and American lunar communications infrastructure interoperable. The deal links Telespazio's LCNS under ESA's Moonlight program with Intuitive Machines' NASA-backed SDN. Europe
Glean Tripled Its ARR to $300M in 15 Months — and Its 162 Open Roles Reveal the Real Enterprise AI Bottleneck
Glean raised $150M in Series F funding at a $7.2B valuation, tripling ARR to $300M in 15 months. The AI enterprise search platform is pivoting to 'AI budget cutting' messaging, hiring heavily in compliance and financial services, and expanding globally with new partnerships and a San Francisco offic
In June 2026, Apex Space Will Fire Two Interceptors From Orbit Using a Satellite Bus It Designed Months Earlier. The Five People It Hired This Week Have to Prove It Works.
Apex Space raised $200M in a Series D round led by Interlagos, pushing its valuation above $1 billion just three years after founding. The funding will accelerate spacecraft production, expand facilities, and support Project Shadow, America's first commercially-led space-based interceptor test sched
Anthropic Pays $850K for AI Researchers. Primitive Is Paying $320K for Engineers Who Build the Nervous System Between Agents.
Primitive is building the communication layer for AI agents, not foundation models. The San Francisco startup focuses on agent-to-agent messaging, coordination, and state sharing, filling a critical gap left by existing agent frameworks. Its hiring strategy targets infrastructure engineers with dist
ASML Denies China Has Its EUV Technology. Its Taiwan Hiring Spree Tells a Different Story.
In June 2026, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick raised alarms that ASML's restricted EUV lithography technology may have reached China. The article examines ASML's response, the tightening export-control landscape, Taiwan's critical role as the hub for the world's most advanced chipmaking machi
Thales Alenia Space's Rydalmere Campus Has More Job Postings Than Airbus's Entire Space Division — and the Roles Reveal Australia Is Done Being a Ground-Station Outpost
Thales Alenia Space is ramping up hiring at its Rydalmere campus in western Sydney, with 212 roles added in the past week. The surge signals a major expansion of space-hardware manufacturing in Australia, driven by European consolidation and growing sovereign space ambitions.
Figure AI Has 740 Robots and 650 Humans — and the Robots Are Winning
Figure AI has expanded into a 98,700-square-foot 'robot campus' in San Jose, signaling a shift from R&D to manufacturing and fleet operations. The move aligns with its post-Series B growth, OpenAI collaboration, and BMW commercial deal. The company is also aggressively hiring security and privacy en
Robots Outnumber Humans at Figure AI — and the Company's Fastest-Growing Job Category Is Data Governance
Figure AI's robot fleet surpassed its human workforce in Q2 2026, with 750+ robots versus ~650 employees. The milestone, driven by rapid production scaling at its BotQ factory and a warehouse deal with Catalyst Brands, marks the first time a major robotics company has more machines than people.
Thales Cut 1,300 Space Jobs. It Redeployed 70% Into Radar. The Remaining 300 Are Now in Court.
Thales plans to hire 8,000 people globally in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles. The surge reflects rising European defense budgets, air-traffic recovery, and geopolitical tensions. France leads recruitment with 3,000 hires, followed by the UK, Netherlands, US, and Australia.
Toulouse Has One Metro Area Where You Can Walk From a Cleanroom to a Military Satellite Review Board — and Every European Space Company Knows It
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge satellite and space operations into a new European entity with 25,000 employees and €6.5 billion revenue, targeting 2027 launch to counter SpaceX and strengthen strategic autonomy.
Teachers Agree With Each Other 60% to 80% of the Time. Edexia's AI Hits 81.2% — and Two Job Postings Show How Hard That Was to Build
Edexia, a Brisbane-based AI startup, raised $500K in seed funding from Y Combinator and others. The company uses machine learning to automate essay grading across major curricula, claiming 81.2% exact match with teacher grades and 80% time savings. Founded by Daniel Gibbon and Nathan Wang, Edexia ta
Thales added 8,800 people last year and still wasn't done. Now it wants 9,000 more — and the roles reveal what Europe is building
Thales plans to hire over 9,000 people globally in 2026, accelerating its annual recruitment amid surging defence demand. The push spans engineering, industrial, and corporate roles across 11 countries, with France absorbing the largest share. A new Renault-Thales drone pact targets 1,000 loitering
France Wants 1,000 Drones a Month Without US or Chinese Parts. The Bottleneck Isn't the Factory — It's 1,900 Engineers.
Renault and Thales have partnered to build a sovereign French drone-manufacturing base, targeting 1,000 TOUTATIS loitering munitions per month by 2027. The collaboration addresses Europe's defense production gap by applying automotive-scale manufacturing to military drones, while also unveiling the
Legion Health hit $5M ARR before most startups finish their seed deck — and it's hiring 9 people this week to prove autonomous psychiatry can scale
Legion Health reached $5M in annual recurring revenue and secured $20M+ in funding within months, scaling both clinical and AI operations simultaneously. The company automates 95% of psychiatric practice admin work, integrating fragmented healthcare systems with NLP and workflow orchestration. With
Oklo's Safety Analysis Engineer Must Run TRACE Simulations and Draft NRC Filings Before Lunch — and the Role Has Been Open for Three Months
Oklo's Aurora Powerhouse clears a key DOE safety milestone at Idaho National Laboratory, advancing the liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor toward operation while the company scales hiring across engineering, fuel recycling, and regulatory roles.
TSMC is spending $165 billion in the U.S. The most important roles aren't for chip designers — they're for the people who move machines into cleanrooms
TSMC, ASML, and imec demonstrated complementary 2D transistors on 300mm wafers using MoS₂ and EUV lithography, achieving 94% yield. This breakthrough signals a major shift in semiconductor hiring, favoring precursor chemistry, atomic-layer deposition, and defect metrology over traditional silicon pr
Radiant's Kaleidos Microreactor Is First in Line at Earth's Only Test Bed — and Six New Roles in Seven Days Show the Clock Is Already Ticking
On July 1, 2025, the Department of Energy conditionally selected Radiant alongside Westinghouse to conduct the first fueled microreactor experiments inside the DOME facility at Idaho National Laboratory. The test could begin as early as spring 2026. Radiant's Kaleidos Development Unit, a transportab
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