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1,493 articlesSK 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
Anduril Posted 234 Jobs in One Week. The Average Clearance Takes 135 Days.
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18-million-square-foot manufacturing and research campus spanning Long Beach and Lakewood, California. The facility is expected to support roughly 5,500 direct jobs at full capacity in autonomous defense systems production. The article examines the h
SpaceX builds 40 satellites a week. Boeing's El Segundo line is targeting 60 a year — for a single customer.
Boeing won a $2.8 billion contract from Space Systems Command to build the first two Evolved Strategic Satellites for the Space Force's Evolved Strategic SATCOM program, with options for two more. The satellites provide jam-resistant, secure connectivity for nuclear command and control from geostati
SpaceX is building 70 satellites a week while its bonds post the worst debut in recent memory.
SpaceX's Redmond facility produces roughly 70 Starlink satellites per week, making it the densest satellite manufacturing operation in the industry. The article covers the factory's rapid expansion, workforce growth across 393 local jobs, bond market turbulence following SpaceX's $20–25 billion debt
Rocket Lab spent $275M on sensors. Then it bought the company that makes the lenses inside them.
Rocket Lab acquired Optical Support, Inc. in February 2026, absorbing 20 team members and 22,000 sq ft of advanced optics manufacturing facilities in Tucson, Arizona. The deal follows Rocket Lab's $275M acquisition of Geost in August 2025, completing a vertically integrated electro-optical payload s
NASA lost 2,000 senior staff in 2025. A company that has never flown is filling the gap.
Relativity Space's NASA contract to operate a Mars orbiter by 2028 is driving a distinct hiring surge in deep-space autonomous operations, planetary science integration, and interplanetary mission planning — skills that diverge sharply from the low-Earth-orbit talent dominating the post-SpaceX comme
Talos surfaced 241 new rare-disease diagnoses from old data — the genomes were sequenced years ago
Talos, an open-source genomic reanalysis pipeline, surfaced 241 new rare-disease diagnoses from 4,735 undiagnosed patients—a 5.1% additional yield from re-interpreting existing data against the latest public evidence. The Nature Medicine paper validates automated iterative reanalysis at near-populat
SpaceX is building a consumer telecom company inside a rocket factory — and recruiting from the carriers it's trying to beat.
SpaceX is preparing to launch a standalone Starlink mobile phone service for US consumers, marking a major shift from its rural broadband roots. The company has acquired nearly $20 billion in wireless spectrum, raised $25 billion in bonds, and gone public — but bond losses are mounting as investors
Anduril's $20B Army contract replaces 120 separate deals — and the first task order is already $87M
On March 13, 2026, the U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year enterprise contract worth up to $20 billion, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single firm-fixed-price vehicle. The deal replaces Northrop Grumman's legacy air defense system and signals a major shift towa
Anduril is assembling a space-radar division in a city better known for surfing than satellites
Zero G Talent's board recorded 222 Anduril roles added in seven days, with a cluster of space-radar and space-sensing positions concentrated in Orange County. The most senior posting is Director of Technical Program Management, Space Radar in Costa Mesa, alongside Senior Radar Engineer and GNC roles
The Puget Sound's Hydroelectric Edge Brought Databricks to Bellevue — Now the Hyperscalers Are Gobbling the Last of It
Databricks signed a 160,000-square-foot lease at Four106 in Bellevue, pushing its Puget Sound footprint past 270,000 square feet. The expansion coincides with Naveen Rao's startup Unconventional AI, which claims to cut AI inference energy use by 1,000x. The Pacific Northwest's cheap hydroelectric po
1,500 people will build landers in a Jeff Bezos factory. Many of them can't cash their own paycheck.
Blue Origin's Lunar Plant 1 in Merritt Island, Florida, is a 200,000-square-foot production facility designed to build the crewed Blue Moon MK2 lander for NASA's Artemis V mission. The factory represents a shift from prototyping to serial production, with 1,500 production workers and a co-location m
Sierra AI raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation and made compliance its own department — that's the whole story
Sierra AI raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation, hitting $150M ARR in just eight quarters — the fastest ramp in enterprise SaaS. This article analyzes what this 105x ARR multiple means for AI talent: rising salary bands for production-grade agent engineers, a new workforce category blending model orche
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