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1,494 articlesA 270,000-square-foot satellite factory and a $965B AI valuation are competing for engineers who've never been fought over like this
CesiumAstro closed $470 million in growth capital on Feb. 2, 2026, comprising $270 million in Series C equity and a $200 million EXIM Bank debt package. The company is building a 270,000-square-foot headquarters near Austin, Texas, consolidating engineering, electronics manufacturing, and satellite
Anthropic is building the legal case and the enterprise tool at the same time. Both need the same engineers.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag in beta on June 23, 2026, embedding a persistent multiplayer AI instance directly into Slack channels. Unlike its single-user predecessor, Claude Tag accumulates context over time, executes tasks asynchronously, and proactively surfaces information in ambient mode. With
Thales's $2B Garden Island deal creates 800 jobs — and a clearance bottleneck that could starve the entire Pacific fleet.
Thales Australia has been appointed Regional Maintenance Provider for the Regional Maintenance Centre East at Garden Island, Sydney, in a seven-year, $2 billion deal—the largest sustainment commitment the Royal Australian Navy has made to a single east-coast site. Covering Canberra-class LHDs, Hobar
Elizabeth Warren warned about SpaceX's index inclusion. SpaceX's job board tells a different story.
FTSE Russell's confirmation of SpaceX's inclusion in the Russell 1000, 3000, and Top 200 indexes triggered a mechanical buying timeline and accelerated the company's transformation into a publicly traded entity. With only 4.3% of shares in float at IPO, index funds are chasing a tiny slice of a $1.7
A $61B defense-tech startup wants to retrain 2,400 laid-off autoworkers to build military drones
Anduril's $5B Series H round at a $61B valuation, driven by $2.2B revenue, signals defense-tech pricing has shifted from narrative multiples to production-volume metrics. The article also covers Anduril's talks to acquire Nissan's Oppama plant for drone production in Japan, reflecting trans-Pacific
Anthropic's Claude Code roles approach senior researcher pay — and signal what the company is really defending
Anthropic is rapidly hiring Technical Specialists for Claude Code across San Francisco and London, defending against industrial-scale distillation attacks like the Alibaba case, and launching Claude Tag to embed AI into enterprise workflows. This analysis connects the hiring surge, the distillation
Aurora's security team is now larger than its safety team — and the trucks have no drivers
Aurora Innovation launched the first commercial driverless heavy-duty trucking service on U.S. public roads between Dallas and Houston in May 2025. The article explores the company's safety milestones, including 100,000 miles without an Aurora Driver-attributed collision, its expanding freight netwo
United Therapeutics picked a startup over the ISS to reinvent its lung drugs in microgravity
Varda Space Industries raised $187M in Series C funding, bringing total capital to $329M, to scale orbital pharmaceutical manufacturing. With an FAA reentry license, a collaboration with United Therapeutics, and a production hub in El Segundo, Varda is moving from demonstration missions to repeatabl
A $35 billion Lockheed contract and a rocket every 11 days are competing for the exact same 400 engineers
Rocket Lab's Electron production line now produces one rocket every 11 days, driving aggressive hiring at its Wallops Island, Virginia facility. The company added 35 roles globally in the past week alone, including test and launch engineers for both Electron and the upcoming reusable Neutron vehicle
NASA handed Blue Origin lunar missions the same week its pad was still smoldering — now the company needs 141 workers who can do something expendable-launch programs never required.
On May 28, 2026, a New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the vehicle and severely damaging Blue Origin's launch pad. Within weeks, the company launched a massive hiring surge for launch operations technicians focused on rocket refurbishment and pad recover
CesiumAstro raised $470M, bought an AI lab, and is hiring 37 engineers who straddle semiconductor physics and orbital mechanics
CesiumAstro raised $470M in growth capital split between $270M equity led by Trousdale Ventures and $200M in debt from EXIM Bank and J.P. Morgan. The company also acquired AI lab Vidrovr to embed machine learning into its satellites and is moving its headquarters to a 270,000 sq ft facility in Bee C
Northrop Grumman made 13,000 rocket motors last year. By 2029, it plans to make 25,000 a year.
Northrop Grumman delivered roughly 13,000 rocket motors in 2024 and expects to hit 25,000 annually by 2029, signaling a production surge across the solid-rocket motor industry. The company has committed over $1 billion to solid-rocket motor capacity and is hiring across multiple sites. Separately, N
A $500 million startup is hiring robot operators before it ships a single unit
Mind Robotics, founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, closed a $500 million Series A at a $2 billion valuation — one of the largest early-stage robotics investments ever. Unlike humanoid-focused competitors, Mind Robotics is building factory-floor robots for immediate industrial deployment, starting wit
A European satellite giant is hiring 222 workers in Utah — and every role runs on paperwork SpaceX spent years killing
Thales Alenia Space is expanding its Salt Lake City satellite manufacturing facility, backed by Utah tax incentives, to serve NATO demand for hardened geostationary satellites. The move positions the French-Italian joint venture inside US procurement channels while parent companies Airbus, Leonardo,
Voice agents are 5x slower than human conversation. Moss AI thinks it found the fix.
As model costs plummet, the value in AI has shifted from training models to the retrieval, inference, and orchestration layers that make agents feel seamless. This article examines how Y Combinator's F25 batch, Moss AI's sub-10ms semantic search architecture, and changing consumer behavior signal a
NASA picked a rocket that has never flown to launch its next Mars mission.
NASA has selected Relativity Space to build, launch, and operate the Aeolus Mars orbiter targeting a 2028 departure. Under a six-year reimbursable Space Act Agreement, NASA provides the four-instrument payload suite while Relativity owns the spacecraft bus and launches on its still-in-development Te
Thales Alenia Space's 3,300 hires aren't a press release — they're a production floor being staffed for a war Europe hasn't fought yet
Thales Group is recruiting 3,300 people across France in 2025 and 2026, with 150 hires at the La Ferté-Saint-Aubin plant to double production capacity. The hiring surge supports the proposed Airbus-Leonardo-Thales satellite joint venture called Project Bromo, a €6.5 billion consolidation targeting a
Anduril's Costa Mesa campus is on the market for $400M — and the 173 roles posted this week explain why
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.1-million-square-foot campus spanning Long Beach and Lakewood, set to open in mid-2027 with 750,000 square feet of office space and 435,000 square feet of industrial R&D. The facility will support roughly 5,500 direct jobs and anchors a Southern Cali
Blue Origin cut 1,400 workers the same week it posted 140 new jobs — and every open role shares one thing
Blue Origin laid off roughly 10% of its workforce in February 2025, targeting engineering, R&D, and program management roles. CEO Dave Limp framed the cuts as a structural reset, shifting focus from experimentation to execution. The company still holds over $10 billion in contract backlog and is act
Anduril Raised $5B at a $61B Valuation. Its Ohio Megafactory Needs 4,000 Workers by 2035.
Anduril Industries raised $5B in Series H funding, doubling its valuation to $61B. The round prices in physical production at scale, not just software revenue. The company is building Arsenal-1, a massive manufacturing facility in Pickaway County, Ohio, designed to employ 4,000 workers by 2035. Reve
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