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Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months
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Army Launches Altius-700 Drone From an Apache in Under Six Months

The U.S. Army just demonstrated something that sounds straightforward until you think about what it actually required: launching an autonomous strike drone from a moving Apache attack helicopter in less than six months from the day someone wrote the requirement down. The demonstration took place on February 26 at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, using…

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface
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Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework

The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software platform, as Defence Express reports. It is the largest single contract in Anduril’s history and…

Jetson ONE Flies the California Coast and 115 Million People Watched
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Jetson ONE Flies the California Coast and 115 Million People Watched

The inventor of the Jetson ONE took off from his driveway, flew over Pismo Beach surfers and straight over the pier, and landed in Grover Beach. MrBeast filmed it. The world noticed. From a Residential Driveway to the Pacific Ocean Tomasz Patan, co-founder, inventor, and CTO of Jetson, did not launch from an airport. He…

US Air Force swaps AI midflight on YFQ-44A
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US Air Force swaps AI midflight on YFQ-44A

The United States Air Force just treated combat drone autonomy like an app you can close and reopen, except this app flies at jet speeds. In a recent test, Anduril Industries demonstrated that its YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft can switch between two completely different mission autonomy systems while airborne, no landing, no wrench turning, no…

German Defense Startup Helsing Unveils Autonomous ‘Europa’ Combat Drone
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Helsing and Stark’s German drone deals could reach €4.3 billion, procurement documents reveal

Two weeks ago, we reported that Helsing and Stark Defence had beaten Rheinmetall for €600 million in German loitering munition contracts. That number was based on Bloomberg’s reporting. Now the Financial Times has obtained the actual procurement documents submitted to Germany’s budget committee, and the real numbers tell a very different story. The potential total…

Anduril Launches AI Grand Prix: $500K Autonomous Drone Racing Competition Where Software Engineers Compete For Jobs
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Anduril Launches AI Grand Prix: $500K Autonomous Drone Racing Competition Where Software Engineers Compete For Jobs

Anduril is launching the AI Grand Prix, an autonomous drone racing competition where humans don’t fly the drones—they write the software that does. The $500,000 prize pool comes with something potentially more valuable: a job offer that bypasses Anduril’s standard recruiting process, TechCrunch reports. Palmer Luckey’s Pitch: Autonomy Has Arrived The AI Grand Prix is…

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