FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Astromechanica founder Ian Brooke raises funding to build supersonic hybrid-electric aircraft starting with unmanned DoD platforms

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Delian Asparouhov on China's lithography bet, lunar strategy, and why space tourism is the emperor's elephant
• Captions founder Gaurav Misra on building Canva for video and why talking-head video is AI's neglected frontier
• Palantir's Shyam Sankar on enterprise AI autonomy, defense reformation, and why the forward deployed engineer can't be cargo-culted
• Starship's Ahti Heinla: 8 million deliveries, zero stolen robots, and why sidewalk bots don't need lidar
• Coco CEO Daniel Singer on beating Starship in complex cities by partnering with Uber, DoorDash, and focusing ruthlessly on cost per mile

NEWS

• OpenAI launches o3 and o4 mini: agentic tool use is the real breakthrough
• OpenAI in talks to acquire Windsurf for $3B