Tech

Remember when Y Combinator startups made food delivery and crypto apps? Well, times they have a-changed.  This week, a new startup called Seeing Systems emerged out of the famed accelerator’s 2026 winter cohort, and they’re definitely not making widgets. The UK-based team—founded by two brothers—is building autonomous strike drones, and they’re already seeing early traction […]

Look out, world. The defense tech bros are teaming up across the Atlantic.  Yesterday, Croatian drone wunderkind and California-based drone and additive manufacturing company Firestorm announced that they’re officially teaming up to 3D print Orqa’s teeny-tiny FPVs for frontline operators.  According to Firestorm CEO Dan Magy and Orqa CEO Srdjan Kovacevic, both companies and customers […]

Told you it was a big day for the backend side of defense.  This morning, Nikon SLM Solutions—a unit of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing—announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that shipbuilding giant HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has placed a second order for its NXG 600E metal additive manufacturing system. Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO of […]

HavocAI is putting the collab in collaborative autonomy.  This morning, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Rhode Island-based maritime autonomy startup HavocAI announced a partnership to put its collaborative autonomy software on Tideman Marine’s six-meter Viper unmanned surface vessel (USV).  Boat buddies: In case you’re new around here, HavocAI, which raised $85M in October, has […]

The boys in Bozeman are back with some news. Yesterday, Montana-based mapping and intelligence startup Reveal Technology announced that it’s snapped up Anomaly Six (A6), a “a multi-domain digital intelligence company,” and will integrate “A6’s global location and behavioral-pattern solutions with Reveal’s autonomous tactical ecosystem.” In normal-people speak? Reveal is folding A6’s ability to track […]

In case you missed it, earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memo outlining his plan to make the Pentagon “an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all components, from front to back.”  San Francisco-based military AI startup Legion Intelligence is taking him up on that. Yesterday, the company launched a new tool called […]

Well, it seems the whole “factory of the future” thing is really happening.  This morning, Anduril released a year-one update on its Arsenal-1 production facility in Ohio—the $1B, 5M+ square foot mega factory the company announced it was building last January. According to the release, the walls are up on the first two buildings, the […]