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Future Mobility
Joby Partners With Abu Dhabi To Build Out Air Taxi Network (Aviation Week)
Archer, Abu Dhabi Agree To Air Taxi Partnership (Aviation Week)
Boom Supersonic Gets FAA Permission to Break the Sound Barrier (FlyingMagazine)
Video: Billy Nolen On Customer And Certification Progress For Archer (Aviation Week)
eVertiSKY publishes UAM checklist for cities (Urban Air Mobility)
Defense Tech
New Pacific Arsenal to Counter China (New York Times)
Anduril and General Atomics to Develop New Collaborative Combat Aircraft for Air Force (Air & Space Forces)
Allen Control Systems, a defense technology company focused on counter-drone robotic gun systems, raised a $12M seed round (BusinessWire)
Anduril and HD Hyundai formed a partnership focused on designing and producing autonomous naval systems (Anduril)
(BreakingDefense)5N Plus was awarded a $14m Pentagon contract to boost production of critical solar cell components for satellites
(SpaceNews)Diversified Technologies delivers an undersea power station to the Navy for recharging submarine drones on the sea floor (Cision)
Space
Unprecedented images reveal jaw-dropping features of Jupiterâs âtortured moonâ (CNN)
Dark is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit (TechCrunch)
Satellite imaging company Iceye raises $93 million in latest funding round (SpaceNews)
Space tourism balloon startup unveils âluxuryâ capsule design (TNW)
Advanced Computing
Chip Startup Rivos Raises More Than $250 Million to Tap AI Boom (YahooFinance)
Googleâs new technique gives LLMs infinite context (VentureBeat)
Magnus Metal, a startup building a metal casting technology that is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing, raised a $74M Series B (TechCrunch)
This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant (MIT Tech Review)
Energy
Chevron leads $45M investment in carbon removal company Ion Clean Energy (UtilityDive)
DOE announces $75M to advance desalination and water reuse tech (Department of Energy)
How thermal batteries are heating up energy storage (MIT Tech Review)
CATL unveils Tesla Megapack competitor, claims zero degradation and more capacity (Electrek)