SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.
SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.

The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’…

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.
Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuati…

Ferrari’s CEO says the Luce deserves “respect.” Its former chairman says it deserves a different logo.
Ferrari’s CEO says the Luce deserves “respect.” Its former chairman says it deserves a different logo.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna used a round table in Modena on Thursday to defend the €550,000 ($640,000) price tag for the Luce, the company’s first fully electric vehicle. The car was unveiled on Monday. By Tuesday, Ferrari’s Milan-listed stock had fall…

AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.
AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

Katelyn Watterson owes her career to a summer internship. As a student at American University, she spent a summer working for a high-end beauty brand in New York. Her boss offered her a full-time job over drinks at the Plaza Hotel. Almost two decades l…

Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta
Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta

The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive. Aizy has spent its first ye…

An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name
An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name

The Delhi High Court held that letting competitors bid on the trademark ‘Hindware’ as an ad keyword is infringement, and that Google’s safe-harbour shield does not cover it. The business of search advertising rests on a quiet assumption: that a platfor…

A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance
A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance

Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg. Chief investment …

Norway’s $2.3tn fund backs a human-rights review at Palantir
Norway’s $2.3tn fund backs a human-rights review at Palantir

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund does not often pick a fight with a company it owns. When it does, the size of the holder makes the gesture hard to ignore. Norges Bank Investment Management, which runs Norway’s $2.3 trillion oil fund, will vot…

Apollo and Blackstone shop a $36bn debt deal to buy Anthropic its chips
Apollo and Blackstone shop a $36bn debt deal to buy Anthropic its chips

The way to read the latest Anthropic financing is to notice who is not borrowing the money. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging roughly $36 billion of debt, but the loan does not sit on Anthropic’s balance sheet. It buys chips, and th…

SpaceX has cut its IPO valuation target to $1.8 trillion as marketing begins next week
SpaceX has cut its IPO valuation target to $1.8 trillion as marketing begins next week

SpaceX is targeting a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion in its initial public offering, down from the $2 trillion-plus it was aiming for as recently as April, according to Bloomberg. The target was adjusted after consultations with advisers and inves…