Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract […]
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Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’
<p>Proposal has been put to cabinet to allow AI companies to mine content, in exchange for investment and $350m fund to compensate artists, sources say </p><p>Creatives are demanding fresh assurances from the Albanese government that it won’t water down copyright laws under a potential deal with tec
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