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BREAKING: America’s first disaster-response prime secures $15M in pre-seed funding led by @EclipseVc, with backing from @8vc.
Prime Minute’s first target market is wildfire detection, coordination, and suppression.
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BREAKING: America’s first disaster-response prime secures $15M in pre-seed funding led by @EclipseVc, with backing from @8vc.
Prime Minute’s first target market is wildfire detection, coordination, and suppression.
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BREAKING: Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) and Lior Susan are building a new prime for global resilience.
Prime Minute, the stealth startup backed by @8vc and @EclipseVentures is building around some of our most critical potential disasters, including wildfires, critical compute infrastructure, mass evacuation, earthquakes, and severe storms.
Wildfire appears to be Prime Minute’s most mature market, centered on an aerial attack solution. Public footage appears to show a helicopter-deployed effector releasing fire-suppression material onto a targeted area. NIFC reported 77,850 wildfires across the U.S. in 2025, with the Palisades and Eaton fires alone causing up to $164 billion in property and capital losses, according to UCLA. CAL FIRE itself has a $5.3B+ budget and is one of the primary agencies managing wildfire response across California.
Other solutions include effectors (hardware), C2 (command and control for missions), mission design, mission planning, mission intel, simulations, and resilience services, which Atoms Not Bits finds to be the most interesting.
Atoms Not Bits sees the larger opportunity as on-demand emergency response, bringing the best hard tech together with elite operators and emergency response crews ready to deploy.
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BREAKING: Autonomous trucking is now running daily between Texas’ largest and third-largest cities.
Kodiak is completing the 219-mile Dallas–Houston freight corridor end-to-end on I-45 without human intervention. A safety observer remains in the cab, but does not touch the wheel.
Houston is also home to the nation’s largest port by waterborne tonnage, making the corridor one of America’s most important freight routes. Kodiak plans to remove the driver entirely and launch unsupervised service by the end of 2026.
ALT Source: Kodiak Robotics - Example Picture not related to the HTX / Dallas announcement.
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BREAKING: The British Army is developing its first Autonomous and Robotics Systems Brigade with ANDURIL, deploying Lattice (C2), Ghost (ISR drone), Bolt (strike drone), and ALTIUS (modular autonomous drone).
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BREAKING: Argentina is aiming to deploy up to $7B into hard tech through a partnership with the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
The financing would support critical industries such as critical minerals mining and processing with U.S. equipment, power grid upgrades, and commercial space through 2027.
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BREAKING: Italy is aiming to spend $5B+ building human habitats on the Moon.
According to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Italy plans to potentially deploy $5B for lunar habitation modules, which are essentially pressurized rooms where astronauts can live and work on the Moon with critical storage for supplies.
ALT Example of Italy’s proposed lunar habitat. Source: Thales Alenia Space
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BREAKING: @SkydioHQ, a leading American drone company, has unveiled its F10 Lightrunner, capable of launching in 20 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 100 mph and covering a 30-mile radius. The drone is designed for autonomous takeoff and landing.
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Robotics Enters Med School
Hard Tech Headlines:
- @RainmakerCorp has secured a $100M Series B. The American weather prime aims to partner with national labs and universities while expanding its in-house research team to build the world’s leading weather modification lab.
- @Mithril_Mining is participating in a U.S. Army-backed project to demonstrate a domestic supply chain for producing refined tungsten from U.S. resources.
- @Meta is now developing the world’s first transoceanic subsea cable with 1 petabit-per-second capacity between the U.S. and France, doubling transatlantic data capacity.
- @Ameresco, the American infrastructure company, has secured a deal with the U.S. Army focused on two potential long-term leases for power plant development at DoW installations.
- TSMC is building a new advanced semiconductor packaging facility in southern Taiwan.
- @BostonDynamics has launched a new humanoid training facility to prepare Atlas for the planned deployment of 25,000 robots across Hyundai and Kia factories globally. The humanoids are initially focused on learning automotive parts sequencing.
- @skyways is now deploying long-range autonomous drones for offshore energy logistics, starting with wind farms in the North Sea.
- The U.S. Coast Guard has established a new program office focused on robotics and autonomous systems.
Swarm Defense has secured a $25M drone order from the U.S. Army to deliver 4,000 one-way attack drones.
- @VardaSpace, the in-space manufacturing startup, has brought on Steve Layne as CRO, who previously led hypersonic strike and missile defense programs at Lockheed Martin, and Aaron Huber as CFO, previously CFO of Commure and VP of Strategic Finance at Ginkgo Bioworks.
- TERASi has secured a $13M seed round. The Swedish firm develops anti-jamming communications technology for defense and critical infrastructure.
- Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine have launched a new program where medical students can earn an MD and a master’s in robotics focused on clinical applications.
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BREAKING: America is making one of the largest government investments in next-generation geothermal energy in U.S. history.
DOE is deploying $99M+ across 21 projects for near-commercial-scale geothermal testing and exploration drilling for new resources, potentially opening far more of the American subsurface to 24/7 geothermal power.
ALT Example geothermal site. Source: Fervo Energy
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BREAKING: @RainmakerCorp, the El Segundo cloud seeding startup, has secured a $100M Series B.
Rainmaker is aiming to build the American weather prime and the world’s leading atmospheric science lab on U.S. soil.
Investors include @noavctech, @upfrontvc, @DCVC
@lowercarbon, and @DreamVenturesVC.
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BREAKING: The @boringcompany is working to link America’s 7th and 12th largest cities with a >200 mph precursor Hyperloop tunnel.
The tunnel would connect Austin and San Antonio in under 30 minutes, compared with a trip that can currently take up to 2.5 hours due to traffic congestion, according to @elonmusk.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Army is enabling commercial energy assets such as nuclear, battery storage and natural gas to be developed on U.S. Army land.
The potential projects would be privately financed and operated, supplying power to the grid while providing resilient on-site energy for Army installations.
ALT Source: U.S. Army Public Affairs
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: America’s most critical West Coast port is becoming a proving ground for floating nuclear power.
Barges already move grain, oil, steel and some of the heaviest equipment in the economy. Now Bluecore Energy, fresh off a $50M seed round, wants to put light water reactors on them, starting at the Port of Long Beach.
Atoms Not Bits went inside @BluecoreCo with founder and CEO Kofi Asante to understand how maritime nuclear could end up delivering everything from clean water to Wi-Fi.
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BREAKING: America wants rural America powered by nuclear.
The USDA has launched a $175M program to help rural electric utilities adopt nuclear power and strengthen transmission infrastructure. Nuclear can provide steady, 24/7 power, helping rural communities maintain a more reliable electricity supply.
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Hard Tech Headlines:
- @mazamaenergy has secured $135M in new capital to commercialize superhot rock geothermal. Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital led the Series B.
- The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has approved more than $8B in new investments, including Ukrainian 5G infrastructure, grid-scale battery storage, a seawater desalination project in Jordan, and African subsea cables, fiber networks, and data centers.
- The DOE is looking for companies to develop the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computers, targeting systems with at least 100 logical qubits and offering up to $215M in funding.
- @laki_power has secured a €6M Series A. The Icelandic startup develops hardware for grid monitoring, including technology that could enable autonomous drone charging along power corridors. The NATO Innovation Fund led the round, marking its first investment in an Icelandic startup.
- General Atomics and Hanwha Aerospace have completed the first simulated battlefield operations with a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone, landing and taking off the Mojave STOL from a rough trail used by tanks and artillery.
- EXA Infrastructure is now developing a 4,000+ mile transatlantic subsea cable connecting New Jersey to the United Kingdom.
- @watneyrobotics has secured an $80M Series A. The startup develops and deploys autonomous robots for data center construction.
- The British Ministry of Defence is investing up to £400M in Tekever’s AR5, alongside £16M for more than 1,000 small drones, including Evolve Dynamics’ FOXE-NATO, @SkydioHQ X10 INTL, and SONORA drones from Brigantes Consulting and Harmattan AI.
- @poseidonaero, the autonomous air cargo startup, has opened a new 110,000-square-foot headquarters at the former Alameda Naval Air Station, where it plans to scale aircraft manufacturing.
ALT Source: Poseidon Aerospace
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Shoutout those moving hard tech forward: @rgannon_, @vateseif, @cupertinohoops, @adampbry, @DavidZagaynov, @rasmusdeymeyer.
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BREAKING: @watneyrobotics is now operating the largest fleet of 24/7 dexterous robots across the United States, according to the company.
Dexterous robots are designed to perform complex physical tasks with high levels of precision.
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British Auto Giant Returns to Military Vehicles After Nearly 30 Years
Hard Tech Headlines:
- @agilityrobotics has launched a new humanoid robot designed for manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, with a 50-pound payload, 90-minute runtime, and a 5'11", 284-pound frame.
- IBM-backed Anderon has secured a $1B CHIPS Act award to scale American quantum wafer manufacturing, a key step toward mass-producing quantum chips.
- @EnduroSat, the Bulgarian satellite manufacturer, has secured a $205M round to scale production of standardized satellites and constellations for government and commercial customers. Riot Ventures and Atreides Management, LP co-led the round. Its model lets customers place their own payloads on EnduroSat spacecraft while the company handles the satellite platform, launch integration, and in-orbit operations.
- Air Products, the American industrial gases company, has secured a long-term deal with a major semiconductor manufacturer to supply high-purity hydrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide for its U.S. expansion. The company will invest roughly $250 million in Arizona to build the gas infrastructure supporting semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging.
- McLaren Automotive Ltd is deploying £500 million to scale up manufacturing in the United Kingdom.
- @BainCapVC has launched a new $1.6B fund focused on the post-AGI world. The firm has invested in hard tech and infrastructure startups including Atoms, Crusoe, and Sunday.
- Defender, the British automotive brand, has launched three new military vehicles for troop transport, off-road mobility, and equipment hauling, marking its first new military vehicle launch since the original Wolf in the 1990s.
- ARX Robotics, the ground autonomy startup, has announced a collaboration with General Dynamics to pair crewed and uncrewed ground vehicles for the British Army, supporting missions including ISR, C-UAS, and logistics.
- Kanin Energy has secured $100M in new financing to develop industrial power assets across North America for oil and gas, cement, and other heavy industrial facilities.
- Sicona Battery Technologies is deploying $10.3M to build out next-generation lithium-ion battery materials manufacturing in New Orleans, marking the Australian company’s entry into the U.S. market.
- Hitachi Energy is deploying $528M, its largest U.S. investment to date, to build out transformer manufacturing in Copiah County, Mississippi.
- FluxWorks, the magnetic gear startup, secured a $3.5M Department of War award to advance drivetrains for tactical and autonomous combat vehicles.
- @isaraerospace, the European rocket startup, has secured a deal with SEOPS for five additional dedicated launches of its Spectrum rocket between 2028 and 2030, with missions planned from either Spaceport Nova Scotia in Canada or Andøya Space in Norway.
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