Anduril

2026-10-01

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Time: Musk’s Grok chatbot reportedly told Trump capturing Venezuela’s president would be welcomed

Time reported that in December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invasion that captured Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump met with Elon Musk and spent hours interacting with Musk’s Grok chatbot; a source told Time Grok said Maduro was “deeply unpopular” and many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. The report also notes Pentagon officials have used a version called Gov Grok for targeting in the Iran War, and Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey were tapped to co‑lead a Pentagon study on battlefield tech.

9.0

2026-09-30

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Valar, Atreides, and Sequoia back Flow Engineering with $50M Series B at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, a San Francisco startup that builds AI agents to automate hardware design workflows, raised $50 million in a Series B at a $750 million valuation. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias’s Valar Equity Partners and Gavin Baker’s Atreides Management; Sequoia and former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha also participated and Botha joined Flow’s board. Flow lists customers including Anduril, Rivian, Joby Aviation, GM PPU, RV Tech and Stoke Space.

7.0

2026-09-22

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Andreessen Horowitz to launch Horowitz Andreessen Academy with major tech partners

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a one-year, highly selective program that will not grant degrees but offers short classes from tech leaders (including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman), co-op placements at partner companies, and more than $50,000 in compute credits. The academy launches with $42 million in funding led by a16z, 10 announced partners (Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, Stripe), will admit about 50 students for a free inaugural fall 2027 cohort, and requires participants to relocate to San Francisco.

6.0

2026-09-22

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · MIT Technology Review AI

Investigation finds AI-enabled border surveillance towers missed people who later died and urges CBP audit

MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego report that their year‑long investigation found cases where people passed undetected through AI‑enabled surveillance towers along the US–Mexico border and were later found dead nearby. The story documents broken towers, algorithm detection failures, and missed agent responses, and urges an internal CBP audit as the government and contractors such as Anduril expand the “virtual wall.”

8.0

2026-09-21

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · MIT Technology Review AI

Investigation finds 1,050+ deaths occurred within range of CBP’s AI-enabled Anduril towers

A joint MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego investigation mapped nearly 4,000 locations of human remains against about 600 CBP surveillance towers and found more than 1,050 deaths within the advertised range of those towers between 2015 and early 2026, including over 110 near modern Anduril autonomous towers; many deaths occurred despite towers’ AI detection and were not intercepted. The reporting highlights specific cases—such as José Morales Bernal, who died within feet of three Anduril towers—and a topographical and timing analysis showing failures across roughly two-thirds of towers studied.

8.0