Underwater kamikaze drones, AI-managed blackouts, EV batteries for data centers, 3D-printed lung tissue, mixing cement at sea, and more in this week's Deep Tech Newsletter. Congratulations to @XTEND_XR, Auriga Space, @MPMaterials, Bifrost Electronics, @amogyinc, @IonQ_Inc,

Plus: Acoustic wildfire defense, Starship's successful flight, self-driving drone-launching cop cars, ChatGPT erotica, advanced materials for fusion energy, artificial neurons interface with living cells, and more. Congrats to @HavocAi_USV, @Vycarb, @Airbound_Aero,

"Electrification drives superior economics versus fossil fuel alternatives. Electrons are fundamentally easier to store and transport than the oil we've been extracting and burning for the past century." We spoke with @leobanchik of @VoyagerVC about why climate tech is winning

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This isn’t China. This is Long Beach, California. Over 100 transport containers move autonomously between quayside cranes, storage yards, and rail transfer points. The vehicles can achieve a maximum speed of 13 mph, and can transport containers that are up to 70 tonnes.

Heading to Houston next week for the @payloadspace Lunar & Mars Economy Summit. I’ll be there representing @deeptechagency - the agency for deep tech storytelling. Drop me a line if you’d like to meet!

Record-breaking magnetic field, muscle-bound micromirrors, 2025 IG Nobel Prize winners, quantum memories, sperm injecting robots, and more. Congrats to @CerebrasSystems, @AxiomMaths, @periodiclabs, @Leo_Cancer_Care, @FirehawkAero, @AnsaBio, @OchreBio, @DataPolars, @foliahealth,

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Space beer, crackdown on AI companionship, rescuing forgotten satellites, using vapes as web servers, locking nuclear waste in glass logs, and more. Big week for deep tech fundings. Congrats to @DynaRobotics, @nothing, @K2SpaceCo, @ApexSpacecraft, @CAILabs, @GroqInc ,

"The first billion-dollar company in the world, inflation-adjusted, was a deep tech company, Carnegie Steel. The first $10 billion company was deep tech. The first $100 billion company was deep tech. The first trillion-dollar company was deep tech." We spoke with @abemurray of

(1/2) Quantum computing could transform society—but how do we turn promise into practice?🖥️ XPRIZE #QuantumApplications is challenging innovators to develop quantum algorithms for real-world problems. Read more in @kathrin_sp’s @DeepTechAgency interview: https://t.co/MYTNxN1lQF

600'000 radiosondes ($100M) are lost in nature each year after being used for only 2h. The Meteoglider returns to home after each flight to be reused.. it has been tested by national weather services in Switzerland, France, Spain and Denmark. @NOAA it's your turn!

Check out co-founder and CEO Brian Berzin's latest interview with @deeptechagency discussing how Thea Energy is leveraging 70 years of stellarator research and introducing a software layer touching all the magnet hardware. Full story: https://t.co/miTV0MqZSA

If you’re building a hard tech company in 2025, you should prioritize getting a massive diagonal elevator platform installed in your HQ to make it easy to descend into the lower levels and access the underground portion of your facility.

“A lot of the executives on the commercial side of businesses are starting to understand how powerful military leadership training can be for a company. If you can get somebody who has had military training, you are going to get all those leadership capabilities in somebody who's

Hey all - I run Discipulus Ventures, an early stage fund and residency in El Segundo. If you're in the earliest stages of building for the national interest and interested in building in the Gundo come talk to me.

Major news for @Monumental_Labs dropped in Fast Company today. 1/ We raised some money! Over $8m, most recently in a $7m seed round led by @alexisohanian's 776 (details below). 2/ We’ve secured our new HQ! Almost 40k sq ft in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that will become the largest