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The weekly briefing for builders, designers, and engineers riding the biggest change in how work gets done.
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Recent Articles
Defense
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Dec 1, 2025
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7 min read
State Department Backs Drone Delivery at Scale
U.S. State Department backs drone delivery at scale • Agility's Digit hits 100K totes • Aurora expands driverless routes
Autonomy
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Nov 19, 2025
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7 min read
China Ships Hundreds of Factory Humanoids
UBTECH delivers mass-produced Walker S2 robots to assembly lines. Hyundai bets $3 billion on NVIDIA AI factory. Waymo expands to three new U.S. cities.
Autonomy
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Nov 13, 2025
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8 min read
Abu Dhabi Beats California to Driverless Taxis
Plus: Foxconn's 6-month humanoid bet, Pentagon drone swarms, $51B humanoid forecast
Foxglove
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Nov 12, 2025
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3 min read
Foxglove Raises $40M to Build the Data Stack Behind Every Robot
While humanoid robots grab headlines and autonomous trucks make deliveries, there's a less visible infrastructure battle happening.
Space
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Oct 27, 2025
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6 min read
Pentagon Funds Space Robot Swarms That Work Without Orders
Lunar Outpost's MARS-1 mission tests what happens when robot crews coordinate themselves in orbit. If communication fails, they keep building anyway.
Autonomy
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Oct 21, 2025
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8 min read
The X-BAT: Shield AI's Autonomous VTOL Fighter
Shield AI's autonomous jet takes off vertically, hunts without GPS, lands tail-first. No runway. No pilot. Flying 2028.
What you'll get
The agent releases and model launches that actually change what you can create
The harnesses and tools reshaping how products get built
Infrastructure moves: agent payments, identity, observability, the plumbing under it all
How work is changing: what's getting automated, what humans are doing instead, where the new leverage shows up
A few stories from the broader autonomy beat, robots and vehicles, when they intersect with the AI thread
