David Jeans
@DavidJeans2
Reporter @Reuters covering defense and space. Co-author of WONDER BOY: http://shorturl.at/bjKMS [email protected]
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The WONDER BOY paperback is here! We're excited to share the story of Zappos leader Tony Hsieh, whose rise and fall told the quintessential Silicon Valley tragedy. "Mandatory reading for anyone who is interested in big tech" - New Yorker On sale here: amazon.com/Wonder-Boy-Zap…
A look at Allen Control Systems, maker of AI-powered gun turrets designed to shoot down drones, co-founded by Steven Simoni, who sold Bbot to DoorDash for $125M (@davidjeans2 / Reuters) reuters.com/technology/how… techmeme.com/251002/p12#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
🔊 How a Silicon Valley 'warlord' got the Pentagon's attention. Listen to @DavidJeans2 on the Reuters World News podcast for the story reut.rs/4nUn95d
“I’m a warlord now, bitch!” Steve Simoni was a Silicon Valley success story who sold a company to DoorDash. Now he sells an AI-powered machine gun to shoot drones out of the sky. Cracking story from @DavidJeans2 reuters.com/technology/how…
🔊 ' Silicon Valley believes that it has the answer to help it modernize.' @DavidJeans2 talks about how tech is being welcomed at the Pentagon. Listen on the Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4nsfuv9
New: Steve Simoni sold a company to DoorDash for $125M in 2022. Now he's building Allen Control Systems, which makes an AI-powered autonomous machine gun turret called the "Bullfrog" to shoot drones out of the sky. "The future is Skynet, basically." reuters.com/technology/how…
New: Doug Beck, the director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigned today, according to a memo he sent to staffers. It comes a week after SecDef Hegseth ousted three other military leaders, including the head of Defense Intelligence Agency. reuters.com/world/us/penta…
Exclusive: Military leaders have said they need autonomous swarms of maritime drones to take on China. But the Navy's effort to achieve this is under scrutiny following test failures, the firing of a top admiral and a pause on a contract with L3Harris. reuters.com/business/aeros…
I'm incredibly grateful for the 5+ years I spent at Forbes, a phenomenal newsroom where I first started covering Silicon Valley's shift toward the military. Am going to miss my talented colleagues there, not least my fearless editors @JohnPaczkowski and @SchwabKatharine
Update: Excited to share that I've joined Reuters as a space and defense correspondent. I'll be reporting on weapons, national security and Silicon Valley, focusing on major arms, space companies, and venture-backed startups. Send tips / say hi: [email protected]
Update: Excited to share that I've joined Reuters as a space and defense correspondent. I'll be reporting on weapons, national security and Silicon Valley, focusing on major arms, space companies, and venture-backed startups. Send tips / say hi: [email protected]
New- Will Somerindyke supplied munitions to warzones for years. Now with investor BVVC, he's joined the defense tech boom, and is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" for Union, a startup making artillery shells. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…
SCOOP: ex-OpenAI staffers have raised $20M for a pre-launch startup, Applied Compute. Led by Benchmark, the round values the reinforcement learning startup at $100M. Its 3 founders, all recent Stanford students, have since fielded an offer 5x higher 👀 upstartsmedia.com/p/ex-openai-ap…
New- Last night Meta announced its mega $14B investment in Scale AI. But there's more to the deal: Meta could spend the majority of its annual AI budget on Scale over the next five years — a provision worth hundreds of millions in revenue for Scale. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…
New: Last week, Anduril's mega $30B funding round underscored how hungry investors are for military startups. It also minted a new defense tech billionaire: Trae Stephens. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…
The Midas List returns for a 24th year. With only a handful of IPOs, and acquisitions, the big driver of changes to our ranking of the world's best VCs have been mega raises from startups like OpenAI & SpaceX Check out the full @forbes list for 2025 forbes.com/lists/midas/
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards, Forbes found. Now with sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers. trib.al/D9vroBm
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How A Grisly Injury Threw A $5 Billion Drone Startup Off Course
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards. With sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers.
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards, Forbes found. Now with sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers. trib.al/6ccCct0
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How A Grisly Injury Threw A $5 Billion Drone Startup Off Course
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards. With sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers.
New from me: chatbots for schoolchildren dispensed dangerous information — including instructions for how to synthesize fentanyl and a date rape drug — in tests conducted by @Forbes. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
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These AI Tutors For Kids Gave Fentanyl Recipes And Dangerous Diet Advice
AI study aid chatbots for teen users provided detailed recipes for drugs, dangerous dieting advice, and tips on “pickup artistry” in tests conducted by Forbes.
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