Autonomous ships and hypersonic missiles drew nearly $3 billion in fresh capital this week, underscoring investors' rush into defense technology startups.
Nscale's massive Series C caps a week of mega-rounds in AI infrastructure, defense tech, and world models, as investors chase compute scarcity and physical AI.
Qualcomm's $4 billion acquisition of an AI startup built by the engineer behind Swift and LLVM anchors a blockbuster week of venture funding topping $10 billion.