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The Strangely Believable Tale of a Mythical Rogue Drone

Will Knight[photo1]Did you hear about the Air Force AI drone that went rogue and attacked its operators inside a simulation? The cautionary tale was told by Colonel Tucker Hamilton, chief of AI test a...

Serious Fed Unafraid Of Legal Jeopardy In Claim Of Recovered Alien Craft, Government UFO Coverup

(Image via Getty)David Charles Grusch, 36, served in combat in Afghanistan, and from 2019 to 2022 worked on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force of the Office of Naval Intelligence, first as a...

Pentagon buying Starlink dishes for Ukraine after funding dispute with SpaceX

The US Defense Department confirmed today that it is buying Starlink satellite broadband service for use in Ukraine."We continue to work with a range of global partners to ensure Ukraine has the satel...

Supremely Important IP Decisions

[photo1]When SCOTUS speaks, the intellectual property world has no choice but to take notice. And while we wait for the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in the Jack Daniel's parody case whose oral ar...

3 Takeaways From A Patent Pretrial Order In Google v. Sonos Case

[photo1]The eyes of the patent world -- and many on Wall Street as well -- are focused on Judge William Alsup's downtown San Francisco courtroom. The reason for all the fuss? The long-awaited patent ...

'You All Live In An Alternate Reality, You Corporate Shills' Among Number Of Statements Earning Lawyer A Tidy Benchslap

[photo1]Biglaw attorneys are, generally speaking, corporate shills. But you don't get to just say that out loud! There's a gentility to this profession that we have to maintain. Philadelphia personal ...

Developers are building out the blockchain ecosystem in Barcelona

Welcome back to Chain Reaction.This week I'm writing the newsletter from the currently sunny and always beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. I'm here for the Avalanche Summit II, which...

When Can You Legally Shoot Someone on Your Property?

I don't know if it's a coincidence or evidence of a disturbing cultural trend, but a lot of people seem to be shooting people for really dumb reasons lately. There's the guy in Kansas City who allegel...

13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023

Robotics is a fascinating topic. It can be frustrating, too. When I started covering the space nearly 15 years ago, there was a sense that something big was looming, just over the horizon. But robotic...

True Anomaly wants to train space warfighters with spy satellites

As tensions between the United States and China continue to escalate, a new startup has emerged from stealth with millions raised and a plan to send intelligence-gathering pursuit satellites to orbit ...

Max Q: Only a matter of time

Hello and welcome back to Max Q!In this issue:Intuitive Machines enters the public marketSilicon Valley goes to warNews from Transcelestial, Umbra and more

Intuitive Machines' public market debut m...

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Feb 2023

Silicon Valley goes to war

At Andreessen Horowitz's recent American Dynamism summit, Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power painted a picture of the country in peril. "I'm here to talk to you about an existential risk to the futur...

Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine

[photo1]Will KnightExpensive military hardware like a new tank undergoes rigorous testing before heading to the battlefield. A startup called Istari, backed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google a...

Reflections Of The Recovering Criminal Defense Attorney

[photo1]Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Sam Sliney back to our pages. Cl...

Donald Trump's Lawyers Argued There Is No Such Thing As 'The Trump Org.' The Court Was Not Amused.

[photo1]BREAKING: The Trump Organization does not exist! Nothing for the New York Attorney General to dissolve, no one to fine. Pack it in kids, we can all go home.
Or perhaps not.
Last week, th...