Defense tech could be entering its awkward teenage years. Is the boom a bubble?

VCs are flooding into defense tech, but they could be unprepared for the sector’s brutal economics and lengthy timelines.

11 years, 800 papers, and 18% of surface data: NASA bids farewell to silent MAVEN orbiter

NASA has formally begun decommissioning the MAVEN Mars orbiter after 11 years, ending a mission that transformed Mars atmospheric science.
The New Yorker

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The veteran journalist Katrina Manson, who now covers defense tech for Bloomberg, spent much of the past few years asking precisely that question.
AOL

The Pentagon provided a rare inside look at Palantir's Project Maven and how the AI tool helps the military wage war

A Pentagon official demonstrated live how Palantir's secretive Project Maven can be used to carry out a strike.Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images A top Pentagon official provided a rare look inside how ...