DTN 171: China's 2.8 trillion parameter open source model

Plus: DeepMind calls for AI regulation, Pacific Fusion prototype hits major milestone, a pancreatic cancer breakthrough, DIU wants power from orbit, Thinking Machines drops its first model, China bids farewell to AI companions, and more.

From Invention to Innovation in Europe with SPRIND's Till Moldenhauer

Till Moldenhauer is chief of staff at SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation. He works at the intersection of strategy and operations and helps develop the agency's funding instruments.

DTN 170: Ag Genomics Begins to Bear Fruit

Plus: First commercial nuclear satellite in orbit, fourth US reactor startup reaches criticality, America's uranium mining boom, the quest for large-scale DNA, China becomes second country to recover an orbital booster, and more.

Bringing RF Field Testing into the Lab with RFix's Daniel Ferber

Daniel Ferber is the co-founder and CEO of RFix, a company that builds end-to-end simulation of radio frequency signals so engineers can test their equipment in the lab before they ever go out into the field.

DTN 169: A cell built from scratch grows and divides

Plus: Supersonic flight returns to the US, Realta Fusion generates electricity, Anthropic to begin developing drugs of its own, the White House goes all in on UAPs, and more.

Backing the Sci-Fi Future with Boost VC's Adam Draper

Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC, a pre-seed venture capital firm that writes first checks for deep tech startups across crypto, space, biotech, robotics, and AI.

DTN 168: Trump Supercharges US Quantum With Two New Executive Orders

Plus: Colossal's endangered species biovault, Chinese supercomputer passes US for fastest in the world, the first nuclear clocks, electronics can now be printed on to living tissue, and more.

Building Europe's First Semiconductor Fund with Cloudberry VC's René Kromhof

René Kromhof is a founding partner at Cloudberry VC, Europe's first venture capital firm dedicated to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials.

DTN 167: Brain-computer interfaces are taking off

Plus: Valar Atomics goes critical, US battery manufacturing breaks records, first therapy to make cells young again given to a human, autonomous labs are running 24/7, missile production's motor bottleneck, quantum hyperdimensional computing, and more.

3D-Printing Rocket Propellant with Firehawk Aerospace's Will Edwards

Will Edwards is the co-founder and CEO of Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology company that uses 3D printing to mass-produce rocket propellant, solid rocket motors, and full rocket systems.

DTN 166: Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

Plus: Avalanche's desktop fusion reactor, NASA's X-59 goes supersonic, NY lawmakers pass first in US data center moratorium, China's big bet on big nuclear reactors, and more.

Reindustrialization, Robotics, and the Lunar Economy with Beyond Earth Ventures' Viktor Shpakovsky

Viktor Shpakovsky is an investment partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund investing in transformative deep tech across space tech, robotics, energy, and compute.