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Hermeus Reaches $1 Billion Valuation with $350 Million Raise to Build Today’s Fastest Aircraft for the American Warfighter

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:19:14 +0000

Hermeus, a defense aviation company developing high-Mach unmanned aircraft, today announced it has closed $350 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with continued support from Canaan Partners, Founders Fund, RTX Ventures, Bling Capital, and In-Q-Tel. Joining as new investors are Cox Enterprises and their venture fund Socium Ventures, Destiny […]

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Valar Atomics: $2 Billion Valuation For Nuclear Energy Startup Backed By Defense Tech Leaders

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:15:47 +0000

Valar Atomics, a nuclear energy startup backed by defense tech investors, has raised fresh funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report, signaling growing investor appetite for next-generation nuclear technologies to power energy-intensive industries. The company secured approximately $450 million in new capital, including $340 million in equity and $110 million in […]

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People on both sides of the strait are Chinese, Xi tells Taiwan opposition leader

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:10:28 +0000

People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese and the future of relations lies in the hands of the Chinese people, ‌President Xi Jinping told Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun on Friday. Cheng, chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), is in China on what she has called a peace mission […]

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Myanmar military chief who led 2021 army takeover takes presidency after criticized election

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:07:28 +0000

Min Aung Hlaing, who as Myanmar ’s military commander had led the Southeast Asian nation with an iron fist since seizing power from Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in 2021, was sworn in as an elected president on Friday. His inauguration came after a general election judged by U.N. experts and rights groups to […]

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Drone strike hits wedding in Darfur town, killing at least 30 people

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:05:27 +0000

A drone strike on a town in Sudan’s Darfur region hit a wedding party, killing at least 30 civilians, including women and children, the United Nations said Thursday. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the U.N.’s secretary-general, said during a briefing that the wedding ceremony was in the town of Kutum in North Darfur. The strike is […]

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Djibouti holds presidential election with longtime ruler favored for a sixth term

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:03:57 +0000

Voters in the small Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti cast ballots to elect their president on Friday, with longtime leader Ismaïl Omar Guelleh expected to secure a sixth term in office after lawmakers scrapped presidential age limits last year. Guelleh, 78, has ruled the country of about 1 million for more than two decades. […]

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Over 1 million Sudanese refugees in Chad face drastic aid cuts, UN says

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:02:15 +0000

More than a million Sudanese refugees face drastic cuts in life-saving aid such as food and water ‌unless donors fill a funding shortfall of over $400 million, two U.N. agencies said on Thursday. Over 1.3 million Sudanese refugees are living in neighbouring Chad, with most of them arriving since the start of the conflict in […]

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Meanwhile, Along Another Dire Strait in Asia …

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:59:30 +0000

Beijing’s relative silence over the, albeit fragile, truce in the Gulf was the loudest kind of humblebrag. China’s foreign ministry merely acknowledged that its top diplomat made more than a score of phone calls to involved nations and potential mediators, but even US President Donald Trump gave the country credit. It helped burnish China’s attempts […]

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The Three Layers of an Agentic AI Platform

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:57:28 +0000

In the first post in this series, we made the case that agentic AI demands a fundamentally new architecture built for connected, nondeterministic systems rather than isolated models. Here, we discuss what that architecture looks like. Most enterprise AI platforms were built for simpler systems: single models serving narrow use cases behind static application programming […]

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Understanding tokenization and consumption in LLMs

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:54:54 +0000

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude Cowork and GitHub Copilot have revolutionised the way individuals and organizations interact with artificial intelligence for content generation, coding assistance and collaborative work. At the core of these advancements lies the concept of tokenization — a fundamental process that dictates how user inputs are interpreted, processed and […]

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