Artemis Il has officially surpassed the distance record set by Apollo 13, making these astronauts the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth

$MP $UUUU $UAMY $USAR $AREC $CRML | Namibia unveils a new high grade critical mineral discovery at the Uis Project.

Askari Metals confirms a 2.2KM trend of tin, lithium, and tantalum, with peak results solidifying the nation's status as a top tier global mining hub.

$OKLO $SMR $NNE $LEU $UAMY | DOE requests $53.9B for FY27, with $45B earmarked for nuclear energy and defense.

The NNSA receives a 12% boost to $32.8B for warhead modernization, while a new $3.5B Baseload Power fund targets rapid SMR and nuclear deployment.

$ASTS $RKLB $RDW $VOYG $PL | Argotec officially inaugurated its $25M satellite factory in Melbourne, FL, to meet surging U.S. defense and civil demand.

The vertically integrated hub scales Italy’s high volume manufacturing model for high priority American missions.

$MU $WDC $STX $SNDK $AMAT | Tesla and SpaceX officially launch Terafab.

A $25B joint venture with xAI that integrates logic, memory and packaging under one roof to build the chips required for a "galactic civilization."

$IREN $NBIS $WULF $CIFR $BITF | Australian property giant Stockland accelerates Sydney’s AI boom with a new hyperscale data center in Macquarie Park.

Partnering with EdgeConneX, the firm is repositioning industrial land to meet the exploding demand for HPC and data centers.

$META $BABA $GOOGL $AMD | Meta is shifting to a "hybrid" AI strategy, launching its first frontier models under the leadership of Alexandr Wang.

Open source remains a core pillar, yet the powerful "Avocado" and "Mango" models will debut as closed source to lead in AI safety.

$RKLB $ASTS $RDW $VOYG $PL | SpaceX is set to redefine capital markets with a record breaking, retail focused IPO, targeting a $1.75T valuation.

CFO Bret Johnsen confirms a historic retail allocation, with a massive global roadshow and prospectus launch slated for late May.

$CNC $UNH $OSCR $ELV $HUM | Medicare Advantage providers benefit as the U.S. government finalizes a 2.48% rate hike for 2027.

This $13B increase provides critical revenue relief, offsetting rising medical costs and securing sector stability.

$AVGO $IREN $NBIS $CIFR $BITF | Broadcom and Google solidify a massive long term agreement through 2031 to develop future generations of custom AI chips.

This partnership with Anthropic secures the critical infrastructure required for the next decade of AI scaling.

Anthropic just announced it has crossed $30 billion in annualized revenue, and it is only the beginning of April.

Two months ago, that number was sitting at $14 billion.

Before that, it was $9 billion at the end of 2025 and it was barely $1 billion in late 2024.

The growth curve has gone from impressive to nearly vertical in the span of a single year.

Also, Anthropic just signed the largest compute deal in the company's entire history.

They have locked in multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU computing power through a three-way agreement with Google and Broadcom, with that capacity coming online starting in 2027.

To understand the sheer scale of what that means, the average American nuclear plant generates roughly one gigawatt of power.

Anthropic is reserving more than three times that amount in pure computing electricity, dedicated entirely to running its AI models.

The really striking part is not the size of the deal but rather the diversity of the hardware strategy behind it.

Anthropic trains and runs Claude simultaneously on AWS Trainium chips through Project Rainier, on Google TPUs manufactured by Broadcom, and on NVIDIA GPUs across multiple data centers.

Claude is now the only frontier AI model in the world available on all three of the largest cloud platforms at once: Amazon Web Services Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure Foundry.

That kind of multi-cloud, multi-chip architecture is not an accident but a deliberate hedge against supply bottlenecks and a signal of how seriously Anthropic is treating infrastructure as a competitive weapon.

Back in December, Broadcom's CEO revealed a mystery customer had placed a $10 billion custom chip order and then quietly disclosed it was Anthropic.

That was followed almost immediately by another $11 billion order in the same quarter.

Now the total commitment has expanded again with this new multi-gigawatt deal set to come online in 2027.

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has told investors the company expects to generate close to $100 billion in AI chip revenue in 2027, with Anthropic as one of its primary drivers.

The customer growth numbers are the most alarming signal of all for Anthropic's competitors.

When Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation in February, it disclosed that 500 business customers were each spending over $1 million per year on Claude.

Today, less than two months after that announcement, that number has already doubled to more than 1,000 enterprise customers at that same spending threshold.

Eight of the Fortune 10 companies are already running critical workloads on Claude, which means the world's most powerful corporations have quietly made Anthropic a core piece of their operations.

The forecast that looked wildly optimistic in January is now starting to look like it may be too conservative.

Internal projections earlier this year suggested Anthropic might reach $18 billion in annual revenue for all of 2026.

The company has already blown past that figure as a run rate before the second quarter has even started.

Its own bullish internal forecast called for $55 billion in 2027, a number that, at the current trajectory, no longer sounds like science fiction.

$RDW: Redwire's Solar Array Wing Cameras on Orion took this epic shot of the Lunar flyby.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE INSANE STORY OF AMERICA'S F-15 RESCUE MISSION

The U.S. military has a motto it loves to repeat: leave no man behind.

That promise played out on the world stage when an F-15 weapons officer ended up stranded on an Iranian mountain deep inside hostile territory.

The U.S military's response wasn’t “cut losses.” It was “send everything.”

And they did.

Helicopters. Drones. A-10s chewing up mountainsides. Stealth jets overhead. Electronic warfare blanketing the sky. A fake narrative planted by the CIA just to keep the enemy looking the wrong way.

At one point, the U.S. literally turned an abandoned strip of land inside enemy territory into a pop-up military base. Not metaphorically. Actually.

Then, when things got messy, as they usually do in complex operations, they blew up their own aircraft on the way out.

All of this… for one person. Is that admirable, insane, or both?

Because on one hand, this is the kind of loyalty that makes militaries function. If you’re the one flying into danger, you want to believe the cavalry isn’t just coming, it’s already airborne, engines screaming, consequences be damned.

That belief is priceless. On the other hand, the actual price is very much not.

We’re talking about risking dozens of lives, escalating a conflict, and torching equipment that costs hundreds of millions. Not to win a war, not to secure territory. Just to make sure one name doesn’t get added to a memorial wall.

There’s a brutal logic to it: if soldiers think they’re expendable, they start acting like it. Morale collapses, missions fail, wars get lost long before the headlines catch up.

So the military doubles down on the opposite message: you are not expendable, even if proving that requires something wildly disproportionate.

Which is how you end up with rescue operations that look straight out of Hollywood.

🚨 SPEAR Mortar Turns Light Vehicles Into Mobile Artillery Units.

Developed by Elbit Systems, the SPEAR 120mm soft-recoil mortar brings heavy firepower to lightweight vehicles without compromising mobility.

Designed for modern warfare, it enables rapid deployment, automated targeting, and fast “shoot-and-scoot” operations, allowing forces to strike and relocate before detection.

A major shift toward highly mobile, precision enabled battlefield firepower.

🚨🇹🇷🇧🇷 BREAKING: Turkey & Brazil Move to Jointly Build Aircraft and Drones.

Turkish Aerospace Industries and Embraer are pushing a major defense partnership to co-produce aircraft and UAVs.

▫️ Joint production of planes and drones underway
▫️ Technology transfer and shared manufacturing planned
▫️ Potential exports to third countries
▫️ Talks include co-production of ANKA & AKSUNGUR drones in Brazil.

This marks a significant step toward deeper defense-industrial integration between Ankara and Brasília.

Multimodal Hexapod #Robot Switches Locomotion Modes to Adapt to Any Terrain