The Tennessee Valley Authority and the state of Tennessee are partnering with the United Kingdom to accelerate nuclear fusion development. The collaboration involves Type One Energy.
Precision Neuroscience partners with a venture capital fund supported by spinal cord injury advocates to advance its brain-computer interface technology.
Amazon Web Services and Nvidia announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration, planning to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across AWS's global infrastructure. The expansion deepens the two companies' work across AI factories, CPUs, networking, open models, data processing and robotics, bringing Nvidia Vera CPUs, advanced networking, Nemotron open models and physical AI technologies to AWS.
Intuitive Machines announced on Aug 17 it was selected and authorized to proceed on a multi-satellite communications infrastructure program with anticipated value above $600M, using its IM satellite platform. The customer was not disclosed; shares rose sharply on the news.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory licensed pellet injector technology to Type One Energy, marking a step toward fusion electricity generation in East Tennessee.
L3Harris selected Intuitive Machines to support tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency and US missile defense. The award continues the company's shift into national security space, where Q2 2026 revenue rose from 3% to 30% of the total year over year.
SSI and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership under which NVIDIA made an equity investment in SSI and gave it access to the next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, allowing SSI to increase its compute by an order of magnitude. The two will also collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA's current and future compute platforms, drawing on SSI's research. NVIDIA stated it entered the partnership after obtaining rare access to SSI's closely guarded research. Jensen Huang cited Sutskever's foundational contributions beginning with AlexNet; Sutskever said SSI has 'research that is worthy of scaling up' and described the Vera Rubin commitment as a 'big bet'. Neither primary source disclosed a figure — Reuters reported, citing an unnamed source, that the stake is approximately USD 5bn. That amount is NOT confirmed by either party and is recorded here as a report, not a fact. SSI's own updates page datelines the agreement 26 July 2026; both companies announced it publicly on 27 July 2026. SSI remains private and pre-product after roughly two years in stealth.
NVIDIA launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on Jul 27, 2026 with 27-37 founding members including Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir, Cisco, IBM, Dell, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Adobe, Hugging Face and the Linux Foundation, to develop and share open tools for securing AI systems. It follows a Hugging Face security incident and reflects an industry push to keep open-source AI viable for cyber defense. Notably absent: OpenAI and Anthropic.
Barclays announced it is supporting the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium, providing expertise in energy, infrastructure, project finance, and capital markets to advance a commercial fusion power plant project in the UK.
Kongsberg Gruppen and SpinLaunch signed an agreement to deliver government-controlled LEO broadband constellations for allied governments, pairing Kongsberg's spacecraft platforms, secure ground stations, mission operations and accreditation for classified programmes with SpinLaunch's Meridian architecture. Kongsberg will support both the dual-use Meridian system and the newly announced Meridian Defense. The release also discloses two hard programme milestones: the Meridian payload is now flight-qualified and progressing to integration on the Kongsberg NanoAvionics platform, and the First Customer Link mission remains on track to launch in October 2026 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18. Kongsberg NanoAvionics was previously contracted to deliver the initial 280 satellites.