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For more than a decade, the United States has been dependent on foreign technology and has lacked a domestic drone component ecosystem. This financing would allow us to build the components necessary for a thriving, sovereign dual-use drone industry and help to secure our nation's industrial future.
We at @PDW_ai are so honored to serve this important mission. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We at @PDW_ai are so honored to serve this important mission. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The @DeptofWar’s Office of Strategic Capital announced an $820 million conditional loan commitment with Performance Drone Works (@PDW_ai) to expand domestic manufacturing for critical drone components.
This financing will establish a new, high-volume source of domestically for Group 1 and Group 2 unmanned aircraft, strengthening the U.S. drone industrial base and addressing critical supply chain bottlenecks.
ACHIEVING AMERICAN DRONE DOMINANCE
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Great to have James Slider and @PDW_ai join the CDA board and continue to help advance American Drone Dominance.
@WorkerDrones
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American drone leadership depends on what we can build, how fast we can scale it, and whether operators can put it to work.
I’m joining the Commercial Drone Alliance's Board of Directors to help advance that work. At @PDW_ai, we see what it takes to move from engineering to apability. Strong domestic supply chains and policy that keeps pace with technology are essential to getting more American drones into operators' hands.
I look forward to working with CDA’s members to tackle those challenges. Read the full announcement below.
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Matt Higgins retweeted
American drone leadership depends on what we can build, how fast we can scale it, and whether operators can put it to work.
I’m joining the Commercial Drone Alliance's Board of Directors to help advance that work. At @PDW_ai, we see what it takes to move from engineering to apability. Strong domestic supply chains and policy that keeps pace with technology are essential to getting more American drones into operators' hands.
I look forward to working with CDA’s members to tackle those challenges. Read the full announcement below.
I’m joining the Commercial Drone Alliance's Board of Directors to help advance that work. At @PDW_ai, we see what it takes to move from engineering to apability. Strong domestic supply chains and policy that keeps pace with technology are essential to getting more American drones into operators' hands.
I look forward to working with CDA’s members to tackle those challenges. Read the full announcement below.
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The horrific moment a russian FAB-3000 struck a school where civilians had gathered to receive humanitarian aid.
31 killed. 48 still missing.
russia is a murderous state. Stop pretending otherwise.
31 killed. 48 still missing.
russia is a murderous state. Stop pretending otherwise.
Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine.
💔 31 civilians killed. 48 still missing.
This is the human cost of russia’s deliberate mass murder of civilians.
And Donald Trump stands with the aggressor. Never let him rewrite that reality. Remember who he sides with.
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Bloomberg @business this weekend highlighted PDW’s role in building the manufacturing capacity America needs to deliver drones at scale.
The @DeptofWar's Office of Strategic Capital is helping accelerate that effort through a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million to ion of critical drone components.
That capacity would support PDW and other U.S. manufacturers, bolstering America’s drone industrial base and helping deliver the capability operators need. Read the article below.
The @DeptofWar's Office of Strategic Capital is helping accelerate that effort through a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million to ion of critical drone components.
That capacity would support PDW and other U.S. manufacturers, bolstering America’s drone industrial base and helping deliver the capability operators need. Read the article below.
US Starts at 'Basically Zero' in Building Cheap Military Drones bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Matt Higgins retweeted
For more than a decade, the United States has been dependent on foreign technology and has lacked a domestic drone component ecosystem. This financing would allow us to build the components necessary for a thriving, sovereign dual-use drone industry and help to secure our nation's industrial future.
We at @PDW_ai are so honored to serve this important mission. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We at @PDW_ai are so honored to serve this important mission. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The @DeptofWar’s Office of Strategic Capital announced an $820 million conditional loan commitment with Performance Drone Works (@PDW_ai) to expand domestic manufacturing for critical drone components.
This financing will establish a new, high-volume source of domestically for Group 1 and Group 2 unmanned aircraft, strengthening the U.S. drone industrial base and addressing critical supply chain bottlenecks.
ACHIEVING AMERICAN DRONE DOMINANCE
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With freezers heating up to 131 degrees Fahrenheit all over Europe last night, let’s talk cybersecurity spending.
It’s about to double as a percentage of revenue. And AI will be the catalyst.
Consider the numbers.
According to IANS Research, companies spend an average of just 0.69% of revenue on cybersecurity. That number was essentially flat in 2025. In fact, security budget growth slowed to just 4%, the lowest in five years.
Meanwhile, Gartner forecasts global cybersecurity spending of approximately $244 billion in 2026.
Think about the disconnect.
We’re entering an era where AI dramatically reduces the cost of launching sophisticated attacks. Criminals can operate at machine speed, scale attacks across thousands of targets, and exploit vulnerabilities faster than human defenders can respond.
Yet corporations are still allocating less than one penny of every revenue dollar to protecting their digital infrastructure.
I predict that changes dramatically and immediately.
By 2030, I believe average corporate cybersecurity spending will rise from 0.7% of revenue to 1.2%–1.5%.
That’s a 70%–115% increase in spending intensity, even before accounting for revenue growth.
For a $10 billion company, that’s the difference between spending $70 million and as much as $150 million annually.
The catalyst won’t be another compliance mandate. It will be a series of increasingly destructive attacks that make boards realize cybersecurity isn’t an IT expense.
Superheating freezers will look like child’s play.
It’s business continuity.
We insure our buildings against fire. We insure our executives against liability. Yet we’ve built an economy dependent on digital infrastructure that can be compromised at extraordinary speed and scale.
The winners of the next decade won’t just be the companies building better AI.
They’ll be the companies that make an AI-powered economy safe enough to operate.
Cybersecurity may be one of the most underappreciated structural growth opportunities of the next decade.
It’s about to double as a percentage of revenue. And AI will be the catalyst.
Consider the numbers.
According to IANS Research, companies spend an average of just 0.69% of revenue on cybersecurity. That number was essentially flat in 2025. In fact, security budget growth slowed to just 4%, the lowest in five years.
Meanwhile, Gartner forecasts global cybersecurity spending of approximately $244 billion in 2026.
Think about the disconnect.
We’re entering an era where AI dramatically reduces the cost of launching sophisticated attacks. Criminals can operate at machine speed, scale attacks across thousands of targets, and exploit vulnerabilities faster than human defenders can respond.
Yet corporations are still allocating less than one penny of every revenue dollar to protecting their digital infrastructure.
I predict that changes dramatically and immediately.
By 2030, I believe average corporate cybersecurity spending will rise from 0.7% of revenue to 1.2%–1.5%.
That’s a 70%–115% increase in spending intensity, even before accounting for revenue growth.
For a $10 billion company, that’s the difference between spending $70 million and as much as $150 million annually.
The catalyst won’t be another compliance mandate. It will be a series of increasingly destructive attacks that make boards realize cybersecurity isn’t an IT expense.
Superheating freezers will look like child’s play.
It’s business continuity.
We insure our buildings against fire. We insure our executives against liability. Yet we’ve built an economy dependent on digital infrastructure that can be compromised at extraordinary speed and scale.
The winners of the next decade won’t just be the companies building better AI.
They’ll be the companies that make an AI-powered economy safe enough to operate.
Cybersecurity may be one of the most underappreciated structural growth opportunities of the next decade.
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Matt Higgins retweeted
European supermarkets hit by freezer hacking ft.trib.al/0CCoIp6
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Clients are pressuring law firms to use AI to work faster and pass along savings, even as lawyers resist adopting new tools that could reshape how they do their jobs.
Read more: thein.fo/48m5Rs2
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Law firms are going to be forced to pass on to clients the savings they’re realizing from AI or else they will soon be annihilated by AI native firms.
Most obvious play in AI right now.
Most obvious play in AI right now.
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Clients are not feeling these savings and yet they are aware of them.
So much of the research layer that used to be the domain of first year Associates can be handled by Claude.
So much of the research layer that used to be the domain of first year Associates can be handled by Claude.
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Clients are pressuring law firms to use AI to work faster and pass along savings, even as lawyers resist adopting new tools that could reshape how they do their jobs.
Read more: thein.fo/48m5Rs2
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Matt Higgins retweeted
someone is paying black hat hackers to build an AI that only knows how to attack, and the training data is every real exploit that ever worked
a researcher got the offer and said the dataset was so massive he thought it was an FBI sting. he turned it down, but somebody won’t
we’re not talking about chatbots writing phishing emails anymore, we’re talking about custom-trained models built on real vulnerabilities that have actually worked
chainalysis just got breached using AI agents this week. the binance hack used automated laundering that crashed forensic dashboards. and now someone is building the next generation of tools to make all of that even easier
the arms race isn’t coming, it started and most of us just didn’t notice
a researcher got the offer and said the dataset was so massive he thought it was an FBI sting. he turned it down, but somebody won’t
we’re not talking about chatbots writing phishing emails anymore, we’re talking about custom-trained models built on real vulnerabilities that have actually worked
chainalysis just got breached using AI agents this week. the binance hack used automated laundering that crashed forensic dashboards. and now someone is building the next generation of tools to make all of that even easier
the arms race isn’t coming, it started and most of us just didn’t notice
Yesterday, an anonymous black hat group reached out with an insane RL request.
They offered an astronomical amount of money to post-train open-weight models on exploit data.
The amount of attack data they claim to hold is unlike anything I have ever seen. If someone told me this was an undercover FBI dataset, I would have believed it.
For context, a white-hat project I worked on using GLM-5.3 used less than one percent of that volume, and it already outperformed frontier models by a huge margin.
Of course, I turned it down. But what genuinely scares me is knowing someone else will eventually take the deal.
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Remember Kostyantyn Vlasenko, the soldier from Ukraine’s 30th Mechanized who was recently rescued from the battlefield in a spectacular evacuation using a drone?
Today, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
For 491 days, since June 2025, he had continuously held his ge of Senkivka in Kharkiv Oblast, carrying out missions. For 232 of those days, he was completely alone, after his fellow soldier was killed while attempting to withdraw.
After being severely wounded, he was forced to amputate his own feet with a knife. Yet he remained in radio contact, continued relaying vital battlefield intelligence, and received food and medical supplies delivered by drones.
Finally, in October 2026, after numerous failed attempts to rescue him, he was successfully evacuated from the battlefield using a heavy-lift drone, in what was the first rescue operation of its kind in history.
Today, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
For 491 days, since June 2025, he had continuously held his ge of Senkivka in Kharkiv Oblast, carrying out missions. For 232 of those days, he was completely alone, after his fellow soldier was killed while attempting to withdraw.
After being severely wounded, he was forced to amputate his own feet with a knife. Yet he remained in radio contact, continued relaying vital battlefield intelligence, and received food and medical supplies delivered by drones.
Finally, in October 2026, after numerous failed attempts to rescue him, he was successfully evacuated from the battlefield using a heavy-lift drone, in what was the first rescue operation of its kind in history.
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Great news
US greenlights 500 Patriot missiles for Ukraine, with $2.1 billion to be paid by allies breakingdefense.com/2026/10/us-gre…
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US greenlights 500 Patriot missiles for Ukraine, with $2.1 billion to be paid by allies breakingdefense.com/2026/10/us-gre…
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So many years of operator insight married with great engineering produced the PDW C100.
It began with a simple premise: what’s the most air support and capability we can fit in a soldier’s rucksack? Let’s work backward from the problem sets and design the most versatile drone we can conceive.
Long before drones became indispensable on the Ukrainian battlefield or the world realized that American made drones are a national security priority.
Now the C100 is deployed throughout all military branches and performing missions around the world.
It really is worthy of being in a museum.
I’m so proud of the PDW team and grateful to the @USArmy Aviation Museum for the recognition.
It began with a simple premise: what’s the most air support and capability we can fit in a soldier’s rucksack? Let’s work backward from the problem sets and design the most versatile drone we can conceive.
Long before drones became indispensable on the Ukrainian battlefield or the world realized that American made drones are a national security priority.
Now the C100 is deployed throughout all military branches and performing missions around the world.
It really is worthy of being in a museum.
I’m so proud of the PDW team and grateful to the @USArmy Aviation Museum for the recognition.
The role of unmanned systems in Army Aviation is evolving, and the C100 is now part of that story.
Last week, the @USArmy Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker unveiled the C100 as its newest display, recognizing a modular, adaptable platform shaped by mission requirements and how field.
The C100 remains fielded with Army formations today, supporting operators across reconnaissance, communications, cargo delivery, fires support and other mission sets, while continuing to evolve based on their experience.
Its place in the museum captures an important moment in Army Aviation history while C100s in the field continue helping shape what comes next. Read more at the link below.
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The C100 is earning its place in @USArmy Aviation history while helping shape what comes next.
Built to adapt and proven in Soldiers’ hands, the C100 has quickly established its operational value and place of recognition among mission-enabling military aircraft.
The C100 with Army units around the world, putting reconnaissance, communications and other critical mission capabilities in operators’ hands through one modular aircraft. That field experience drives continuous improvement, with operator feedback from real-world missions helping PDW refine performance, integrate new capabilities and keep the aircraft evolving with the force.
This Saturday, October 24, the Army Aviation Museum will unveil a C100 as its newest display, connecting the Army’s aviation heritage with the adaptable systems supporting its formations today.
See it at the Models & Machines show and Training Support Facility Open House, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
Video credit: Army Aviation Museum Foundation
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