⊲ Tech.eu ⊳ Founded this year, UK-based defence startup Agon has launched with $30 million in funding to build a platform training AI-powered autonomous weapons in virtual battlefields. Founded by...
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Royal Navy Accelerates Warfighting Readiness
⊲ Halldale ⊳ Project Selborne, the Royal Navy's £1.26 billion shore based training programme, is preparing for Epoch 3, due to begin in April 2027, with a focus on faster warfighting readiness and...
Pilots, Racers, Now Job Simulators
⊲ Yahoo News Canada ⊳ Tech billionaire Mark Cuban says the "next great AI application" will be a job simulator, allowing future workers to train for careers the way pilots and race car drivers...
Helsing Combat AI Trained in Days Not Years
⊲ YouTube ⊳ Dominic Hauschild, defence correspondent at the Sunday Times, describes AI fighter pilots developed by German company Helsing, whose simulators compress a million hours of training into...
A Decade On: Revisiting the Simulation Singularity
Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
The Eye as Battlefield Interface
⊲ Military AI ⊳ US firm Syntec Optics has secured new orders for optical components supporting AI-enabled military augmented reality headsets that use eye tracking to identify where soldiers are...
Educational Design Beats Immersion
⊲ Cureus ⊳ US Researchers tested a new model for judging how well virtual reality, augmented reality and handheld ultrasound training work together in medical education. Forty one students finished...
Antycip Partners With LuxCarta Geospatial
⊲ ST Engineering Antycip ⊳ ST Engineering Antycip has partnered with geospatial specialist LuxCarta to give French defence organisations faster access to AI driven, high resolution terrain and...
Simulation Accelerates Real World Robotics
⊲ The Hindu BusinessLine ⊳ At Computex 2026 in Taipei, technology leaders described how simulation and digital twin tools are speeding up robot deployment. Nvidia's Deepu Tala said simulated...
Grand Unified Theory of Tech Jargon
⊲ 36Kr Europe ⊳ A new analysis from ITJuzi explains that world models, the metaverse, digital twins, simulation platforms, physical AI and Web3 serve different purposes rather than describing the...
AI-Powered Military Training Analytics Launched
⊲ Thales Group ⊳ Thales has launched its Gladiator Training Data Analytics AI-powered platform that converts raw land training exercise data into structured intelligence for After Action Reviews....
Midjourney from 2D Images to 3D Scans
⊲ The Register ⊳ Midjourney, known for AI image creation, has launched Midjourney Medical, centred on a full-body ultrasound scanner that aims to produce detailed internal images in around 60...
Self-Driving Veterans Build AI Simulations
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has secured a $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation. Led by...
A Timely Event for Military Simulation & Training
⊲ Halldale ⊳ DSET 2026 opens at Cheltenham Racecourse on 23 June as European NATO defence spending reaches historic levels, raising urgent questions about how much reaches training and simulation....
XR Moves from Experimental to Operational
⊲ Simulation News ⊳ Spanish XR company Virtualware is presenting its VIROO platform at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, positioning XR as operational military infrastructure rather than experimental...
AR That Thinks Ahead
⊲ Tech Xplore ⊳ Fiona Ryan, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, is advancing AR technology by developing a method to predict user gaze in 3D environments. Unlike current AR devices that react to gaze,...