The Japanese government is right to encourage entrepreneurs and venture capital to enter a sector long dominated by established contractors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/10/06/japan/japan-defense-startup-ecosystem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #defense #atla #ministryofdefense #rd #inqtel #cia #us #dodukraine
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/10446/ US Department of War partners with CIA-backed In-Q-Tel to fast-track battlefield technologies ##BioManufacturing #AppliedAi #BattlefieldUse #CiaPartnership #CommercialTechnologies #ContestedLogistics #CriticalTechnologies #DeepTechScouting #Defense #Defense&Pentagon #DirectedEnergy #EarlyStageCompanies #GlobalTechnologyScouting #Hypersonics #InQTel #NationalSecurityApplications #pentagon #QuantumTechnology #StrategicTransitionPathways #USDepartmentOfWar #VentureFund
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https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/20321/ Pentagon partners with CIA’s In-Q-Tel for ‘technology scouting’ #CriticalTechnologyAreas #InQTel #MichaelDodd #Pentagon #PentagonNews #UndersecretaryForResearchAndEngineering
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Pentagon Taps CIA-Backed Firm for Tech Scouting Push
The Pentagon is shaking things up with a bold 12-month plan to fast-track cutting-edge tech into the field, partnering with CIA-backed firm In-Q-Tel to scout out game-changing innovations that can give military teams a decisive edge. Over the next year, the goal is to move promising prototypes out of the lab and into real-world action.
#Pentagon #Cia #Inqtel #TechnologyScouting #MilitaryTechnology
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📰 Organização ligada à CIA e Banco Mundial fecham acordo para enviar funcionários ao Brasil
#CIA #NobleReach #InQTel #Palantir #VictoriaVirasingh #EUA #bancomundial #Panamá #colômbia #News #Darpa #Brasil #NSA
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German drone maker Quantum Systems gained an early foothold in the United States with help from a CIA-linked investor, its co-CEO says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/31/companies/cia-investor-german-drones-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #germany #drones #defense #quantumsystems #inqtel #cia #fbi #europeanunion
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¿Cómo entró Quantum Systems en EE.UU. con el respaldo de In-Q-Tel? #QuantumSystems #InQTEL #CIA #Drones #Defensa #TecnologiaMilitar #EstadosUnidos #Alemania #Europa #IndustriaMilitar #Geopolitica #Ucrania #felizlunes #31deagosto
https://donporque.com/quantum-systems-in-q-tel-estados-unidos/
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https://www.europesays.com/pt/400836/ Startup alemã de drones kamikaze prepara-se para ser avaliada em 2,5 mil milhões – Defesa #AgênciaCentralDeInteligência #Berlim #Business #DonaldTrump #Economy #Empresas #europa #FaculdadeTáhirih #InQTel #MilMilhõesDeEuros #milhões #MilhõesDeEuros #Munique #PeterThiel #Portugal #PT #QuantumSystems #SequoiaCapital
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Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck
Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction researchDear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.
The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.
THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES
In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.
That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
WHY THE MONEY FLOWS
The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.
Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.
The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.
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The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
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The CIA’s Venture Arm Just Bet on a Data Center Builder. That Tells You Everything About the New Arms Race. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, has invested in data center developer Prom...
#BigDataPro #AI #national #security #CIA #venture #capital #Data #Center #Infrastructure #In-Q-Tel
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Space startups find more paths to liquidity as investors warm to maturing sector
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Alors que l'Europe se reprend en main et re-développe des capacités technologiques souveraines, il faut se rappeler de comment le renseignement américain et #InQTel ont sabotés, avec l'aide du groupe de private equity américain Texas Pacific Group, le géant français de la carte à puce Gemplus.
Méfiance donc quand des VC affiliés avec le #NerdReich cherchent à rentrer au capital des boîtes européennes.
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Red Sift expands Cisco partnership with addition of Brand Trust platform Cloud email security and brand protection startup Red Sift Ltd. today announced an expanded partnership with Cisco Systems...
#NEWS #Security #The-Latest #Brand #Trust #Cisco #Cyber #cybersecurity #Highland #Europe #In-Q-Tel
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Evolving threats from cyber to lasers and jammers Satellites are increasingly vulnerable to cyber...
https://spacenews.com/evolving-threats-from-cyber-to-lasers-and-jammers/
#Military #News #cybersecurity #In-Q-Tel #Maxar #Intelligence #Northrop #Grumman #Satellite #Conference #U.S.
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#InQTel (or IQT) is an american company funded by the #CIA (in other words: financed by taxpayer's money). IQT invests into IT firms and startups, whose products are useful for the CIA and other government agencies of the USA.
💰 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
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All three of Trump's campaigns were heavily funded by this organization's founder who is close friends with Elon Musk and also has direct ties to the CIA, but we are supposed to believe Trump is going to "Make America Great Again" and that the controlled opposition is the resistance?! 😆😂
#USA #CIA #Trump #America #Elon #ElonMusk #Twitter #PeterThiel #InQTel #Blackrock #Conspiracy #MAGA #ConspiracyTheory #Qanon #PsyOp
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Maybell Quantum Announces $25 Million Series A Funding Led by Cerberus https://thequantuminsider.com/?p=2361246 #Capital_Markets #Caruso_Ventures #Cerberus_Capital_Management #Corban_TillemannDick #Decisive_Point #InQTel #Lavrock_Ventures #Mark_IV_Capital #Maybell_Quantum #Olive_Capital #series_A #quantumdaily Insider Brief Maybell Quantum closed a $25 million funding round led by an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Maybell intends to use the funds to scale manufacturing and open
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#CIA’s Venture Capital #INQTel Partners With #TrustLab
Trust Lab, founded by a former #Google exec for content #moderation, will identify “online harmful content, including toxicity and #misinformation.” to "safeguard" the #internet
https://bit.ly/3B49liP #surveillance #privacy
