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PiLogic won a U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX STTR Phase I award to test its 'Manifest' onboard diagnostic AI on Starcloud's ground-based FlatSat and, pending integration, on-orbit aboard Starcloud-1; Starcloud is also separately subcontracted on a related award to validate its on-orbit compute and cybersecurity architecture.

LeBron James, a longtime WHOOP member and investor since 2015, became a global brand ambassador for WHOOP, with the expanded deal to include global marketing campaigns and brand activations.

Google AI & Infrastructure publicly released tasks, grading tools and an evaluation container for Physical-Engineering's Last Exam (PLE), an 85-task engineering benchmark developed jointly with Mercor, alongside an open agent competition and leaderboard.

Ornn AI, the AI-compute financial infrastructure startup (CEO Kush Bavaria), is negotiating a third tranche of Series A funding that could value the company above $1 billion, per an Axios Pro exclusive report circulated via Binance/ChainCatcher.

Danish science outlet Videnskab.dk profiles the Fermi Explorer interstellar probe project, an effort to reach Alpha Centauri founded by Starcloud co-founder Philip Johnston, who is now seeking $15 million from private investors to build the spacecraft.

A New York Magazine (Intelligencer) feature on the most influential people shaping AI in 2026 was keyword-matched to Mercor co-founder Adarsh Hiremath by name, indicating he is named among the engineers, founders and brokers profiled; full article text could not be retrieved to confirm the specific context of his inclusion.