{"id":213057,"date":"2026-05-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/anduril-raises-5-billion-in-funding-and-is-valued-at-61-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:55:08","slug":"anduril-raises-5-billion-in-funding-and-is-valued-at-61-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/anduril-raises-5-billion-in-funding-and-is-valued-at-61-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Anduril Raises $5 Billion in Funding and Is Valued at $61 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/anduril-raises-5-billion.html\">Anduril Raises $5 Billion in Funding and Is Valued at $61 Billion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/anduril-raises-5-billion.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/anduril-raises-5-billion.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anduril, a defense tech firm specializing in AI-backed weapons, announced it has secured $5 billion in new funding, valuing the company at $61 billion, doubling its previous valuation of $30.5 billion.<\/li>\n<li>This latest funding round was led by long-time investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.<\/li>\n<li>Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and others, Anduril has developed various advanced military technologies including autonomous submarines, jets, weaponized drones, and augmented reality helmets.<\/li>\n<li>The company aims to transform American national defense and has made significant strides in autonomous warfare.<\/li>\n<li>Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Anduril has tested AI-backed drones and developed several pilotless aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>Anduril signed a landmark 10-year, $20 billion deal with the Army in March and is part of a consortium developing a $185 billion space-interceptor missile system for the U.S. government.<\/li>\n<li>The company\u2019s revenue increased more than twofold to $2.2 billion in 2025, it has expanded its workforce, and completed its first international program for the Royal Australian Navy.<\/li>\n<li>Anduril opened a $1 billion factory in Ohio to accelerate the production of its weapons systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anduril Raises $5 Billion in Funding and Is Valued at $61 Billion https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/anduril-raises-5-billion.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/05\/12\/multimedia\/OakArticle-6a03377e-1-gjkt-2-mcjv\/OakArticle-6a03377e-1-gjkt-2-mcjv-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213059,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213057\/revisions\/213059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}