"Tom Mueller is driving his candy green Porsche Taycan Turbo S the way he builds rocket engines: with a terrifying amount of instantaneous thrust..." Before titles like "the godfather of rocketry" were tossed in Tom's (@lrocket) direction, there was an engineer with a penchant for the impossible. @elonmusk came asking, "Can you build something bigger?" Tom spent the next two decades answering it, redefining what was considered possible, and helping lay the foundation for a generation of spaceflight that the world is still catching up to. It's impossible to tell the story of modern spaceflight without Tom's story. And it's impossible to tell the story of its future without Impulse. Forbes brings it all together ⬇️ forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2…

big wk of funding @ Lux family co's $2.3B 💳 Ramp (global financial mgmt of everything) $750M 🚀 Impulse Space (orbital logistics defense) $500M 🧠 Flourish (unqiuely new neuro-based AI) $500M ☀️ Helion (next-gen power through fusion) $465M 🏭 Layup Parts (composites/Anduril alum) $42M 🧬 Waypoint Bio (AI engineered cells) $20M

More than half of Cognition's first 50 employees were former founders. @ScottWu46 sat down with @breeves08 and @lux_capital to talk about correctness over comfort, staying focused on our mission, and what it takes to build an incredible team.

one of the greatest founders Lux ever partnered with REARDON We first partnered in CTRL-Labs where he built coveted non-invasive brain-machine interface to CONTROL computers that Meta aggressively sought acquired NOW recruiting INSANELY smart talent🤯 unveiling: FLOURISH.

Reardon is one of the most inventive entrepreneurs across multiple generations (Internet Explorer, CTRL Labs BCI) and now he’s working on Flourish and neuro models for AI. Deep dive:

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope. wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-i…

Here's an exclusive inside look at Flourish, a startup full of neuroscientists and AI researchers working together to make discoveries about the brain and use them to create a more efficient form of AI that learns like people do. wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-i…

Today, Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation. Last time we grew this fast, we were 1/20th the size. For 2000 years, business was built on two pillars. Today, a third: intelligence. It’s your least governed cost. It’s also your single greatest opportunity.

Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/ex…

We've raised a $500 million Series D to continue solving the next big challenge in space: movement beyond launch. With over $1 billion in total capital raised, our team and our production are scaling aggressively to accelerate humanity’s future beyond Earth. Read more: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…

Introducing the Cosmos Coalition A new global initiative with NVIDIA and leading AI labs to build and open-source frontier world models for physical AI. Runway joins as a founding member, working alongside NVIDIA and a set of leading AI labs to build, share and accelerate world model research and development through a common open ecosystem.

RF spectrum and undersea fiber built the modern Internet. The AI era will require massive compute across Earth and space, connected not by radio, but by optical links moving data orders of magnitude faster. Excited to back @ObservableSpace, building the future of space and terrestrial laser comms - h/t @Bloomberg

Are AI data centers in space viable? They will be if we build the right infra. That's why Lux led a $90M round into @ObservableSpace, which is using lasers to create higher bandwidth comms between satellites and Earth-based ground stations:

Lux is co-hosting Humans in the Loop on June 10 in SF. We've nominated a new seed investment (co-founded by phenomenal serial entrepreneur) focused on developing an entirely new UI for AI applications. He'll debut his product (and company) on stage at the event. Join us! humansintheloop2026.com/ @kirstenagreen @eurie_kim

1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc. Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M. We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software.

ROBOTS AT WORK - How @jpmorgan is using @getripcord AI and robotics to digitize check and remittance processing jpmorgan.com/payments/newsro…

Aleph 2.0 is here. Now you can edit a single frame in your video, preview the change and then Aleph 2.0 carries that edit across the rest of your video. Try it now in the new Edit Studio on web at the link below.

Modal is a special company building the future of AI infrastructure - a platform of unique primitives scaling up inference, sandboxes & RL with S-tier developer love They're growing quickly & hiring (in NYC & SF!) @Lux_Capital is thrilled to double down on their Series C 🚀🚀

Frontier models set the floor. Specialized models raise the ceiling. With Modal, @AppliedCompute is training custom agent workforces for companies like DoorDash, Mercor, and Cognition.

5/ The tech Q is often: what happens when everyone HAS an invention? The geopolitical Q is the inverse: what happens when everyone LACKS food, energy, security or shelter? Buffers deceive. Fertilizer especially (Hormuz) Bread loaves become bread lines become bread riots