{"id":1029588,"date":"2026-08-19T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029588"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:25:10","slug":"pentagon-pressure-to-move-ai-faster-drives-smacks-new-funding-round-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/pentagon-pressure-to-move-ai-faster-drives-smacks-new-funding-round-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon pressure to move AI faster drives Smack&#8217;s new funding round, CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military, is raising funding to speed production of its flagship product and make wearable AI hardware designed for the battlefield. <\/p>\n<p>The $61 million Series B funding round comes months after the Defense Department declared Anthropic a &#8220;supply-chain risk&#8221; in March, a rupture that sent military branches scrambling to diversify their AI vendors and turned startups like Smack \u200cfrom afterthoughts into \u2060hot commodities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military, is raising funding to speed production of its flagship product and make wearable AI hardware designed for the battlefield. The $61 million Series B funding round comes months after the Defense Department declared Anthropic a &#8220;supply-chain risk&#8221; in March, a rupture that sent military branches scrambling to diversify their AI vendors and turned startups like Smack \u200cfrom afterthoughts into \u2060hot commodities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029609,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029588\/revisions\/1029609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}