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TNB Tech Minute: Australian GPS-Alternative Reaches Unicorn Status

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Canada’s defense and space-technology companies get pulled into global military spending surge. Nvidia launches the Nemotron Coalition to develop “open” AI models. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your afternoon, T&B Tech Minute for Wednesday, March 18th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.3

Advanced navigation has reached Silicon Valley's prized unicorn status, raising $110 million

0:44.4

in its latest funding round. The Australian startup built AI-assisted hardware that helps aircraft,

0:50.3

ships, and other vehicles navigate GPS dead zones, including in areas where GPS is deliberately

0:56.1

jammed. GPS jamming has been common along the Russia-Ukraine border in recent years, and now the

1:02.1

Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil is transported, is under such attacks.

1:07.6

Boeing and Airbus are already customers of advanced navigation. The company is now looking

1:12.2

to accelerate growth in the U.S. and Europe. Canada's defense and space technology companies are

1:18.1

being pulled into a global upswing of military spending. Crack and robotics is benefiting

1:23.4

from a surge in subsea surveillance and robotics orders, while Telesat and MDA space are

1:28.9

seeing stronger pipelines tied to space-based communications, earth observation, and intelligence

1:33.8

systems. Together, these trends are creating unusually large backlogs across the sector. Investor

1:39.8

enthusiasm has followed, and shares of these Canadian defense names have rallied sharply over

1:45.1

recent quarters. And NVIDIA is launching the Nemotron Coalition to develop open AI models that

1:52.4

offer an alternative to proprietary giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic. CEO Jensen Huang

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