Walmart is adding 300 Zipline drone delivery sites around the country, and Zipline has raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation. Drones that lower orders into backyards are moving from test towns to everyday errands, and neighbors are starting to weigh in.
Shield, the San Diego defense tech company known as Shield AI, will buy Kirkland radar maker Echodyne in a deal valued at up to $5.3 billion. It is also raising $2.5 billion at a $28.8 billion valuation. The bet is that the next decade of warfare will be decided by who can see drones first.
Axon will invest an additional $1.2 billion in San Mateo drone maker Skydio and become its exclusive distributor to public safety agencies in the US and Canada. The deal lifts Axon's stake to about 37% and bets that docked drones will reach emergencies before officers do. It also sharpens an old question about who watches the sky.
Sparknify's ten picks for November 7 to 13, 2026 include a restored Cold War missile site, 1860s 3D portraits at Stanford, a horror score performed live at the Castro and a fee-free Muir Woods, plus six more Bay Area finds.
A Georgia O'Keeffe landscape bought for $3,800 in 1963 and hidden for about 40 years in an East Village closet goes to Christie's New York on November 17, estimated at $2 million to $3 million. It is likely the first of her three views of Lobo Peak. Its paper trail, now searchable online, is what lets a closet story carry a seven-figure estimate.
