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Field dispatches.
Announcements, research notes, and engineering posts from the Obsidyan team. Written by the people doing the work.
Featured · Company
2026.06.29 · 8 min
Obsidyan emerges from stealth to build Africa's sovereign defense intelligence layer.
We're announcing $40M in seed funding, the first cohort of Obsidyan engineers, and our roadmap to deploy sovereign AI defense systems across the African continent.
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Research12 min
2026.06.18
Training a sovereign foundation model with African language coverage.
Product5 min
2026.06.04
Aether enters wind-tunnel validation at the Lagos engineering campus.
Partnership4 min
2026.05.22
A memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian Centre for AI.
Research10 min
2026.05.10
Edge inference at <5W: notes from the Sentinel sensor program.
Company6 min
2026.04.29
How we're hiring: notes from the first Obsidyan engineering cohort.
Product9 min
2026.04.12
Citadel design principles: latency, audit, and the operator's mind.
Research11 min
2026.03.28
Post-quantum readiness for sovereign African networks.
Partnership3 min
2026.03.14