{
  "id": 15977,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/mariana-minerals-310m-series-b-autonomous-critical-minerals",
  "title": "The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.",
  "summary": "People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to change that. Mariana […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Cristian Dina",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-03T22:58:51.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-04T05:10:21.797Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15977",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/mariana-minerals-310m-series-b-autonomous-critical-minerals",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}