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Unregulierte Tech-Tests: #Thiel, Altman und Co wollen #FreedomCities

"Im Weißen Haus sollen Gespräche geführt werden, wie man Freedom Cities in den USA errichten kann – Städte ohne Regulierung.

Klinische Tests ohne Genehmigung, autonome Autos ohne Auflagen, Kernreaktoren und Nuklearenergie ohne staatliche Überwachung und eine Sonderwirtschaftszone, in der es kaum Steuern zu zahlen gibt und..."

#Palantir #Anduril #Oklo #SpaceX #Tesla #Minicircle
heise.de/news/Unregulierte-Tec

heise online · Unregulierte Tech-Tests: Thiel, Altman und Co wollen Freedom Cities
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countries are ramping up their drone investments.

Thankful to our for standing with us!

▪️The will supply $38 million worth of drones produced by company in the coming months. The drones will be used to carry out operations in the .

▪️ has launched a EUR 10 million initiative to develop automated drone interception technology, electronic warfare, and guided anti-drone missiles.

Legit thought this was a hack last night, but it is in fact far weirder.

Also, I absolutely hate the fact this company is called Anduril and that it's logo is the pommel of Aragorn's sword.

Yes, I am that much of a Tolkien nerd.

#anduril #defence #cybersecurity

cyberdaily.au/culture/11736-an

Cyber Daily · Anduril's new recruitment campaign looks like a hack... But it isn'tBy David Hollingworth

Anduril and Microsoft Forge Alliance to Revolutionize Defense with AI-Powered Visual Augmentation

In a groundbreaking partnership, Anduril Industries and Microsoft aim to enhance military capabilities through advanced AI-driven visual augmentation systems. This collaboration promises to reshape de...

news.lavx.hu/article/anduril-a

🚨Index of 68 Weapons Startups🚨 This document illustrates the venture capital military and weapons build-out. Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund (Peter Thiel’s VC firm) and YCombinator are the biggest drivers of the industry’s new era of militarization. They are working to move weapons production from existing primes – Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc. – into venture capital-backed startups. This transition is accelerated by Trump’s election as venture capital weapons executives move to take control. https://www.vcinfodocs.com/weapons-startups #WhiteHouseCoup #LockheedMartin #Anduril #YCombinator #Raytheon #AndreessenHorowitz #a16z #FoundersFund
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Then there’s the #taxes, of course.

The billionaires don’t want to pay them, and Trump is amenable to that.

Scott Bessent, nominated for Treasury Secretary, said “the most important economic issue of the day”
was making sure tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy stayed in place.

Bessent is accused of being a tax dodge himself.

Mass privatization could make things even more profitable for the tech industry

But that’s all small potatoes.

The real money is in the #military.
The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen
— also a board member of Meta and major investor in X
— has been recruiting Trump administration staffers and even influencing Defense Department and intelligence agency hiring, The Washington Post reports.

As usual, he’s given the game away by bragging about it on a podcast.

Silicon Valley investors generally have been bullish on defense tech like industry poster children #Anduril and #Palantir.

(a16z is a major Anduril backer, and both companies are founded and owned by some of the Valley’s earliest MAGA faithful.)

They want to shift Pentagon spending away from old-school contractors like Lockheed Martin,
which appears to be so freaked out that when the “Big Tech Alert” X account noted it had unfollowed Musk,
the Lockheed account DM’d to say it was “inadvertent.”

Musk’s #SpaceX has a number of contracts with the US military and intelligence agencies,
including the so-called #Starshield satellites.

He’s used his influence to meddle in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and has even reportedly taken phone calls from Vladimir Putin.

The military’s interest in artificial intelligence has also inspired a new race for everything from
building out data centers to providing cloud computing.

Musk’s #xAI, something of an also-ran next to OpenAI, Meta, and Google, could legitimize itself with DoD contracts.

OpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivot

**A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year.**

"...Today, OpenAI is announcing that its technology will be deployed directly on the battlefield.

The company says it will partner with the defense-tech company Anduril..."

technologyreview.com/2024/12/0

MIT Technology Review · OpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivotBy James O'Donnell