Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
Hard Power Soft Power and the Future of the West by Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, the founders of Palantir. They make the case for big tech working with government on big tech problems including defense, explaining how Big Tech abandoned our government and country when their workers protested defense-related business. Forums: r/InternationalNews : Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts r/Raytheon : Well its over. r/SpaceXLounge : Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts - including SpaceX and OpenAI r/wallstreetbets : Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts r/technology : Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts — Consortium likely to include SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget
The Palantir crowd endorsed Trump and spread the idea that they were taking on the elites and war mongering defense contract industry when they are simply just trying to become their own version of the foreign policy “blob” but with AI. Institutional capture at its finest.
Oh good, the guy who owns the VP -elect, is teaming up with the guy who owns the President-elect to bid for pentagon contracts, what could possibly go wrong? Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
This would be the dream team. And no, our enemies cannot compete. I just read an advance copy of The Technological Republic—Hard Power Soft Power and the Future of the West by Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, the founders of Palantir. They make the case for big tech working wit…
Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts — Consortium likely to include SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget