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Project Maven

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25 articles accelerating

Project Maven has appeared in 25 articles since 2018-05. Coverage peaked in 2024Q1 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Google, Pentagon, DoD, Microsoft.

Articles
25
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
13
publications
The Resignation
In 2018, a dozen Google employees resigned over a Pentagon AI contract and killed it. In 2026, OpenAI's head of robotics resigned over a Pentagon AI contract an...
The Vacuum
In 2018, a dozen Google employees resigned over a Pentagon AI contract. Eight years later, Palmer Luckey's Anduril is raising $4 billion at a $30 billion valuat...

Coverage Timeline

2026-03-15
Bloomberg 7 related

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran

An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran.

2026-03-14
Bloomberg 7 related

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran

An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran.

2025-08-15
Wired 6 related

Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July

A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here.  —  A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract.  It went all Nazi, because well, birds of a feather ...  1...

2025-04-21
TechCrunch 5 related

Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …

2024-03-03
Bloomberg 3 related

A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data

and could run at speeds faster than humans can comprehend https://www.bloomberg.com/... Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : AI identifies targets and supplies Maven Smart System, along with other data f...

2024-03-02
Bloomberg 4 related

A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data

On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored …

2024-02-27
Bloomberg 5 related

The CTO for US Central Command says ML algorithms developed under Project Maven helped narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg :

2021-11-04
New York Times 11 related

Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven

& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world impacts of our labor AN...

2021-09-09
Forbes

Documents show Microsoft and AWS secured contracts, worth $50M total, that appear linked to the Pentagon's Project Maven, following Google's exit

Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @iblametom and @carnage4life Tweets: Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : NEW - After Google stopped working on drone surveillance software for the DOD Project Maven in 2...

2021-03-08
NBC News 6 related

Current and former Google employees say the company's HR routinely offers mental health counseling and medical leave when staff complain about racism and sexism

and even participate in it.” Oh I feel this in my bones. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Tiffani Ashley Bell / @tiffani : I read this this morning and I had to put it down for a sec when I saw how people ...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 24 Techmeme articles mentioning Project Maven, dating back to May 2018. The biggest stories include Sources: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees that company will not renew its... and Sources: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees that company will not renew its.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Pentagon, DoD, Microsoft, and Amazon. Coverage has shifted toward developer themes and away from research.

Key Moments

2026Q1developer +100pts; research -67pts

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