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Jonathan Guyer

@mideastxmidwest
14 posts
2024-05-18
“The peace activists are war activists,” Palantir's CEO told a room of government officials, military contractors, and tech bros. “We are the peace activists.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2024-05-18 View on X
The Guardian

The Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness featured VR headsets for soldiers, a map tool that can “nominate targets of interest”, and more

America's military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone Mastodon: @j2bryson@mastodon.social , @Mr...

2024-01-02
50 defense and national security leaders have gone into venture capital, as the industry has injected $125 billion into startups focused on military technologies, according to the Times. They operate in a gray zone. Almost none are registered lobbyists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

The firms investing big in military tech include WestExec Advisors, which Tony Blinken co-founded. WestExec has invested in AI and satellites. Is this the right path to out-innovate China? Or is it just the latest iteration of Washington's revolving door? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

How it's legal to work as a corporate consultant and a Pentagon adviser at the same time (April, 2023) https://www.vox.com/...
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists The Times cites Sen. Elizabeth Warren's letter to the Pentagon on the connections between private firms and the DOD, which came in response to my report on the newly formed Office of Strategic Capital. [image]
2024-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril

Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

2023-12-25
How Rebellion Defense, the $1 billion military AI startup hyped by Silicon Valley, wound up in a nosedive @Forbes confirms my reporting about Rebellion's internal disfunction, adding details about its difficulties in nailing down government contracts. https://www.forbes.com/... [image]
2023-12-25 View on X
Forbes

How AI defense tech developer Rebellion Defense is struggling to survive after failing to win a US DOD contract, losing its founders, and shuttering its UK arm

Forbes : X: @drleostrauss , @mideastxmidwest , and @davidjeans2 X: @drleostrauss : Cautionary SV-DoD tale. $1 billion 🇺🇸 SV defense sector AI start up. Chased DoD contracts withou...

2023-08-29
“Scale AI has paid workers at extremely low rates, routinely delayed or withheld payments and provided few channels for workers to seek recourse...” So why is the Biden White House farming out its “Responsible AI Innovation” effort to Scale AI? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-08-29 View on X
Washington Post

Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support …

2023-02-14
“It's difficult to point to any other CEO with the same level of influence in the national security tech sector.” https://www.wired.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
Wired

A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component

The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.

2022-12-26
CISA was supposed to be the answer to the government's cyber problems. The coverage of it—and director Jen Easterly, a former Morgan Stanley exec—has been glowing. But this report details an agency hampered by internal divisions and muddled priorities. https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
2022-12-26 View on X
CyberScoop

Current and former CISA employees and sources detail an agency that lacks a clearly defined strategic direction and whose leadership seems more focused on PR

and director Jen Easterly, a former Morgan Stanley exec—has been glowing. But this report details an agency hampered by internal divisions and muddled priorities. https://www.cyber...

2022-12-25
CISA was supposed to be the answer to the government's cyber problems. The coverage of it—and director Jen Easterly, a former Morgan Stanley exec—has been glowing. But this report details an agency hampered by internal divisions and muddled priorities. https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
2022-12-25 View on X
CyberScoop

Current and former CISA employees and sources detail an agency lacking a clearly defined strategic direction and whose leadership is often focused on its PR

and director Jen Easterly, a former Morgan Stanley exec—has been glowing. But this report details an agency hampered by internal divisions and muddled priorities. https://www.cyber...

2022-12-22
Cyber Director Chris Inglis is leaving the White House. He's one of 30 senior members of the Biden administration who have come from (or gone to) WestExec Advisors, the ultra-connected DC consulting firm co-founded by Tony Blinken. One wonders where Inglis will land next! https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-22 View on X
CNN

Sources: after serving in the White House since July 2021, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis is expected to step down and retire in the next two months

Sean Lyngaas / CNN :

2022-10-13
From the minds of NSO Group comes a new revolving-door entrant into the word of cyber-defense: Dream Security. https://en.globes.co.il/...
2022-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Dream Security, a cybersecurity startup co-founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, has raised $20M

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg :

2022-01-09
Revealing CV item from Anne Neuberger, Biden's cyber director: “The Snowden leak left the NSA to deal with angry and embarrassed corporations it depended on for intelligence operations, and Neuberger was central to the agency's efforts to clean things up.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-01-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Profile of Anne Neuberger, the NSC deputy advisor at the center of increasing tension over control between US agencies handling cybersecurity

Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration's Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, organized a virtual summit on ransomware for Oct. 13, 2021. Tweets: @...

2021-07-14
Corporate consultant Sally Donnelly had been called the fairy godmother of Big Tech. She advised Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during the transition. New details of her “potentially unethical conduct” in the hasty $10 billion cloud contract known as JEDI https://theintercept.com/...
2021-07-14 View on X
New York Times

Two GOP lawmakers are pointing to previously unreleased emails to allege that Amazon unfairly used its influence in competing for Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract

Newly released emails show particular praise of Amazon among top Defense Department officials during the Trump administration …