#NSA Purge Will Get Messy
... potential replacements as NSA director are Ezra Cohen and Trae Stephens

Cohen now works at #Oracle. Stephens is a general partner in Peter Thiel's #Founders Fund and is a co-founder of #Anduril
https://news.risky.biz/magas-nsa-purge-will-get-messy/?attribution_id=67f727863caafb0001282a16&attribution_type=post
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The Is Losing Faith in Intelligence Promises
administration signalled a walk back of a Biden-era EO that sought to reassure that the would only collect intelligence within Europe when strictly necessary

“The UK’s AI Borders: #Anduril’s #Autonomous #Surveillance #Towers”

by researcher Samuel Storey, hosted by the Migrants’ Rights Network

@UKLabour

“Criminalising people arriving via irregular routes has been a number one priority for successive UK governments. These silent, ever-watching towers are a physical marker of where the #Hostile #Environment begins”

https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/the-digital-hostile-environment/ai-borders-anduril-autonomous-surveillance-towers/

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
https://www.heise.de/news/Unregulierte-Tech-Tests-Thiel-Altman-und-Co-wollen-Freedom-Cities-10309769.html

Microsoft to Hand Over Army HoloLens Program IVAS to Anduril #Microsoft #Anduril #IVAS #MilitaryTech #AugmentedReality #ARHeadsets #DefenseTechnology #HoloLens #AI #SmartGlasses

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/02/13/microsoft-to-hand-over-army-hololens-program-ivas-to-anduril-xcxwbn/

#Google breaks a major promise and quietly removes pledge against AI for weapons and surveillance. In search for profitable opportunities, the tech giant removes its moral obligation to limit #AI use to civilian projects.
#news #meta #microsoft #amazon #palantir #anduril #artificialintelligence #weapons #pentagon
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13523

Bilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world – and return of Trump

Several of Bilderberg's 31-member steering committee have senior roles in the defence industry.
The billionaire former Google boss, #Eric #Schmidt, chaired the recent National Security Commission on AI,
and is now busy launching a kamikaze drone company aimed at the lucrative Ukraine market.
Meanwhile, the hugely wealthy Swedish industrialist #Marcus #Wallenberg is chair of defense manufacturer #Saab, which enjoyed a 71% boost in orders in the first nine months of 2024, largely due to the war with Russia.
The tech luminary and Donald Trump insider #Peter #Thiel founded the fast-growing robotics company #Anduril and the booming surveillance and AI giant #Palantir.
His loyal lieutenant #Alex #Karp, the CEO of Palantir, was voted on to the board of Bilderberg a few years ago.
Karp, who claims his company is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”, recently told the New York Times that the US will “very likely” soon be fighting a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran.
In some respects, the geopolitical mood today is not so different from how it was in the 1950s, when Bilderberg was born.

Top of the agenda at the first meeting in 1954 was “the attitude towards communism and the Soviet Union”,
with the “strictly confidential” conference report referring repeatedly to “the communist threat”.
Seventy years later, at the most recent summit in Madrid, the primary threat is “Russia”,
which sat grimly at the foot of the conference agenda underneath “Ukraine and the world”, and “the future of warfare”.

In 1954, the alliance was facing “the emergence ofcommunist imperialism”.
In 2024, it’s up against what Stoltenberg calls “the emerging axis of autocrats”, headed by Russia, China and North Korea.

#Stoltenberg and his successor as secretary general, #Rutte, were both at this summer’s Madrid meeting.
Joining them in the conference hall were a clutch of high-up Pentagon officials and Nato’s second most senior military leader,
US general #Chris #Cavoli, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
It was Cavoli’s second conference, and he’s not the first Saceur to attend the talks: they’ve been coming along to strategise since the mid-60s.
Bilderberg has always had close links with the military:
its founders included senior members of British and American intelligence,
and a previous Nato leader, #Lord #Carrington, chaired the group from 1990 to 1998.

Even the shamefaced resignation of its founding chair, #Prince #Bernhard of the Netherlands, had a military twist:
he was caught up in the Lockheed bribery scandal of 1976, the only year (pre-Covid) that the conference was cancelled.
And it’s telling that arguably the most dominant figure at Bilderberg in the last several decades was the grand strategist and warmonger, #Henry #Kissinger, who was lauded as a foreign policy genius by some and despised as a mass-murdering war criminal by others.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

»#Palantir and #Anduril are talking to tech companies including #SpaceX, #OpenAI, #Saronic, and #ScaleAI about forming a #consortium to bid on #Pentagoncontracts.« https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/22/palantir-and-anduril-reportedly-building-a-tech-consortium-to-bid-on-defense-contracts/?eicker.news #tech #media

Sources: Palantir & Anduril in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and others to form a consortium for US defense contracts. Announcement expected in January. Big moves ahead in defense tech! #Palantir #Anduril #OpenAI #SpaceX #DefenseTech #USDefense #TechInnovation #GovTech

#Palantir, #Anduril 2 of largest US #defense #technology companies in talks w competitors 2 form consortium jointly bid for US govt work in effort 2 disrupt #replace US #oligopoly of “prime” contractors. Includes #Musk #SpaceX #ChatGPT #OpenAI autonomous #shipbuilder #Saronic #ScaleAI “We are working together to provide a new generation of defense #contractors,” said one person involved in developing the group. #legalresearch #trump #economy #financialsystem #billionaires https://www.ft.com/content/6cfdfe2b-6872-4963-bde8-dc6c43be5093

Mein @AG_KRITIS Beitrag in der IHK Zeitschrift "Wirtschaft im Südwesten" auf Seite 9 zu:

Start-ups in der #Rüstungsindustrie „Junge, flinke Unternehmen, oft aus der IT- und #KI-Branche, mit skrupelloser Führungsspitze“ wie #Palantir und #Anduril und dem nötigen Schutz von #KRITIS in Deutschland.
https://www.wirtschaft-im-suedwesten.de/files/publications/2024_12/SBH/files/assets/common/downloads/WIS_12_2024_SBH.pdf

We can't make this stuff up: #tech companies #Palantir and #Anduril form fellowship for #AI adventures
Two tech businesses that were independently named after objects from #Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings have formed a partnership – or should that be a fellowship?
Anduril and Palantir will work together to solve "two main problems that limit the adoption of AI for #nationalsecurity purposes."
Meanwhile, #Sauron secures funding. Really.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/palantir_anduril_alliance/

Firma #OpenAI, die "KI-"Chatbot abietet, dessen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen sich bekanntermaßen von so komplexen Hacks austricksen lassen, wie den Chatbot dazu aufzufordern seine Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu ignorieren, möchte nun mit dem Rüstungs-StartUp "#Anduril" zusammenarbeiten.

Ziel? "assess drone threats more quickly and accurately"
Was soll schon schief gehen.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anduril-defense/

The push for artificial intelligence in defense weapons is getting a boost from OpenAI’s new partnership with Anduril Industries, less than a year after the company's policies did not allow usage of its models for “[a]ctivity that has high risk of physical harm” such as “military and warfare.” Read more at @quartz. #AI #OpenAI #Drone #Anduril #Pentagon #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/KhkLKg

Das war's dann:
#OpenAI gibt bekannt, dass seine Technologie vom #Militär auf dem Schlachtfeld eingesetzt werden wird. Nach einer Partnerschaft mit #Anduril dürfte auch das Tabu „Waffenentwicklung“ oder „Militär und Kriegsführung“ Geschichte sein.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107897/openais-new-defense-contract-completes-its-military-pivot/amp/

Drone Wingmen, or #CCAs (Collaborative combat aircraft)
are autonomous drones intended to fly alongside F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and the future Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, and perform missions for them such as striking enemy targets, conducting surveillance, or jamming enemy signals.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall wants CCAs to cost a “fraction” of an F-35, which can run from $80 million to $100 million.

Andrew Hunter, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, said at Defense One’s State of Defense Business forum that he recently approved the purchase of more CCAs for the service’s experimental operations unit.

That unit, which the Air Force is now standing up, is in charge of developing tactics and procedures for how CCAs would be used in a real-world operational scenario.

The Air Force in April awarded contracts to General Atomics and #Anduril Industries to keep designing, building and testing their own versions of the first batch of CCAs, and subsequent, more advanced iterations of CCAs are planned to follow.

But before CCAs can fully be integrated into squadrons, the Air Force has to develop concepts of operations for them, or exactly how they would be controlled and operate in battle.

The experimental operations unit is working with Australia’s military
— which has been working on a similar program with #Boeing’s #GhostBat for several years
— and other international partners, Hunter said.

As the experimental operations unit sets those tactics, Hunter said, it’s important to have actual CCAs to experiment with.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/11/15/air-force-buying-more-drone-wingmen-to-develop-operational-tactics/