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Anduril, founded by Palmer Luckey, is developing AI-powered drones for the military.Anduril says Trump’s promise to cut bureaucracy could make defense contracts simpler.Others in the defense industry are less optimistic.Tech billionaire Palmer Luckey’s bet on the defense industry is paying off at Anduril, the drone-making company he founded. Now, the…
Prosecutors sought to vacate remaining deadlines in Donald Trump’s election-interference case.Special counsel Jack Smith cited the “unprecedented circumstance” of Trump’s reelection.Justice Department policy says a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office. A federal judge on Friday granted special counsel Jack Smith’s request to vacate all pending deadlines for…
By Pratyush Thakur and Mike Stone (Reuters) -RTX on Tuesday raised its 2024 adjusted profit and sales forecasts for the second time, citing strong demand for aircraft repairs and defense systems, and reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings. Shares of the Arlington, Virginia-based company were up 2.1% before the opening bell. The…
Russia is amassing artillery faster than Ukraine can destroy it.Ukraine must reduce this shelling or risk continuing to fall back.Russian artillery depends on a complex supply chain vulnerable to sanctions, defense experts say. For centuries, a key to battlefield victory has been destroying the enemy’s artillery. Left unmolested, the big…
A group of U.S. lawmakers have asked the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense (DoD) to investigate McKinsey’s failure to disclose its work with China’s government, saying that the consulting giant might face conflicts of interest that require reviewing. In letters dated Oct 17 but which were made…
People are posting statements on social media forbidding Meta from using their data to train AI.Even celebrities like Tom Brady and Cat Power have joined the “Goodbye Meta AI” movement.It won’t work. But people really do have anxiety over AI — and Meta should listen. Can the “Goodbye Meta AI”…
By Joe Brock, David Shepardson and Tim Hepher (Reuters) – Boeing (NYSE:) said on Friday the head of its troubled space and defense unit is leaving the company immediately, in the first management change under new CEO Kelly Ortberg. Ortberg who took over in August said Ted Colbert would be…
Sean Combs debuted his sex-trafficking defense this week, and it’s a no-holds-barred attack on his accuser, R&B singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, that boils down to this: She wanted it.”Is it sex trafficking?” attorney Marc Agnifilo asked a federal judge in Manhattan. “No,” the lawyer said, answering his own question. “Not…
Defense tech startup Anduril announced a new range of cruise missiles on Thursday that it says can be mass-produced at low cost to help the US in a near-peer war.Anduril said the key to its new Barracuda missile is its flexibility, through a modular system that can make the missile…
Before Ukraine received its first batch of F-16s a few weeks ago, one of the big questions surrounding the transfer was how Kyiv would make use of its small inventory of NATO-provided fighter jets.When the jets arrived in Ukraine, initial imagery of the F-16s and their missile loadouts suggested Kyiv…
