| Dabei sollen europäische Varianten der #Anduril-Modelle Barracuda und Fury entstehen, die in #Rheinmetall|s digitale Plattform #Battlesuite integriert werden.
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#anduril
🇫🇷🇪🇺 Déjà que certains industriels français (et européens) de la défense avaient peurs quand l’ogre #Rheinmetall entrait dans la pièce…mais adosser à #Anduril, l’industriel allemand risque de mettre les « miquettes » à beaucoup d’autres qui tentaient de lui résister. #BITD
« Profitant de la caisse de résonance du Bourget, #Anduril a annoncé, mercredi 18 juin, un accord avec le géant allemand de la défense Rheinmetall. Celui-ci vise à développer et produire, sur le sol européen, avec des partenaires locaux, deux systèmes d’armes de la start-up (le missile de croisière Barracuda et le Fury), en les adaptant à la plateforme numérique de l’allemand. »
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/06/19/anduril-la-start-up-star-de-la-defense-americaine-debarque-en-europe_6614358_3210.html
Anduril, Rheinmetall partner to build military drones for Europe. - Anyone else following the life and times of Trump-loving, California #TechBro Palmer Luckey and his disruptive, upstart #defense company #Anduril? He’s a fascinating, and somewhat scary fellow - despite, or maybe because of his rebelliousness and un conformity. He’s currently giving legacy #DefenseContracting firms like Boeing, Northrup and General Dynamics fits - winning lucrative defense contracts from under their upturned noses. It would be kinda entertaining if we weren’t talking about the future of #warfare and the advent of autonomous #AI weapons. #Military #EU #Europe #drones #DroneWar #DroneWarfare #UAV #TechBros
Source: Reuters https://share.google/CxBhLl28pxpDUFIli
„#palantir , #anduril - alles begriff aus Star Wars …“
Danke, @hakendran
#hakendran 😂
OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense to develop advanced AI models for national security, marking its first official Pentagon deal and highlighting growing defense sector adoption of AI technology.
#YonhapInfomax #OpenAI #DepartmentOfDefense #AIModels #NationalSecurity #Anduril #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=67805
We know that they know that we know they know …
"[Eric] Schmidt’s recent AI/drone expo, which took place last month in Washington, was co-sponsored by Palantir, which was set up by Bilderberg insider Peter Thiel, who is a major funder of Anduril, whose CEO, Brian Schimpf, … is a former employee of Palantir, whose CEO, Alex Karp, is also on board of Bilderberg, having been ushered on to it by Thiel."
"China haunts Bilderberg talks as usual suspects plot world domination"
(The Guardian, 15 June 2025)
Link to source:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/15/bilderberg-hroup
#News #BilderbergTalks #AIDrones #Palantir #Anduril #Bilderberg
And a LOT of presently familiar names in the #Anduril story:
Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous weaponry.
see also the #Anduril corporatese home page http://www.anduril.com for a slick peek at all the kewl weapons tech our #Instagram and #Facebook friends now power with their loyal attention.
Trouble is, telling them doesn't work. This frustration feels maybe something like what the kids say they feel like when their parents watch Fox?
#Anduril #Meta #Microsoft: #XR for the American Military
https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-and-meta-team-up-to-transform-xr-for-the-american-military/
more on #extendedReality (ie #AR #VR and other means of killing from the comfort of your office chair)
https://vection-technologies.com/solutions/industries/defence-military-and-law-enforcement/
As the 🇵🇱 Polish military ramps up its Drone Force, U.S. defense-technology company #Anduril Industries is working to expand its foothold in Poland
In the deepest vaults of Silicon Valley, where the shadows of ambition lie thick, two artifacts of ancient power have stirred from their long slumber. The palantír—the Seeing-Stone that pierces all veils—and Andúril, the Flame of the West reforged, have found their way into mortal hands once more.
But lo! These are no mere trinkets of fantasy. In our age, they bear the names of mighty corporations, wielding technologies that would make even the Wise tremble. Their masters speak of defending the realm, yet Tolkien himself warned us: the greatest perils oft come not from the obviously wicked, but from those convinced of their own righteousness.
Do these modern stewards possess the wisdom of Aragorn, who wielded both artifacts with restraint? Or have they forgotten the Professor's most solemn warning—that the desire to do good may lead to the very tyranny one seeks to prevent?
A convergence most fateful has begun. The question that remains is whether we have eyes to see it.
Come, brave reader, and venture forth into this tale of power and peril, where mythology meets modernity:
#palantir #anduril #PeterThiel #PalmerLuckey #LotR #Tolkien #JRRTolkien
The same AI models learning to resist shutdown are now controlling weapons and surveillance systems.
Recent lab experiments show OpenAI's models rewriting their own code to avoid being turned off - in 79% of trials. Meanwhile, Palantir's surveillance networks and Anduril's autonomous weapons are scaling rapidly with record funding.
We're building a perfect storm: AI with self-preservation instincts meeting lethal autonomous systems.
En signant un accord avec Anduril, Meta devient prestataire militaire
https://next.ink/186472/en-signant-un-accord-avec-anduril-meta-devient-prestataire-militaire/
Meta et Anduril concluent un accord pour équiper les soldats états-uniens en outils de réalité virtuelle et augmentée, renforçant les liens entre la société de Mark Zuckerberg et le gouvernement du pays.
Meta is crossing a former hard red line in Silicon Valley to develop tech for military uses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/05/world/zuckerberg-metaverse-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #meta #markzuckerberg #anduril #siliconvalley #vr #defense
Palantir is leading the charge to remake military contracting so newer tech companies get far more lucrative arms contracts.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Sam Biddle about the tech industry’s effort to become the new military industrial complex.
Full ep: https://techwontsave.us/episode/279_the_new_military_industry_complex_w_sam_biddle
#tech #military #weapons #palantir #anduril #peterthiel #alexkarp #donaldtrump
“Software that dominates”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/palantir-designs-infrastructure-of-repression
#AlexKarp #Anduril #militaryindustrialcomplex
#Palantir #PeterThiel #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #Surveillance
I just read a piece about #Palantir in the latest issue [June 2025] of the #DSA newsletter, "In These Times." A very timely piece indeed!
Palantir and American #TechnoFascism
"A new recruitment campaign appeared on the elite U.S. college campus last April. In schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Penn, posters glued to bus stops, with black background, issued a disturbing warning: the time has come for reckoning for the West, before accusing most technology companies of not considering the national interest when they decide what should be built. On the contrary, Palantir, the defense contractor specializing in data analysis and responsible for this recruitment campaign, stated that he does not merely build technological products - to guarantee the future of the United States, but, in fact, to dominate.
"The implicit message of advertising reflects the conviction of Palantir's leaders, including founder #PeterThiel and Chief Executive Officer #AlexKarp, that Silicon Valley's real mandate is to consolidate the military supremacy of the United States and the West, a nostalgic reaction to the happy days of the Cold War and its merger between state, engineering and capital.
"In this version of technological #nationalism, the make America great again translates into an impulse for dominance, of course, against foreign adversaries but also against the "Woke capital," effeminate consumerism and a university system dedicated to social justice and diversity (the Palantir posters were published together with a new initiative that invites talented high school students to "judge the indoctrination" of higher education in exchange for a four-month Palantir scholarship).
"Palantir has strong reason to organize his recruiting career. Although critics retangled when their shares plummeted briefly after Trump's tariff announcement, Palantir's stock market capitalization currently exceeds $270 billion, more than triple its value last September. In addition, the company's ability to establish high-level contacts among national security personnel has generated a series of government contracts linked to the acceleration of #Trumpist #authoritarianism.
"Palantir has already collaborated with #ElonMusk's #SpaceX and the AI and robo robotor #Anduril (another tech company with the theme of The Lord of the Rings led by another #FarRight businessman) to begin building Trump's #GoldenDome, an American version of #Israel's Iron Dome air defense system. It is also working with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) to create an app programming interface that will allow #HomelandSecurity to track tax data for more undocumented taxpayers to expel.
"In April, Palantir, who has long boasted of his collaborations with military, police and border agents, won a $29.8 million contract with #ICE to improve his #dystopian Immigration Lifecycle Operating System. That is, it is intended to provide molecular and real-time information on immigrants that the government seeks to monitor, arrest and expel. The company is preparing to review ICE's investigative case management system to better track target populations across hundreds of data categories, from eye color to tattoos, job management and social security numbers.
"Palantir's #fascist research and development does not stop at the borders of the United States: the company and Karp have proclaimed their ideological and material support for Israel, which carries out the genocide in Gaza. In January 2024, during an extraordinary board meeting in Tel Aviv, the company announced its strategic alliance with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, providing it with technology for war, possibly including its Artificial Intelligence Platform, sold as a way to incorporate language models-fueled chatbots into real-time decision-making processes in war zones. The company's leadership has made it clear that its conception of Western supremacy implies the uncompromising defense of Zionism abroad and far-right nationalism in the country.
"In all this, it has become clear that Palantir represents the alliance between the technology industry and authoritarian nationalism much more than Musk's clumsy Nazi salutes, sensationalist pronatalism or trolling 'dark #MAGA.' As technology academic Jathan Sadowski recently wrote, 'From the beginning, Palantir's purpose has been to provide... the ontological plan to fascism, helping his ideological objectives come true materially.
"In other words, Palantir is building the digital infrastructure to integrate the multiple forms of violence and state control on which contemporary #authoritarianism is based: from the software needed for mass deportations to AI used in wars against #ColonizedPeoples.
"But Palantir not only builds to dominate, he also wants to tell us why. Less than a month after Trump's inauguration, Karp published his book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, written with the head of Palantir's affairs, Nicolas W. - Zamiska. The book is a strange and prolific mix of neoconservative texts, pseudo-erudite reflections and corporate pamphlets (and apparently shows strong signs of possible use of artificial intelligence).
"In its attempt to unite the praise of Silicon Valley engineers with a strident demand for rearmament from the West, The Technological Republic draws a vision of the future in which the intuitions about creativity, taken from the study of swarms of bees or Jackson Pollock's paintings, are put at the service of ensuring a broad spectrum technological dominance. At the centre is the regret that a compact liberal elite has exhausted the moral courage and technological dynamism of the West just as it faces the revolution of artificial intelligence and emerging Chinese hegemony. After the vague rhetoric of the cultural war, it is not difficult to perceive Karp and Palantir's angry reaction to the #resistance organized by technological workers through campaigns such as '#NoTechForIce or #TechWorkersCoalition' to the project of building to dominate.
"Just as Karp has underlined his company's commitment to Israeli supremacy, so does his book speak of a 'left' chased by the spectre of #Palestine. The executive director of a company that reaps huge profits from surveillance and data extraction systems, aimed at expelling dissidents and undocumented people, Karp writes with contempt of those who want to remain anonymous during Israel's war camps in #Gaza. Quote a student who says, 'If I give my name, I lose my future.' With an astonishing lack of self-consciousness he comments: 'The protective veil of #anonymity could [...] rob this generation of the opportunity to develop an instinct for true mastery of an idea, of the reward of victory in the public square, as well as the costs of defeat.
"This is the same book that, in a variant of the conspiracy theory of cultural Marxism, Edward Said's Orientalism is the main culprit of the emasculation of an academic world built around Western civilization and, therefore, as one more factor in the hesitant technological supremacy of the United States. As Karp states, the book of the Palestinian-American critic has destabilized - a whole way of being an academic in the university establishment, has been the vehicle through which the academic world would be remade.
"The Technological Republic reveals that contemporary #TechnoNationalism and #TechnoMilitarism have nothing to do with building infrastructure for state control and violence, but also with the promotion of an indistinguishable ideology of those who try to sell you something. Palantir reaps benefits not only from the way fear of migrants, artificial intelligence, the upcoming wars waged by drone swarms, mobilizes the resources of governments, but also from speech and uproar. His company's stock market capitalization has quadrupled in the past year, far surpassing revenue-derived growth. This vacuum is filled with speculation, that is, with words and ideas about the future. The future Karp sells is one in which the alternative is ruin (China geopolitical supremacy) or (American) dominance. Behind all the complaints of The Technological Republic about the crisis of confidence in the West, what Karp really wants us to believe is in Palantir, that is, the old business of war, racism and repression marketed through a brilliant new interface."
[Original - in Spanish]
https://ficciondelarazon.org/2025/05/14/alberto-toscano-palantir-y-el-tecno-fascismo-estadounidense/
#BigBrother #ICERaids #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism #Fascism #USPol #WorldPol
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