The Palantir guide to stopping World War III

Last July, four high-ranking tech executives with AI ties were sworn into the US Army Reserves as lieutenant colonels, joining a new unit called Detachment 201, the Executive Innovation Corps. Turning multimillionaire executives into officers has become a potent symbol of a new era in which venture capitalists and technologists see themselves as essential to national defense.

Once proud of libertarian and antiwar instincts, many tech companies — from established firms like Google and SpaceX to military-minded startups — are now supplying the Department of Homeland Security, building AI-powered drones and autonomous weapons used in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran; Anduril recently announced a Pentagon contract that may be worth up to $20 billion.

No company has driven that shift like Palantir, the data and analytics firm cofounded by Peter Thiel and now with a market cap of about $360 billion.

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