The AI Manhattan Project

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Citations and Further Reading:

Silicon Valley’s re-militarization
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html
https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ler-ares-industries-building-low-cost-cruise-missiles

Open Source AI Can Help America Lead in AI and Strengthen Global Security

OpenAI’s Pitch to Trump: Rank the World on U.S. Tech Interests


https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-partners-with-openai-to-advance-u-s-artificial-intelligence-leadership-and-protect-u-s/
https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-us-ai-action-plan/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/palantir-lands-10-billion-army-software-and-data-contract.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/technology/anduril-funding-valuation-28-billion.html
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/04/05/israeli-army-uses-ai-to-identify-tens-of-thousands-of-targets-in-gaza_6667454_4.html
https://www.palantir.com/assets/xrfr7uokpv1b/3MuEeA8MLbLDAyxixTsiIe/9e4a11a7fb058554a8a1e3cd83e31c09/C134184_finaleprint.pdf

Fool of a Took: Palantir’s Fascism on Campus


https://www.pogo.org/investigations/stephen-miller-conflicts-of-interest
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/27/google-project-nimbus-israel
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-04/openai-partners-with-anduril-to-build-ai-for-anti-drone-systems
https://fortune.com/2024/08/25/y-combinator-ares-industries-first-weapons-bet-us-china-war-spacex/

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant


https://www.ft.com/content/64a2345e-3961-4d5d-ae04-82d933fa5a2c https://www.business-humanrights.org/de/latest-news/palantir-spacex-allegedly-complicit-in-war-crimes-amid-israels-war-in-gaza/
https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/18/palantir-woos-elite-college-students-and-theyre-feeling-the-vibe/
https://openai.com/global-affairs/introducing-openai-for-government/
https://www.trtworld.com/article/b88610f846ea
https://www.setav.org/en/palantirs-all-seeing-eye-domestic-surveillance-and-the-price-of-security
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5372776/palantir-tech-contracts-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/05/meta-allows-national-security-defense-contractors-use-llama-ai
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/meta-exec-us-army-enlistment
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/21/israeli-data-shows-83-percent-of-gaza-war-dead-are-civilians-report

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