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Palmer Luckey

American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift

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  • 3h ago

    Anduril and US Navy commit $6.6 billion to build submarine parts shipyard in Maryland

    Defense startup Anduril Industries will invest $3.7 billion alongside a $2.9 billion US Navy contract to construct the Arsenal-2 facility at Sparrows Point for Virginia-class nuclear submarines.

  • 5d ago

    Donald Trump queried Elon Musk's Grok chatbot before January raid on Nicolás Maduro

    A December 2025 White House meeting saw Donald Trump consult xAI's chatbot Grok on Venezuelan public opinion roughly one month before United States forces detained Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.

  • 6d ago

    Pentagon names Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to lead 120-day future warfare project

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched Project Meridian at Quantico, assigning tech executives Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to review autonomous weapons, AI, and lunar defense over 120 days.

  • 6d ago

    Hegseth announces 20% cut to US generals and new Autonomous Warfare Command

    Speaking at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth outlined plans to eliminate 20% of general and admiral positions by January 2027 and establish a four-star autonomous systems command.

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Germany arrests its former spy chief

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The day mixed hard-security scares with political jolts and one very large media bet. Governments tried to show control, but markets, courts and drones kept reminding them that control is now the scarce commodity.

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  • French student protests escalate

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Climate: from mitigation to adaptation

EU opens first structured geoengineering research tender and WMO revises summer heat mortality to 45,000, both noteworthy but not frame-shifting.

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