Palmer Luckey / Anduril
Autonomous Weapons
Founded Anduril Industries (named after Tolkien's "Flame of the West"). Autonomous weapons systems, AI-powered border surveillance, military drones. Funded by Thiel. Lattice OS = sensor fusion platform integrating autonomous systems. The kinetic enforcement layer of the law-and-policy track — when Palantir identifies the target, Anduril's autonomous systems prosecute it. Lavender AI (Israel, Gaza 2024) is the proof of concept: autonomous targeting from metadata to kill decision.
Apr 1 live update: Oracle cuts thousands of jobs while ramping AI spending — human labor→AI substitution at enterprise scale. Anthropic's Claude Code source leaked (WSJ), testing 'Mythos' described as 'most capable.' OpenAI closes record $122 billion round, opens to individual investors.
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