The New Military Industry Complex w/ Sam Biddle
06 05 25
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The New Military Industry Complex
Sam Biddle
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Sam Biddle to discuss how Silicon Valley is shamelessly courting government military contracts, using tactics to silence employee dissent and normalize the situation to the public, and what it all means for the future of military geopolitics.
Guest
Sam Biddle is a senior technology reporter at The Intercept.
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Links
- Sam wrote about how defense tech companies sought to capitalize on Trump’s return to office and OpenAI’s embrace of nationalism.
- Trae Stephens was interviewed by Wired last year, where he made his comments about the military industrial complex.
- Meta and Anduril teamed up to provide VR and AR devices to the US military.
- Trump’s US Army appointee won’t give up his Anduril stock.
- Palantir’s CEO wrote the Defense Reformation report and Andreessen Horowitz launched an American Dynamism division.