US EditionFrom Silicon Valley to the Battlefield: How Big Tech Powers Modern War
UNITED STATES, JUL 20 – Tech giants secured contracts worth up to $200 million each in 2025, supplying AI and cloud services to US and Israeli militaries amid a $1 trillion planned defense upgrade.
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Palantir Gives Millions to Reagan Library as Its Defense Contracts Skyrocket
📡Share this on Bluesky and XNational security think tanks have long been funded by old-guard contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. In recent years, the Trump-tied software and data analytics firm Palantir, which is competing with those legacy contractors for federal weapons programs, has been getting in on the game.In the first half of this year, Palantir gave nearly $1.7 million to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute…
From Silicon Valley to the Battlefield: How Big Tech Powers Modern War
America’s largest technology companies have changed how wars get fought. Public records show firms like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta now work directly with the US and Israeli militaries. In 2025, the US Defense Department gave companies such as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI contracts of up to $200 million each. The government plans to […]
Technology is going to war. It’s not a metaphor. After years of avoiding being publicly linked to the military-industrial complex, the Big Tech have thrown themselves into the bush. Donald Trump’s return to the White House has been the definitive push for many companies to stop making trouble signing contracts with the Army. Beyond the technomagnates’ connection with the US president, staged in his inauguration ceremony, he wants to invest a bil…
"The Lords of Technology" (1/6). Amazon's leaders to Google through Meta attended the inauguration of the President of the United States in close ranks on 20 January 2025, despite their dissension and after having been fought for by some.
The Lords of War: Daniel Ek, Eric Schmidt, and the Militarization of Tech
Once upon a time, Spotify was pitched as the antidote to piracy — a sleek, Swedish answer to the chaos of unlicensed p2p platforms. Today, it’s run by Daniel Ek, a billionaire who also co-owns a weapons company. Meanwhile, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, long the poster child of Silicon Valley innovation, now spends his days funding AI war games and embedding himself deeper into the U.S. defense establishment and its Ukraine client state. Becau…
The protocol, supervised by Donald Trump, chose to place them in this place, just under a painting representing a historical capitulation: that of the British general John Burgoyne, in 1777, in front of George Washington, the future first president of the United States to which the president-elect sometimes compares himself. But do they only notice? For the time being, the great bosses of the tech care first of all about the cameras that shoot t…
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