Palmer Luckey, 31, founding father of Anduril Industries, stands in entrance of the Dive-LD, an autonomous underwater drone at firm headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif. Anduril just lately received a U.S. Navy contract to construct 200 of them yearly.
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Palmer Luckey, 31, founding father of Anduril Industries, stands in entrance of the Dive-LD, an autonomous underwater drone at firm headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif. Anduril just lately received a U.S. Navy contract to construct 200 of them yearly.
Philip Cheung for NPR/NPR
Palmer Luckey launched his first tech firm as a teen. That was Oculus, the digital actuality headset for gaming. Quickly after, he bought it to Fb for $2 billion.
Now 31, Luckey has a brand new firm known as Anduril that is making Synthetic Intelligence weapons. The Pentagon is shopping for them – protecting some for itself and sending others to Ukraine.
The weapons could possibly be instrumental in serving to Ukraine stand as much as Russia.
Ukraine wants extra weapons – and higher weapons – to battle towards Russia. May AI weapons made by a billionaire tech entrepreneur’s firm maintain the reply?
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