Peter Rileyhttps://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/31/project_maven_manson_bloomberg_ai_warfare
#Ai #democracynow #Killchain #Maven #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Palantir #Surveillance
The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets
The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned the accuracy of the Maven system, the artificial intelligence system used by the military to speed up the process of identifying targets. “Imagine Google Earth for war, a map of war with white dots, infused with information like elevation, coordinate, what is precisely there, whether it’s friendly or foe,” says Katrina Manson, a reporter for Bloomberg News and author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. The Pentagon launched Project Maven in 2017. Google was an initial partner, but the company pulled out after over 3,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the work. The big data firm Palantir then took over the project and has run it ever since.
From board-room to battlefield, lethal legal market forces farces ? https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/pentagon-tested-openai-models-via-microsoft-despite-military-ban
#Ai #Capitalism #Microsoft #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #OpenAi #Pentagon
Don Hawkins - W7DAH@Nonilex #republicans ain’t exactly the party of #fiscalresponsibility now are they? Mostly #Oligarchs with their hands in the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex cookie jar. #Eisenhower warned is about these a-holes.
7 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/google-ceo-drones-ai-war-surveillance
(Note: Employee revolts at #Microsoft, #Amazon and #Google in the late 2010s helped kept those Capitalists out of the military market. Google ended up relinquishing the #Maven contract in 2018, with #Palantir war profiteering in 2024. )
Source: “Kill-Chain”
https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain
#Ai #Claude #Google #Iran
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Minab #techWorkers
SaturniidaeThe #SPUSA is having webinar next month about #militaryindustrialcomplex and how they take over local #American #communities to build weapons, and how to push back.
#socialism #socialist #palestine #IranWar #venezuela #cuba #war #warcrimes #SocialistPartyUSA #TrumpWar #trump #genocidejoe #globalnews #globalaffairs #internationalrelations #InternationalStudies #marxism #marxist #Debs
lumpenproletariatPart of the underground group’s communiqué reads:
“On 20th March 2026, the Earthquake Faction struck the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe. In Pardubice, Czech Republic, Elbit Systems’ “Centre of Excellence” was newly built in collaboration with LPP, to service the global expansion of Israel’s biggest weapons producer.
Whilst the development, production and training center was empty, The Earthquake Faction intervened to destroy its equipment and set the factory ablaze. No one was harmed.
The site is used to develop weaponry used by the Zionist entity to massacre people daily in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across West Asia.
The Earthquake Faction is an internationalist underground network that targets key sites critical to the Zionist entity. We aim to destroy all limbs of empire from within, by any means effective.”
The Earthquake Faction’s full communiqué and more videos/images are on their website: https://earthquakefaction.net
The group’s action was also posted on Telegram at t.me/earthquake_faction
Photograph of #Palestine solidarity action from the weekend
#United struggle #CombatWombat https://www.instagram.com/unitedstrugglecombatwombat/?
#WACA (Whistleblowers, Activists & Communities Alliance)
https://www.instagram.com/aka.waca
Claire McNab@simon_brooke You are right that these new military technologies are well-suited to radically distributed production. So long as spidery supply chains function somehow, drones can still be built in quantity.
But I'm not so sure that this is bad news for the USA. The #MilitaryIndustrialComplex loves a #ForeverWar, however much the #MAGA base hates it.
A few decades firing missiles at Iranian mountainsides will be great for business.
Why #Palantir cofounder and CEO #AlexKarp views working with Western militaries not just as a business opportunity, but as a “higher calling”
(Transcript)
https://slate.com/transcripts/NnpST2pTR0pYS2NOVXRNa1ZObWRmTzdpcEgxY3ZkVXVyMXFIOTRNNFBMUT0=
Audio
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2026/03/why-alex-karp-wants-militaries-to-use-palantir
Karp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp
Palantir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
Thiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
#Capitalism #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #PayPal #Surveillance #PeterThiel