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Heather Somerville
@heathersomervil
Tech and national security reporter @WSJ. Formerly @reuters @mercnews @fresnobee. Mountain climber in my spare time. heather.somerville@wsj.com. DM for Signal #
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Another scoop from the @wapo 's peerless Pentagon team @AlexHortonTX @DanLamothe @TaraCopp
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New analysis from @heathersomervil & @WSJ on the U.S. push to build critical mineral supply chains at home.
Onshoring critical mineral supply, including tungsten, is vital to national security. AMERMIN is building that capacity in Texas.
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Onshoring critical mineral supply, including tungsten, is vital to national security. AMERMIN is building that capacity in Texas.
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"In NAZA, the AI systems are the tools of death, but the real problem is the humans."
I examine the Israeli documentary and what it tells us about AI and warfare for @ForeignPolicy.
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I examine the Israeli documentary and what it tells us about AI and warfare for @ForeignPolicy.
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Such an important story from my friends @georgia_wells and @shalini today. How AI is impeding kids' ability to think, causing a decline in tests scores and grades.
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The sweeping Trump administration initiative to create a China-free supply chain for critical minerals is ...slowly...starting to work
Data from @CRUGROUP shows China losing-and the U.S. gaining-global share over key minerals and processing steps
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Data from @CRUGROUP shows China losing-and the U.S. gaining-global share over key minerals and processing steps
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Facing a three-way arms race with Russia and China, the U.S. is turning to nuclear-fusion startup @_Pacific_Fusion to turbocharge its weapons
My reporting on the new U.S. posture as the Trump administration levels up the nuclear arsenal
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My reporting on the new U.S. posture as the Trump administration levels up the nuclear arsenal
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Super important reporting from my colleagues, kudos on this story @georgia_wells and @AmrithRamkumar wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…
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The Pentagon is finally buying (some) weapons from startups.
A look at the defense spending data, a year into the Trump administration's defense reform effort, with help from @CSIS @Frontier_optic @obviant_
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A look at the defense spending data, a year into the Trump administration's defense reform effort, with help from @CSIS @Frontier_optic @obviant_
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Perhaps the U.S. Army is starting to embrace drone lessons from Ukraine:
Neros, which is mass-producing cheap FPV drones, wins $500 million Army contract wsj.com/politics/natio… via @WSJ
Neros, which is mass-producing cheap FPV drones, wins $500 million Army contract wsj.com/politics/natio… via @WSJ
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The latest push by the Trump administration on critical minerals: the Army is leasing land on bases to companies that will build and operate critical mineral processing plants there
w/ the one and only @MarcusReports
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w/ the one and only @MarcusReports
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Scoop w/ @AmrithRamkumar: Trump administration is in negotiations to fund U.S. drone startups with new debt-and-equity deals (including one company linked to Donald Trump Jr.) wsj.com/politics/natio…
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NEW: The “Busan Freeze”
How Trump scraped his own playbook on China, and the cost of playing nice with Beijing @WSJ wsj.com/world/china/tr…
How Trump scraped his own playbook on China, and the cost of playing nice with Beijing @WSJ wsj.com/world/china/tr…
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The drone having its moment in the Middle East--LUCAS--was designed by the U.S. military itself, using reverse-engineered Iranian tech.
Its success also highlights the lack of weapons from the richly funded startups supposedly building for the next war.
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Its success also highlights the lack of weapons from the richly funded startups supposedly building for the next war.
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2016 just called …
Amir Efrati@amir · Mar 13amazing timeline we are in- Travis Kalanick talking about acquiring Anthony Levandowski's self-driving technology startup and getting backing from Uber to boot
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The Pentagon Dealmaker Who Has Become Anthropic’s Nemesis
Our story on Emil Michael’s journey from raking in fortunes for Uber to becoming the Pentagon’s point person in its spectacular rupture with Anthropic
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Our story on Emil Michael’s journey from raking in fortunes for Uber to becoming the Pentagon’s point person in its spectacular rupture with Anthropic
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Winning for losing? Anthropic’s app is hitting new levels of popularity after Trump ordered the government to stop using it wsj.com/tech/ai/anthro… via @WSJ
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New: Government agencies have raised serious alarms about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot - even as the Pentagon readies to use it in classified settings wsj.com/politics/natio…
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The Newest Old Tech in Warfare: Balloons
My latest on battlefield innovation — tech from the French Revolution is making a comeback, delivering some of Ukraine’s most audacious deep strikes on Russia.
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My latest on battlefield innovation — tech from the French Revolution is making a comeback, delivering some of Ukraine’s most audacious deep strikes on Russia.
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