US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201 (www.army.mil)

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The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well RIP US Democracy, good run.

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025

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