Palmer Luckey, 31, founder of Anduril Industries, stands in front of the DiveLD, an autonomous underwater drone, at the company’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif. Anduril recently won a contract from the U.S. Navy to build 200 of the drones per year.
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Palmer Luckey, 31, founder of Anduril Industries, stands in front of the DiveLD, an autonomous underwater drone, at the company’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif. Anduril recently won a contract from the U.S. Navy to build 200 of the drones per year.
Philip Chan (NPR/NPR)
Palmer Luckey started his first tech company as a teenager: Oculus, a gaming virtual reality headset, which he sold to Facebook for $2 billion soon after.
Now Luckey, 31, runs a new company called Anduril that makes AI weapons, which the Pentagon buys, keeps some for itself, and sends the rest to Ukraine.
The weapons could help Ukraine counter Russia.
Ukraine needs more weapons, and better weapons, to fight Russia. Could AI weapons built by a billionaire tech entrepreneur’s company be the answer?
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This episode was produced by Catherine Fink and Jonaki Mehta. Edited by Courtney Dorning and Andrew Sussman. Executive producer is Sami Yenigan.
