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Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3

2026-01-09 · 8 company · 7 thematic

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Emil Michael served as White House Fellow under Secretary Gates (2009), led global business growth at Uber during its hypergrowth phase, and now serves as Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (CTO of Department of Defense), overseeing critical technology areas, DARPA, DIU, and Office of Strategic Capital.

joe lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.

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“We were able to launch Gen AI, which is Google's Gemini for 4 million every employee, military and civilian in the department. And they never had AI on their desktop before. Now it's on every single desktop in two months. ... They were pay…”

—emil michael

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