After years of pushing sensationalized claims about foreign threats, Silicon Valley’s military start-ups are set to score billions in funding for drones and AI-powered weapons in the nearly $1 trillion defense budget.

Silicon Valley’s military start-ups are closing in on a massive Pentagon payday after spending years pushing sensational, unverified claims of foreign threats. These start-ups, which manufacture cutting-edge lethal and surveillance technology, are eyeing the billions set aside for artificial intelligence (AI) and drone investments in the Pentagon’s new, record-breaking nearly one-trillion-dollar budget.

To boost the autonomous weapons industry, the House and Senate have passed bills demanding that the Pentagon double down on AI, integrating it into routine tasks and using i

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