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Bloomberg Technology broadcast a special live edition from the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington, D.C., convening CEOs, venture capitalists, and government officials at the intersection of AI, defense, and national policy — all against the backdrop of active US military operations in Iran and the Gulf.
Anduril Executive Chairman Trae Stephens opened with a firsthand account of Anduril’s anti-drone technology currently deployed in the region, detailing the cost asymmetry problem: Iran deploying low-cost drones met by US interceptors costing orders of magnitude more. He described how Anduril’s AI operating system Lattice performs kill-chain analysis to find the most cost-effective countermeasure for each threat class, and argued that the US government — not AI founders — must set clearer policy on autonomous weapons. Hadrian CEO Chris Power announced a $2.4 billion partnership with the US Navy to build an automated manufacturing facility in Alabama producing components for Virginia-class attack submarines and Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, framing it as the first major re-industrialization deal under the current administration.
Additional segments covered Arm CEO Rene Haas announcing the Amagi CPU chip with Meta and OpenAI as launch customers, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman detailing the $20 billion moon base plan, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on AI in enterprise and defense, Vinod Khosla on China hawk policy, and Founders Fund’s Delian Asparouhov on SpaceX’s data center ambitions and the economics of orbital compute. The episode serves as a comprehensive snapshot of where US technology and defense strategy intersect in early 2026.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published March 24, 2026
🏷️ Format: Livestream
