California Edition

Altman, Amodei and Luckey Thrust California Into the Frontier of Warfare

In the span of a week, as the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran, three Californian billionaires found fortune and strife at the intersection of technology and warfare.

A model of Anduril's YFQ-44, an unmanned combat aerial vehicle, at Anduril's headquarters in Costa Mesa.

Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg

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The future of war is being forged in California, coated in Silicon Valley jargon.