AI Militarization: Top AI militarization takeaways * Silicon Valley has fully embraced the Pentagon, taking contracts they used to be hesitant to touch that will see the Defense Department develop AI for the battlefield.  * The biggest Silicon Valley winner during the early days of the second Trump administration has been Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who used to be Vice President J.D. Vance’s employer and who also spent $15 million to help Vance win his Senate seat in 2022.