The AI military complex: Which are the main companies in it?
And now, more soldiers are fighting wars through a screen.The military AI industry now encompasses everything from cloud computing to autonomous drones and decision-making software. Advertisement AI defence procurements are not new. The Pentagon’s 2014 “Third Offset Strategy” bet explicitly on AI defining the next generation of warfare, but the pace appears to be picking up as global military expenditure climbed to $2.88 trillion in 2025, with governments pouring record sums into defence budgets.
- ▪And now, more soldiers are fighting wars through a screen.The military AI industry now encompasses everything from cloud computing to autonomous drones and decision-making software.
- ▪Advertisement AI defence procurements are not new.
- ▪The Pentagon’s 2014 “Third Offset Strategy” bet explicitly on AI defining the next generation of warfare, but the pace appears to be picking up as global military expenditure climbed to $2.88 trillion in 2025, with governments pouring recor
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EXPLAINERNews|InteractiveThe AI military complex: Which are the main companies in it?Billions of dollars is flowing into a handful of companies now leading the AI transformation of militaries.ListenListen (7 mins)SaveClick here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoSignage for Palantir seen during the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition at the Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2024 [Nathan Howard/Reuters]Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026For centuries, fighting wars meant deploying hardware such as tanks, aircraft, artillery and weapons, built by a handful of prime contractors under long-term government programmes.It also meant putting boots on the…
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