Elon Musk’s SpaceX Enters Pentagon’s $100 Million Drone Technology Race

TLDR Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI join Pentagon’s competition for autonomous drone technology Six-month contest offers $100 million to develop voice-command drone systems Competition launched January 2026, requires technology to control multiple drones simultaneously Musk signed 2015 letter opposing autonomous weapons before entering this contest SpaceX merged with xAI before planned IPO and competition announcement [...]

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