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May
Earlier this month, the military and intelligence-tied data monger Palantir — alongside big tech giants Google and Microsoft — sponsored DC's inaugural "AI Expo for National Competitiveness."Which, judging by The Guardian's summary of the event, sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.The relationship between Silicon Valley and the US military has experienced a bit of a rekindling in recent years — a renaissance in large part pushed forward in by the collision of advancements in AI, robotics, various autonomous weapons and vehicles, and surveillance. If anything, Palantir's recent event was a celebration of this…