How Silicon Valley took over the military-industrial complex

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Semafor · collected 2026-09-18 · by Mary Lawrence Ware

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Sharon Weinberger, a veteran security journalist, explores in her book "Valley of Death" how Silicon Valley has infiltrated and transformed the military-industrial complex. The text delves into the development of technologies like drones, surveillance systems, and autonomous AI, focusing on the companies and executives involved. The Los Angeles Review of Books praised the work for its detailed examination of how government reliance on tech industry promises has led to significant implications.
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Sharon Weinberger, a veteran security journalist, released a book titled "Valley of Death" that explores how Silicon Valley has increasingly taken over and transformed the military-industrial complex. The book provides detailed insights into areas such as drones, surveillance systems, and autonomous AI agents, along with analysis of the companies and CEOs driving these technological advancements in defense technology. According to a review from the Los Angeles Review of Books, Weinberger's work critically examines how the US government has become entangled with the overhyped and ambitious projects funded by tech billionaires.

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Mary Lawrence Ware
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Veteran security journalist Weinberger chronicles Silicon Valley’s takeover of the military industrial complex “in uncomfortable detail,” with chilling insights into the intricacies of drones, surveillance systems, and autonomous AI agents, as well as the CEOs and companies behind them.
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Veteran security journalist Weinberger chronicles Silicon Valley’s takeover of the military industrial complex “in uncomfortable detail,” with chilling insights into the intricacies of drones, surveillance systems, and autonomous AI agents, as well as the CEOs and companies behind them. asserted
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This “superb new book… describes how the US government has bound itself to the hype and hubris of a heavily financed ‘arsenal of the broligarchy,’” the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote. asserted
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