{"id":488410,"date":"2026-02-18T18:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:18:21","slug":"spacex-and-xai-in-race-to-develop-voice-controlled-drone-swarming-technology-for-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488410\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX and xAI in race to develop voice-controlled drone swarming technology for US military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The entry of the two Musk companies \u2013 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/north-america\/genius-or-showman-how-musk-built-a-1-8trn-colossus-20260204-p5nzfk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he announced in early February would merge<\/a> \u2013 into a new frontier of AI-enabled weapons development marks a new and potentially controversial departure for Musk. While SpaceX is a well-established defence contractor and Musk is enthusiastic about advancing AI, he is among those who have also previously argued against making \u201cnew tools for killing people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-488410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}