Trump’s Golden Dome is on the clock: a trillion-dollar missile shield, three years to build it, and more than a hundred companies racing to get inside. Boeing just tapped Palantir to wire AI into its defense factories, while start-ups test tech that can track objects at 18,000 miles an hour. In today’s Bookmarked, Kala Hampton connects the rush for contracts to a deeper story Alex Karp calls the Technological Republic: how peace may depend on Silicon Valley and Washington moving in lockstep once again.
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