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"Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its subsidiary xAI are joining a secretive US Department of Defense competition centered on a voice command and control tool that could deploy multiple autonomous systems. The project, launched in January with a $100-million budget and a six-month timeline, requires software that could coordinate unmanned swarming operations across the air and at sea, according to Bloomberg. The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and its new Defense Autonomous Warfare Group under the US Special Operations Command are overseeing the competition. The contest will unfold in phases, starting with software development before advancing to live trials. SpaceX and xAI’s participation marks an expansion of Musk’s defense work into artificial intelligence-enabled weapons software, as th...