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Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones.
The former Google CEO has been quietly working on a military startup called White Stork with plans to design “kamikaze” attack drones.
Forbes first reported the project’s existence this month and has since learned that it is called White Stork, a reference to the national bird and sacred totem of Ukraine, where Schmidt has assumed the role of defense tech advisor and financier. Last year, the billionaire seeded millions of dollars to a Ukrainian startup accelerator called D3, or Dare to Defend Democracy, which provides $125,000 in initial funding to defense tech companies there. Will Roper, former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief and founder of Istari Digital, an AI-enabled weapons simulator backed by Schmidt, also attended the meeting with Ukrainian government officials last summer.
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