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  "id": 11024026,
  "title": "DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars (Luke Fountain/CNBC)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/dod-taps-elon-musk-palmer-luckey-and-former-house-speaker-newt",
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  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-30T20:35:00.000Z",
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  "summary": "The Pentagon is tapping Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, defense technology entrepreneur and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey …",
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        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/elon-musk-says-space-will-soon-hold-nearly-all-compute-google-is",
        "published": "2026-09-28T16:22:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/the-pentagon-taps-elon-musk-and-palmer-luckey-to-help-decide-what-the",
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