An employee holds a silicon wafer with chips etched into it as US Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, visits Applied Materials in Sunnyvale, California, on May 22, 2023. (Jim Wilson/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (Chesnot via Getty Images)
A US Army Origin autonomous weapons system operates during Project Convergence 22 experimentation on October 26, 2022, in Fort Irwin, California. (DVIDS)
A-10 software engineers work together in teams to verify functionality of organically developed operational flight program software on November 5, 2020, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, before it is released to the warfighter. (US Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)
The medium-displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sits pierside at Naval Base San Diego during the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Establishment ceremony on May 13, 2022, in San Diego, California. (US Navy photo by Kevin C. Leitner)
A General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft flight tests the Skyborg Autonomy Core System in El Mirage, California, on June 24, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Tabatha Arellano)
An unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operator recovers a MK 18 MOD 2 UUV after an operational test off the coast of Bahrain on October 20, 2015. (US Navy Photo by Jonah Stepanik)