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DOGE Founders Cash In: Defense AI, Medicare Startups & SpaceX's Forced IPO
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Three former DOGE engineers are raising $130M for a Pentagon AI startup — and ethics rules may not be enough to stop them. Plus SpaceX's coming IPO that will land in millions of retirement accounts uninvited.
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Three former DOGE engineers are raising one hundred and thirty million dollars for an AI defense startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. That's the signal today.
Pentagon ethics rules do impose a one-year cooling-off period on Kliger personally. He can't directly lobby his former colleagues.
A separate development adds more texture to this picture. Two other DOGE founders, Cavanaugh and Fox, have launched Special.co, an AI efficiency company explicitly targeting Medicare and government-funded businesses.
The involuntary exposure story is just as striking. Elon Musk's SpaceX is moving toward a seventy-five-billion-dollar IPO, valuing the company at one point seven seven trillion dollars.
On the enterprise side, Voicecomm Technology has announced a deepened partnership with Huawei Cloud, launching the VocSageX Agent Development Platform. The framing is explicitly around trustworthy AI.
The through-line across all of this is a set of structural gaps. Ethics rules that restrict individuals but not their firms.
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