"Eric Schmidt's Covert Military Project Unveiled: Autonomous Attack Drones"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Forbes
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been secretly developing a military startup called White Stork, focused on creating "suicide" attack drones using artificial intelligence for visual targeting and functioning in GPS jamming environments. Schmidt, a vocal proponent of drones as a means of combating Russian forces in Ukraine, has been meeting with top Ukrainian leaders and investing in defense tech companies in the country. The project, shrouded in secrecy and operating under a network of LLCs, has become an open secret in the drone community, with Schmidt's involvement as the sole beneficial owner of the holding company for White Stork.