{"id":15605,"date":"2025-06-20T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15605"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:05:48","slug":"what-big-techs-band-of-execs-will-do-in-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15605","title":{"rendered":"What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When I read<\/span> a tweet<\/a> about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew \u201cBoz\u201d Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. It\u2019s very hard to discern truth from satire in 2025, in part because of social media sites owned by Bosworth\u2019s company. But it indeed was true. According to an official press release<\/a>, they\u2019re in the Army now, specifically Detachment 201: the Executive Innovation Corps. Boz is now lieutenant colonel Bosworth.<\/p>\n

The other newly commissioned officers include Kevin Weil, OpenAI\u2019s head of product; Bob McGrew, a former OpenAI head of research now advising Mira Murati\u2019s company<\/a> Thinking Machines Lab<\/a>; and Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir. These middle-aged tech execs were sworn into their posts wearing camo fatigues, as if they just wandered off some Army base in Kandahar, to join a corps that is named after an HTTP status code. (Colonel David Butler, communications adviser to the Army chief of staff, told me their dress uniforms weren\u2019t ready yet.) Detachment 201, wrote the Army in a press release, is part of a military-wide transformation initiative that \u201caims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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