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Ukraine is About to Get Hivemind AI to Power Drone Swarms

There are four components to Hivemind, and they're worth understanding because Ukraine is getting a complete doctrinal shift in a box

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Wes O'Donnell
Mar 27, 2026
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Shield AI

Let’s talk about Shield AI, because outside the defense tech bubble, most people have never heard of them, and that’s a mistake worth correcting.

Shield AI builds AI that operates in GPS-denied, communications-denied, fully contested environments. The kinds of places where traditional drones go deaf and blind and then augur into the ground at te…

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