Warhound, a new Texas-based defense startup from Anduril's Palmer Luckey and Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm, has raised $200 million to supply genetically enhanced working dogs to the US military and police, cloning and gene-editing canines before equipping them with Anduril's 'advanced cybernetic Augments.' The Verge reports the venture calls its product 'a new breed of dominance,' while MIT Technology Review groups it among the week's most attention-grabbing—and unsettling—tech stories. The effort sits at the uneasy intersection of biotechnology, defense contracting, and animal welfare, raising questions about how far genetic engineering should extend into living creatures bred for warfare. It also exemplifies a broader trend of Silicon Valley figures pushing enhanced, autonomous systems into military applications.
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