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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace.

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Data collected by drones on battlefields in Ukraine is feeding a new, loosely regulated marketplace for the defense sector. The drone data is expected to remain valuable long after the hardware is destroyed.

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“Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector.”
MIT Technology Review AI, 04 Sept 2026, 09:25.

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