Amazon is scaling Prime Air drone deliveries to nearly 500 locations while Anduril targets 1,000 engineers in Seattle and a reporter's AirTag exposed a hidden book-scanning site used for AI data. These stories illustrate the intersection of logistics, defense tech, and AI infrastructure demands in 2026.

The tracker followed a shipment of rare books to a site where volumes are cut apart and digitized, reportedly for AI training data free of existing AI-generated content.

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The defense company operates from an unmarked office in Bellevue as it expands its AI and autonomous systems work.
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