Day: October 22, 2025

• Palmer Luckey said Anduril’s EagleEye devices were 8 years in the making.
• Anduril’s EagleEye, powered by Lattice AI, overlays data on live battlefield views for soldiers.
• Anduril partnered with Meta, OSI, Qualcomm, and Gentex for EagleEye’s AR tech and helmet design.

The idea for EagleEye is as old as Anduril, says Palmer Luckey.

In an episode of the “TBPN” podcast released on Tuesday, the Anduril cofounder said the company has been working on its recently launched EagleEye range of devices since the defense tech startup was founded in 2017.

“A lot of people think that this move into announcing our augmented reality efforts is this new thing that we pivoted into rather than the culmination of 8 years of platform building, building the software that you need, building the data integration techniques you need,” Luckey said.

Luckey added: “There’s so much you have to do to accomplish this dream of a soldier-born heads-up display that shows you where the baddies are, where your buddies are.”

Launched on October 13, EagleEye will be available as helmets, visors, and glasses. According to a press release, the devices will feature a display that Anduril says can overlay information, like the locations of a user’s teammates, onto their live battlefield surroundings. EagleEye will be powered by Lattice, Anduril’s AI software platform.

The startup is collaborating on the EagleEye product line with several companies, including Meta Platforms, OSI, Qualcomm Technologies, and Gentex Corporation, which have expertise in AR or ballistic helmets, per the release.

On Tuesday’s show, Luckey said that when the company talked about building these devices for soldiers six to seven years ago, people gave them the “side eye” and said it “sounds crazy.” They also questioned what Anduril was doing differently from Microsoft, which in 2018 won a US Army contract for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program.

“We kept investing. We kept building,” he said. “Who would have bet that eight years later, that Microsoft contract, that $22 billion contract vehicle for the architecture of the Army’s AR future would move over to Anduril?”

Representatives for Luckey at Anduril did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

In February, the tech giant and Anduril announced they were partnering on the next phase of the US Army’s IVAS program.

“I’ve been definitely talking to my investors and reminding them that they told us that this was a moonshot that probably was not going to pan out,” Luckey said on Tuesday’s podcast.

Luckey founded virtual reality company Oculus VR in 2012, which he sold two years later to Meta for $2 billion in cash and stock.

Anduril, which was last publicly valued at $30.5 billion, has risen to the top of Silicon Valley’s latest crop of defense tech companies.

Two years into its founding, Anduril had contracts with more than a dozen Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security agencies. In March, the startup beat nine rivals to clinch a $642 million contract to help the US Marine Corps build anti-drone defenses.

Anduril’s products include autonomous sentry towers along the Mexican border and Altius-600M attack drones supplied to Ukraine in their hundreds.

• Mariska Hargitay says she’s glad she waited until later in life to get married.
• The “Law & Order: SVU” star says she didn’t think she “could have handled a marriage earlier.”
• Now 61, Hargitay says her 60s have brought a new sense of clarity and confidence.

Mariska Hargitay says it was a good thing she waited until she was older to get married.

“I didn’t get married until I was 40,” Hargitay said during an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler.”

The Emmy Award-winning actor says she was “grateful” because she didn’t think she “could have handled a marriage earlier.”

“I don’t think I’d be married. I was just — I had too much to learn. So, I just went straight to like, you know, the second husband,” Hargitay said.

Hargitay met her husband, Peter Hermann, in 2002 while on set for “Law & Order: SVU.” After marrying in 2004, the couple welcomed a son in 2006 and later adopted a daughter and a second son in 2011.

Now, at 61, Hargitay says she’s never felt more comfortable in her own skin.

“60 is the new hot,” Hargitay said. “That’s why I get so happy for people that turn 60. I’m like, trust me, sweetie, it’s all just beginning.”

She added that things are “only getting better” as she ages.

“And I’ll tell you something. I remember when I turned 40, and I thought, and I used to tell people, ‘Oh my god, life begins at 40.’ Because my 20s were super hard and I really struggled, and then at 30, you go, ‘Oh, OK. So now, it’s a new beginning,’” Hargitay said.

In her 40s, things “kicked in,” she said, since that was when she got married and had kids.

By her 50s, Hargitay said she’d hit her stride and knew exactly what she was doing.

But entering her 60s gave her “a new permission,” she said.

“We learn ‘no,’ but ‘no’ with love. And we learn, like, oh this is how much time I have left, and I’m so grateful to be alive, and I want to spend my time in the best, most useful, productive, loving, generous — but also generous to myself — way that you go, ‘I’m just so clear,’” Hargitay said.

“There’s a clarity to 60,” she added.

Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar in September, Hargitay said it was a good thing she had kids later in life.

“I also became a mom later in life, and that was a gift because I think I’m a different kind of mother, being already settled in my career,” Hargitay said.

That aside, she said she’s “never been happier” than at this stage in her life.

“I feel stronger than ever. I’ve been working out. I feel at the top of my game in a lot of ways — but also, so much more peaceful, less frantic, and wise,” she added.

A representative for Hargitay did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.

Other Hollywood celebrities have also spoken about embracing aging and how waiting to get married or have kids has shaped their perspectives.

In May 2024, Eva Mendes said that delaying motherhood was the right decision for her.

“In my 20s, I shouldn’t have even been around a child. I was foul-mouthed and smoking. I definitely could not have raised kids in any other era of my life but now,” Mendes said. Mendes was 40 when she had her first child with her husband, Ryan Gosling.

In November 2024, Lauren Sánchez said she never expected to have so much to look forward to in life after turning 50.

“I never thought at 54 — I’m going to be 55 — that I’d be an author, that I’d be getting married. I mean, life is just beginning,” Sánchez said. “When I was 20, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, life is over at 50.’ Let me tell you: It is not, ladies. It is not over.”

• Satya Nadella’s pay package rose to a record $96.5 million for FY 2025.
• The bulk of his pay came from stock awards tied to Microsoft’s market performance.
• Microsoft’s AI push also increased revenue by 15% to $281.7 billion.

Satya Nadella is getting his biggest payday since becoming Microsoft’s CEO a decade ago.

The chief executive’s pay package jumped to a record $96.5 million for fiscal 2025, about a 22% increase from $79 million in 2024, according to the company’s proxy filing on Tuesday.

The bulk of Nadella’s pay — about $84.2 million — came from stock awards tied to Microsoft’s market value during the AI boom. Nadella earned a $9.5 million cash bonus and a $2.5 million base salary, with about $196,000 in other benefits.

Microsoft’s board said more than 95% of Nadella’s compensation opportunity is performance-based, citing shareholder returns and growth metrics as the key factors.

For fiscal year 2025, Microsoft achieved 15% revenue increase to $281.7 billion and a 16% jump in net income to $101.8 billion.

The results “demonstrate that Satya Nadella and his leadership team have positioned Microsoft as a clear artificial intelligence leader for this generational technology shift,” the board committee said, adding that products like Azure and Copilot drove the strong results.

Representatives for Nadella at Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Nadella became Microsoft’s third CEO in 2014. His total compensation has risen over the last decade: about $18 million in 2015, $55 million in 2022, and $79 million in 2024, before reaching this year’s high of $96.5 million.

Last year, Microsoft became the second company to reach a $3 trillion market cap, joining its rival Apple.

The enterprise software giant is one of the most aggressive corporate investors in artificial intelligence.

Microsoft is OpenAI’s biggest investor and has plowed over $13 billion into OpenAI since 2019. Microsoft’s AI strategy has largely relied on a partnership with OpenAI, although the companies have drifted apart lately.

Last month, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said during an all-employee town hall meeting that the company plans to make “significant investments” in its AI chip cluster to become “self-sufficient in AI.”

“It’s critical that a company of our size, with the diversity of businesses that we have, that we are, you know, able to be self-sufficient in AI, if we choose to,” Suleyman said.

Microsoft’s shares rose about 23% this year through Tuesday’s close.