Trump administration to use Pentagon AI to set mineral reference prices — gallium and germanium among first four targets

Tom's Hardware
Feb 25, 2026, 7:20 am103 pts
The Trump administration wants to use DARPA's Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should cost once labor, processing, and other inputs are factored in and the effects of alleged Chinese market…

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