US Eyes Pentagon AI Program for Critical Minerals Pricing: Rtrs

The Trump administration plans to use a Pentagon-created artificial intelligence program to help set reference prices for critical minerals as it works to build a global metals trading zone, Reuters reports, citing three unidentified people with direct knowledge of the effort.

• Those reference prices will be set by the Department of Defense’s Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN) AI metals program, report says
• Trump officials are initially focusing OPEN’s AI pricing model on at least four critical minerals, including germanium, gallium, antimony and tungsten, before expanding to others
  • S&P Global and Finnish data firm Rovjok supplying data and ...