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

Rare-earth mine in Bayan Obo, a mining town in Inner Mongolia in China. .

The Trump administration plans to use a Pentagon-developed AI program to set reference prices for critical minerals, including gallium and germanium, as part of a broader effort to build a global metals trading bloc, Reuters reported on February 24, citing three sources with direct knowledge of the effort.

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