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Pentagon AI oversight office struggles to keep pace with department’s ambitions, GAO finds
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AFP warns Australia of ‘tsunami of youth crime’ and radicalisation accelerated by AI
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Army pilots AI-backed maintenance program to digitize manuals, streamline repairs
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US Army reportedly developing program that would deploy AI agents to autonomously seek and destroy targets in enemy digital infrastructures — experts warn ECHOTRIBBLE program could have disastrous consequences
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Navy robot deal quadruples as US looks to ‘outsmart’ China with AI at sea
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Hegseth, service secretaries discuss ‘generational change’ of Autonomous Warfare Command
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US Navy deploys unmanned maritime drone to support carrier strike group in historic first
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Swedish researchers develop AI to detect concealed handguns using Wi-Fi signals
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Kratos combat drone completes first Euro flight, advances turbojet engine production
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Building an AI data center costs billions. Defending it is another story
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Army's Project Gatekeeper aims to cut software approval times from months to ‘minutes’ - Breaking Defense
With the cold breed: For soldiers of the 11th Airborne Division, ‘winter is always coming’
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Teledyne FLIR Defense releases new compact counter-UAS radar - Breaking Defense
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Army to take a (cautious) step toward employing AI agents to defend networks: Official - Breaking Defense
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US-Norwegian startup Heaviside launches Tyr loitering munition - Breaking Defense
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Lockheed unveils PAC-3 Edge, its next-gen Patriot interceptor - Breaking Defense
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Thales looks to export new C2 platform to Gulf nations, says executive - Breaking Defense
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100 new UK jobs created as Kuwait buys British-made AI-enabled air defence systems
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Zero Trust gets harder when every user, device, weapon, and AI agent needs an identity - Breaking Defense
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Bipartisan Senate bill would push DOD to expand its oversight of in-use commercial frontier AI models
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Navy, Shield AI pour big bucks into X-BAT drone development - Breaking Defense
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Gecko Robotics, Anduril team up for new Baltimore County shipyard - Breaking Defense
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Army issues just under $100M in application awards for NGC2 to 9 companies - Breaking Defense
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General Dynamics taps Primordial to build AI assistant for combat vehicle crews - Breaking Defense
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Army awards Anduril contract worth up to $1.8B over five years to expand NGC2
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Ukraine’s former defense minister launches ‘Manhattan Project’ for killer robots
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Army Special Forces graduate first batch of Robotics Technician Integrators, a new job the rest of the service is eyeing
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Travis Metz to lead DIU as Owen West takes ‘leave of absence’ to help steer new AutoWarCom push
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US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
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Pentagon partners with CIA’s In-Q-Tel for ‘technology scouting’ - Breaking Defense
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Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
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California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China — federal prosecutors say chips were routed through Malaysia and Singapore using false paperwork
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Ex-defense minister's futuristic 'Army of Robots' raises eyebrows in Ukraine - Breaking Defense
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Moroccan startup unveils prototye UAV that operates without GPS signal - Breaking Defense
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president | TechCrunch
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U.S. creates new Autonomous Warfare Command to fuse and enhance military drone ops
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Estonia accuses Russia of ordering August arson attack on Milrem - Breaking Defense
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How readiness stays ready: The F110 delivers power, reliability and scale for the F-15EX - Breaking Defense
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U.S. Africa Command wants tech innovation to offset troops’ shrinking ground presence
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Israel’s Uvision, Estonia’s Lendurai to integrate systems for NATO military - Breaking Defense
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Federal Leaders Guide to the CAIO & CDO: Army’s CW5 Kevin Banks on in-house AI development
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DC Circuit panel upholds Pentagon’s ban on Anthropic - so what comes next? - Breaking Defense
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Pentagon was right to slap Anthropic with a security supply chain risk label, federal court says
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Federal court allows the U.S. government to label Anthropic a supply chain risk
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GenAI.mil attracts about half a million ‘power users’ as Pentagon pushes forward with frontier models
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Trump wants to push the militarization of the White House ballroom with this addition, but it won’t be easy
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New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
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DHS exploring new biosurveillance capabilities as biological threats evolve, officials say
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AI to help make logistics less predictable and vulnerable to adversaries, Transcom commander says
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US and China propose hotline to de-escalate AI threats ahead of Washington summit
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Prime Minister drives global work on artificial intelligence at UNGA as UK and US make history with firing from undersea drone
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AI intelligence report falsely identifies weapons on Chinese ship, nearly triggers US military operation
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
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She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
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Kash Patel says that AI use at the FBI has 'increased by 605%' since he became director — claims that every major tech player is 'embedded' in the agency
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Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no human input and zero external comms
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GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in new safety benchmark
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U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report
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Interior to use facial recognition AI for missing and murdered persons, human trafficking cases
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US and China experts push for shared rules banning AI control over nuclear weapons
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Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying
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USA’s Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech
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Closing the Navy’s find, fix, and finish kill chain with remote mine hunting - Breaking Defense
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra decrypts a Nazi radio message in ten hours that went unsolved for 83 years
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Joint Chiefs chairman says U.S. forces must prepare to be ‘hunted’ by autonomous systems
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UN Human Rights Council 63: UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue on Mercenaries
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The gap between demand and delivery is widening. AI can help close it. - Breaking Defense
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Artificial intelligence may help the Navy’s financial managers untangle decades of systems | Federal News Network
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Textron, Merlin offer unmanned Cessna Skycourier for Pacific island resupply - Breaking Defense
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Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop
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Thorough reorganization at NSA will create five 'mission centers,' including cyber and AI
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Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba
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Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems
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Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks
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Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says
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Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says
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Army awards $196M for sensors in first production contracts under EW-focused call for solutions
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DOE, Defense Department To Highlight Automated Manufacturing For Faster U.S. Defense Production
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Canada, Ukraine to jointly produce defense tech, part of '100-year partnership' - Breaking Defense
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Israeli military creates new branch focused on AI, drones and robotics - Breaking Defense
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Decades of delayed maintenance has left Pentagon networks in ‘potential peril’ for the AI age, cyber defense commander says: ‘no more.’
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Swarmer to acquire Ukrainian UGV maker Ratel Robotics for up to $224M - The Robot Report
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DoD cyber strategy aims for 'something big, something muscular' in offensive ops - Breaking Defense
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NASA wants humans back on the Moon in 2028. IBM’s new AI could help get them there
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Pentagon's $1.5B reprogramming would shift money to AI center, MV-75 tiltrotor - Breaking Defense
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