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The Rebel Drone Maker of Myanmar
“We needed weapons, and we needed them fast,” 3D says, sitting beneath the stalactites in a dimly lit cave, somewhere…
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The Ukraine War Shows the US Military-Industrial Complex Isn’t Battle Ready
Typically, this money would be funneled primarily to so-called prime manufacturers, who are attractive to the Defense Logistics Agency, the…
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The Strangely Believable Tale of a Mythical Rogue Drone
Did you hear about the Air Force AI drone that went rogue and attacked its operators inside a simulation? The cautionary…
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Ukraine’s Quest for Homegrown AI Drones to Take On Russia
The war in Ukraine, now into its 14th grueling month, has displaced millions, sparked global food shortages, and threatened to spiral into wider…
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Should Algorithms Control Nuclear Weapons Launch Codes? The US Says No
Last Thursday, the US State Department outlined a new vision for developing, testing, and verifying military systems—including weapons—that make use…
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San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department…
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This Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech
Beyond Schmidt and Jassy, members included Andrew Moore, Google’s head of cloud AI; Safra Catz, co-CEO of Oracle; Eric Horvitz,…
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The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by Hacking Itself
The Pentagon sees artificial intelligence as a way to outfox, outmaneuver, and dominate future adversaries. But the brittle nature of…
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The Pentagon Scrubs a Cloud Deal and Looks to Add More AI
Late in 2019, the Pentagon chose Microsoft for a $10 billion contract called JEDI that aimed to use the cloud…
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