Palantir Technologies' Maven Smart System (MSS) has been formally designated a Pentagon program of record, with the fiscal year 2027 budget request including $2.3 billion over five years to expand the…
The US Army's personnel management system is inadequate for AI-enabled autonomous warfare, according to a new analysis, which argues that the service must develop dedicated career pathways for soldier…
The US Army has selected Ford, General Motors, and BC Customs to produce prototypes for its new Infantry Squad Vehicle – Heavy (ISV-H) program, aiming to replace the Humvee with a lighter, more agile …
NATO is building the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, a digital battlespace network using AI-assisted drones, sensors, and satellites to detect and repel potential Russian attacks along its easter…
At the US Army's Project Convergence Capstone exercise at Fort Irwin, California, soldiers testing the prototype Next Generation Command and Control system (NGC2) said they still rely on physical pape…
Palantir Technologies reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94bn, up 93 percent year-over-year, and raised its annual forecast to between $8.15bn and $8.158bn, sending shares up more than 14 percent i…
The US Army has awarded an 18-month contract to Harbinger Motors, a California-based EV startup, for uncrewed, hybrid-electric resupply vehicles, with American Rheinmetall as the lead contractor and p…
ServiceNow surged 6% and Salesforce climbed 4% as both companies landed major artificial intelligence contracts with US government agencies, including a $5.6 billion, 10-year deal between Salesforce a…
The White House accused Chinese-owned Moonshot AI of illegally distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 model to build its Kimi K3 model, raising concerns about a repeat of the DeepSeek moment in the US-China A…
Retired US Army General James 'Spider' Marks warns that closed AI systems pose national security risks as China's open-source Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context …
The US Army has reinstated limits on generative AI use after an 'unlimited' token pool was exhausted within weeks, according to an internal Army email. The Army Chief Information Officer's shared 100 …
The US Army exhausted its artificial intelligence token budget for the Ask Sage platform within weeks of promising unlimited access, forcing usage limits to be reinstated. The Army had access to 100 m…
The US Marine Corps has contracted Allen Control Systems (ACS) to integrate its Bullfrog autonomous weapon system onto the L-MADIS counter-drone platform, using existing machine guns like the M240 to …
The US Navy released a strategy to build an 'AI-first' fleet by weaponizing data and artificial intelligence, focusing on six core areas including accelerated AI adoption, streamlined data management,…
The Australian Army has tested the Vector AI drone, refined using combat data from Ukraine, to enhance target detection and electronic warfare resilience. Developed by Germany's Quantum Systems, the d…
The US Army conducted a tabletop exercise inspired by Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb drone attack to prepare for defending its bases against drone strikes and cyber attacks. The exercise highlighted th…
The US Army commissioned three more tech executives, including Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, into Detachment 201 as lieutenant colonels, bringing the total to seven Silicon Valley leaders advising the P…
Pokémon Go players' voluntary 3D scans trained Niantic Spatial's AI models for GPS-free navigation, which are now being combined with defense contractor Vantor's software to guide military drones when…
Israeli defense-AI startup Airis Labs emerged from stealth and announced a $60 million total funding round, including a $31 million Series B led by PSG Equity. Founded in 2023, the Tel Aviv-based comp…
Meta AI glasses are enabling disabled users to navigate daily tasks hands-free, with veterans like Donald Overton, who lost his sight in Iraq, using the device to read menus and navigate airports, and…