Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils six Pentagon initiatives, including an Autonomous Warfare Command slated to become a four-star combatant command by Oct. 1, 2027, and Project Meridian, which gives Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich 120 days to review next-generation military technology.
A ShinyHunters affiliate breaches a SaaS provider, steals data from roughly 200 customer organizations, and releases more than 2,100 Azure AD token sets spanning over 40 tenants in about 34 hours.
Charlotte robotics startup Lucid Bots raises $20M in Series B funding, bringing total investment to $34M, as its window-cleaning drones and robots surge from 100 to nearly 1,000 units sold while expanding into painting, waterproofing, and sealing markets.
NVIDIA launches a new suite of space-grade AI computing platforms, including the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module and IGX Thor, with major industry partners already deploying the technology to power next-generation orbital missions and autonomous spacecraft, while its RTX PRO 6000 GPU delivers up to 100x faster geospatial intelligence processing on …
AI and robotics are rapidly empowering small groups and terrorist organizations to launch autonomous attacks using drones powered by open-source vision models, prompting urgent warnings from experts that policymakers must act now to criminalize violent AI fine-tuning and strengthen defenses before these threats become reality.
Anthropic pitched the Pentagon on a $100M drone swarm challenge while simultaneously negotiating red lines on military AI use, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth now orders the Pentagon to bar contractors from doing business with the company.
Pentagon weighs $100 million contract between Musk's xAI and OpenAI for voice-powered autonomous drone swarms while threatening to blacklist Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk' after the company refuses to relax safety restrictions on its Claude chatbot for military applications.
SpaceX and xAI compete in a secretive Pentagon contest to develop voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms, marking a controversial shift for Elon Musk who previously opposed creating 'new tools for killing people.'
Gather AI secures $40 million Series B funding to expand its 'curious' AI-powered drones and forklift cameras that autonomously scan warehouse inventory, detect misplaced stock, and identify safety issues using Bayesian techniques and neural networks in the growing embodied AI robotics market.
US Army awards contract to Swarmbotics AI for developing swarming unmanned ground vehicles that operate in coordinated groups to overwhelm enemies with multiple simultaneous threats, offering cost-effective force multiplication for the 1st Cavalry Division starting January 2026.