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Pentagon’s Short-Video AI Procurement Push Raises Questions About Spending Visibility

WIRED examines how Tradewinds can shorten AI purchasing timelines while current priorities emphasize targeting and flexible contracts remain difficult to trace.

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TRANSCOM Uses Randomised AI to Make Military Logistics Harder to Track

US Transportation Command is exploring adaptive and deliberately unpredictable logistics while trying to protect the data behind its decisions.

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Pentagon Adds Military Versions of ChatGPT and Grok

Three million US defense personnel can now access tailored versions of OpenAI and xAI models through the secure GenAI.mil portal.

Agricultural drone adapting its spray pattern above a large green plantation

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GEODASH Builds Smarter Spraying Drones for Large Farms

DroneDash and GEODNET are developing an agricultural drone that adapts to crops and terrain in flight without repeated field mapping.

A unified secure AI platform extending from a defence data centre and cloud to ships, aircraft, land units, and disconnected edge devices

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Red Hat Gives UK Defence One AI Platform From Cloud to Tactical Edge

The UK MOD will use Red Hat AI, OpenShift, virtualization, and Ansible to standardise model delivery across services, legacy systems, clouds, and field devices.

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Palantir’s Military AI Demo Puts Guardrails at the Tactical Edge

Palantir’s AIP demonstration combines language models with classified data controls, audit records and human decision-making in military operations.

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Brad Smith’s Warning Put Autonomous Weapons Back on the Policy Agenda

Microsoft's work on autonomous weapons showed how the topic was shaping the AI landscape.

A human decision gate interrupts an autonomous targeting system before lethal action can occur.

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Scientists Pledged Not to Build Weapons That Kill Autonomously

More than 2,400 researchers backed a 2018 pledge that the decision to take human life must never be delegated to a machine.

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