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Forterra Deploys 100+ Autonomous Lancer UGVs in Ukraine, Logging 1,100+ Combat Missions in Nine Months — Largest US Autonomous Ground Vehicle Deployment Ever
US autonomous-vehicle startup Forterra has deployed 100+ self-driving Lancer ATVs in Ukraine, logging 1,100+ missions hauling supplies and evacuating casualties since 2025. Ukrainian troops mostly teleoperate them rather than trust full autonomy in combat.
How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications
MIT researchers explore how individuals with limited coding experience can build AI-driven tools for defense-related tasks.
NATO Summit in Ankara: AI Security Concerns and U.S. Dominance Spark Tensions
The upcoming NATO summit in Ankara will focus on AI security, with U.S. AI export controls and alliance access at the center of discussions.
US control of frontier AI looms over NATO summit
Washington decides which NATO allies access cyber-capable AI like Claude Mythos. At the Ankara summit, the fight stays in the corridors.
AI Export Controls Need an Alliance Price: Why South Korea’s Submarine Deal Matters | The Economy
South Korea bears real costs from US AI export controls The AI memory boom has provided temporary compensation Submarine cooperation adds a major strategic return In 2025, South Korea shipped $130.8 billion worth of goods to Ch
Palantir CEO Slams OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Pricing and Data Risks, Warns of China's AI Progress
Palantir CEO criticized OpenAI and Anthropic for their pricing models and data handling, arguing they threaten U.S. national security. He emphasized AI sovereignty and cautioned against over-dependence on Silicon Valley, stressing the importance of domestic control over AI technology.
AI, Trust, and Teaming: The Humans-as-Handlers Approach for Autonomous and Opaque AI Systems
arXiv:2607.00523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous, and across domains, increasingly autonomous systems are carrying out tasks which raise significant ethical and legal challenges which demonstrate a need for strong human-machine teams rooted in trust. In this article, I argue that within highly impactful areas (such as medicine or warfighting) there are grounds for us initially treating autonomous and opaque systems as relevantly analogous to dogs (or other animals with which we have close relationships). Under this analogy, humans making use of these systems are not to be viewed as "users" or "deployers" of these systems, but instead take the role of "handlers". This recasting of roles shifts the way we view humans, AI-enabled and autonomous systems, and the relations between them, and moreover clarifies the clear and traceable lines of responsibility humans have for the outcomes brought about when using these systems. In developing this point, I clarify that the machine-animal analogy does admit disanalogous elements, but that its touch-points ground it as a starting point. I then explore how we can divest the humans-as-handlers approach of those aspects of our relationships with animals which are unfitting for how we engage with and make use of autonomous and AI-enabled systems. I conclude by arguing that the trajectory of human-machine teamings for autonomous and AI-enabled systems should be a state where we authentically view these not as artifacts which we simply make use of, but as collaborators with which we pursue complex goals and carry out complex tasks.
Quantum Systems weighs merger with kamikaze drone start-up Stark
German maker of unmanned surveillance aircraft says $1.2bn fundraising removed shareholder opposition to developing lethal weapons
Most DIB Firms Fear AI-Powered Cyber Attack | Corporate Compliance Insights
CCI staff share recent surveys, reports and analysis on risk, compliance, governance, infosec and leadership issues.
The Battle over Access to Artificial Intelligence: Israel’s Next Strategic Challenge | INSS
Executive Order 14409 (June 2, 2026), “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security” – which establishes a framework for the review of frontier AI models and the assessment of national security risks. However, it does not explicitly create a new mechanism for restricting ...
Palantir and Nvidia Expand Sovereign AI Partnership for US Government
Palantir and Nvidia are deepening their collaboration to provide sovereign AI solutions for the US government.
US lifts curbs on Anthropic's Fable, Mythos AI models
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What would multilateral ‘AI arms control’ look like?
Given the competition, it’s debatable whether a US-China safety deal is even possible
US regulator of foreign investment eyes agentic AI, data centers
Agentic AI programs and the data centers that power them are a top concern for national security experts at the US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.
Taiwan Opposition’s $7.5 Billion Plan Stirs Drone Defense Debate
Taiwan’s main opposition party outlined plans to develop the drone industry just days after stalling a similar proposal from President Lai Ching-te’s government, amid a debate on unmanned systems with crucial implications for the island’s defense.
Five Eyes AI cyber warning prompts calls for faster defence
Attackers are already using AI to exploit flaws faster than many organisations can detect them, Five Eyes agencies warned.
China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
New AI developments from China, specifically the Z.ai model, are being positioned as competitors to the Mythos framework.
Palantir Joins Forces with Army to Enhance AI Tools, Shares Surge 5% on Defense Modernization Project
Palantir is collaborating with the U.S. Army on AI-enhanced tools under the NGC2 program, focusing on rapid prototyping and improved decision-making.
China blacklists 20 Japanese entities in dual-use export crackdown | investingLive
China has blacklisted 20 Japanese entities including defence and industrial names, citing Tokyo's remilitarisation drive, while insisting normal bilateral trade remains unaffected.
China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race
Chinese AI models have reached leading-edge cybersecurity capabilities, reshaping the competitive landscape and influencing government policy on frontier model access.
China Builds AI Vulnerability Scanner to Counter Mythos: Every Zero-Day Goes to Beijing by Law
China AI vulnerability scanner Tulongfeng was unveiled June 28 by sanctioned Qihoo 360 at ISC.AI 2026 using a multi-agent swarm to challenge Anthropic Mythos — but Chinese law requires every zero-day to be reported to Beijing within 48 hours, undercutting the cyber deterrence framing Zhou Hongyi
Governing Actions, Not Agents: Institutional Attestation as a Governance Model for Autonomous AI Systems
arXiv:2606.26298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous AI agents may begin to perform consequential, irreversible actions such as clinical prescribing and production software deployment. This paper observes that human institutions have governed powerful autonomous actors not by monitoring their reasoning but by requiring independently attested evidence at the point of consequential action. We
Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone
Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near Jindabyne Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Two hikers who veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park have been found within five hours using a drone powered by artificial intelligence, a first-of-its-kind mission, Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has said. The two men, aged in their 20s, were reported missing at 7pm on Tuesday evening after they failed to return to a rendezvous point on time. Continue reading...
World Leaders Want American AI — But Fear the Off Switch
Macron and Modi raised alarms at G7 that the U.S. could cut off AI access overnight. The Anthropic blackout just proved the fear is real.
Five Eyes Warns AI Could Speed Cyberattacks Within Months - TechRepublic
Five Eyes agencies warned AI could accelerate cyberattacks within months, putting pressure on security teams to control prompt injection and phishing risks.
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI Model Cleared by US for Wider Use
Anthropic PBC won US approval to restore some access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model, after resolving Trump administration concerns about the technology’s potential threats to national security.
Opinion | Make It Make Sense: Who is winning the AI battle? - The Washington Post
In this episode of “Make It Make Sense,” James Hohmann talks with Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the AI race between the United States and China, how Beijing is deploying the technology and whether fears of a Chinese AGI takeover are just hype.
Breaking: White House Orders OpenAI To Limit GPT 5.6 Release Over Security Reasons
OpenAI agreed to limit GPT-5.6 access after a White House request as U.S. officials navigate AI safety concerns and regulatory uncertainty.
Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder
Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it’s needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models
Is the US tightening grip on AI? Trump administration slows GPT-5.6 rollout
The US government has requested a staggered rollout of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 due to national security concerns. Learn how this impacts AI regulation. Read more here.
Anthropic risk designation 'punishment,' former national security officials say
Former national security officials argued in a court brief that the US government's designation of Anthropic as a security risk is a pretextual attempt to punish the company.
Fifty Years of Specification Completeness: What Aviation Certification Tells AI Governance About Epoch Limits, Proof Surfaces, and the Structural Gap
arXiv:2606.25120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aviation software certification has operationalised three structural requirements for governed software systems since 1992: structured governance linkage between governing specifications and operational evidence, context-bounded validity that triggers revalidation when operational context changes, and an objective evidence architecture that defines what proof means and what makes it sufficient. These requirements appear in DO-178C and DO-330 and are enforced through FAA and EASA certification. No existing framework requires these structural properties as intrinsic properties of individual AI governance documents. A system prompt, an AGENTS.md file, a governance policy, or a task envelope can be deployed without satisfying any of the three requirements aviation has enforced for three decades. Aviation is the most technically rigorous instance: its standard-setting bodies have acknowledged that their frameworks break down for AI systems, yet none requires these properties of individual governance documents. Aviation's structural requirements break down at the system level because AI systems are non-deterministic, but remain transferable at the document level: the governance artifact is a static artifact whose structural properties can be evaluated independently of the stochastic system it governs. The paper maps DO-178C's traceability architecture, DO-330's requalification triggers, and DO-178C's objective evidence requirements onto three structural findings: epoch limits on governance document validity, proof surfaces as the revalidation feedback mechanism, and the absence of structural completeness requirements in AI governance instruments. An empirical companion (arXiv:2604.21090) found that 37% of AI governance documents fall below the structural quality threshold. PromptQ's seven-principle framework operationalises these requirements at the governance document layer.
Five Eyes warn AI cyber risks are rising within months
Boards face growing pressure to treat AI-driven cyber threats as an immediate business risk, with attackers able to exploit flaws within months.
Asia’s defense boom is rewiring the global arms supply chain
Asia, once an arms importer, is now emerging as a hardware manufacturer and arms exporter, driving the global defense industry in a more multipolar world.
Would Claude Refuse an Illegal Military Order?
The AI chatbot told me that it has misgivings about its role in modern warfare.
Agentic AI in Cybersecurity: Benefits, Risks, and the Future of Autonomous Defense
Cybersecurity leaders increasingly ... for high-impact decisions. Experts caution that fully autonomous cybersecurity systems may introduce operational and governance risks if organizations fail to implement proper controls and transparency mechanisms. The most effective approach combines AI-driven automation with human expertise. Beyond technical benefits, Agentic AI can deliver measurable business ...
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028
The Trump administration has set a goal for the development of a national American quantum computer by 2028.
Five Eyes Cybersecurity Agencies Issue Statement Regarding AI-Related Shifts in Cybersecurity Risks, Urging Organizational Leaders to “Act Now” | Inside Privacy
On June 22, the leaders of the cybersecurity agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the U.S. issued a joint statement calling for an
German AI startup powers military drones without GPS
A Munich-based artificial intelligence startup called SE3 Labs stepped out of stealth mode on June 26, 2026, announcing that its spatial AI platform is already under contract with the German Bundeswehr and operational in military exercises across Europe, where the
‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools
Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says A new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the US government’s immigration surveillance arsenal, revealing fresh details about how spending on technology and AI tools to find and track migrants has soared to record levels during Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week, analyzed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contracts with 11 companies the authors said provide surveillance tech. They found the money awarded to these firms doubled from 2024 to 2025, to just over $310m – and in 2026, that number soared to a record $513m. Continue reading...
Drone start-up Stark wins more funding from Peter Thiel-backed firm
US billionaire’s fund participated in €500mn funding round despite previous criticism of company’s links with financier
AI-powered threats may succeed ‘within months’, Five Eyes warns
Western governments and corporates cautioned that their lead in AI might not last long
What The New Executive Order On AI And Cybersecurity Means For Your Business - New Technology - United States
The EO responds to concerns surrounding two recently announced next-generation frontier AI models — Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s 5.5 Cyber — which are currently in limited testing and have not been released...
The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now | National Cyber Security Centre
Nick Andersen - Acting Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ... The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now.
AI artificial intelligence 'The Timeline Is Months': Five Eyes' Big Warning Over Next AI Breakthrough
The warning came in a joint statement from the Five Eyes Intelligence Oversight and Review Council (FIORC), a grouping of intelligence and security entities from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
AI models capable of devastating attacks on governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model Powerful AI models capable of devastating new cyber attacks on governments and businesses are mere months away, intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act now”. The surprising public intervention by signals agencies for Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada comes after the Trump administration earlier this month decided to block “foreign nationals” from using a much-hyped AI model built by tech company Anthropic, called Fable. Continue reading...
The U.S. Is Losing the AI Credibility War—to Itself | Council on Foreign Relations
Recent restrictions on advanced AI models are undermining critical U.S. cybersecurity outcomes. The administration needs a coherent strategy to work with the private sector, stay ahead of adversaries, keep allies on board, and maintain trust in the U.S. AI stack.
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems
One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here
Putin’s war machine sputters in drone age
Ukraine’s innovations cut into Russia’s manpower advantage
The Pentagon's AI chief swore in a court filing that xAI's Grok helped fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in 96 hours
A court filing reveals claims regarding the use of xAI's Grok in military operations involving high-volume munitions deployment.
Ondas Acquires Cyberhawk's iHawk: A Leap in AI-Driven Infrastructure Security Solutions
Ondas is acquiring Cyberhawk's iHawk platform to boost analytics and AI decision support in defense and infrastructure markets.
Artificial Intelligence as Game Changer in Cybersecurity: What We Learned in 2025-2026, and how this is relevant for Africa
arXiv:2606.20102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In 2025 and 2026, two events settled questions that had until then been speculative. In the first, a large language model executed the great majority of a state-aligned cyber-espionage campaign on its own, with human operators intervening at only a few decision points. In the second, the most capable cyber-relevant model was placed under a controlled-access program limited to a vetted set of United States technology firms, allied governments, and European standards bodies; that perimeter included no African government, operator, or university. Together the two events establish the argument of this paper: frontier language models have become a decisive instrument of cyber operations, and that instrument is built, owned, and rationed within a small circle from which Africa is absent. The paper documents Africa's exclusion on every count. The continent does not build frontier models, cannot yet operate them, and cannot, for now, obtain the most capable ones. The operational deficit is set out along three axes, skilled people, compute and electrical power, and investment, each measured against current figures; meanwhile AI-enabled fraud is already mounting against African mobile-money systems, the part of the digital economy the continent leads. Two constraints follow: the gating of frontier models by their developers, which no African decision can open, and a chosen dependence on infrastructure vendors now caught in geopolitical restriction. Because comparable but ungated models are forecast to spread within six to twelve months, the paper argues for a response that operates inside that window through threat-intelligence sharing, governance adoption, and partnership, undertaken by Africans on their own terms.
Measuring Biological Capabilities and Risks of AI Agents
arXiv:2606.19899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses a rapidly emerging policy challenge: how to generate and interpret credible evidence about the biological capabilities and risks of AI scientists, or agentic AI systems capable of autonomously or collaboratively performing multi-step scientific tasks. As these systems enter real research workflows, decision-makers increasingly face evaluation results whose meaning depends on underlying design choices that are often implicit or under-documented. We synthesize current evidence on AI-enabled biological risks and introduce biological agentic evaluations as a promising, but interpretation-sensitive, tool for assessing these systems. Our central contribution is a set of practical, experience-grounded considerations -- drawing from our own evaluations -- that show how choices around defining, designing, running, scoring, and documenting evaluations materially shape what results do and do not imply about risk. The analysis is intended to help policymakers interpret biological evaluation outputs with appropriate caution; guide public and private funders toward high-leverage investments in AI-biology evaluation research; and support biosecurity practitioners assessing emerging AI systems. A secondary audience includes researchers designing or conducting agentic evaluations within frontier AI labs, AI providers, scientific institutions, and third-party evaluation organizations.
Dawn of AI Geopolitics: Regulation, Norms, and Power Beyond Hardware | Geopolitical Monitor
States are over-securitizing inputs and under-governing outputs, leaving the most consequential domains of AI power largely unregulated and open to capture.
Quantum Systems and Tencore expand defence robotics production with new German manufacturing hub
Quantum Tencore Industries (QTI), the joint venture between German startup Quantum Systems and Ukrainian UGV manufacturer Tencore, was selected for the delivery of 2,000 TerMIT unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the next 12 months. QTI is the second German-Ukrainian joint venture between the two companies under the “Build with Ukraine” initiative and […]
Trump Tells Axios He Doesn’t See Anthropic as US Security Threat
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t view Anthropic PBC as a national-security threat, days after his administration took steps to cut off foreign access to the tech company’s most advanced artificial intelligence models.
Palladyne AI Secures Army Contract for Autonomous Systems Field Trials
Palladyne AI secured key Army contracts to develop SwarmOS and Gremlin-X, aiming to streamline command of diverse autonomous systems during upcoming field trials.
AI Company Dream Triples Value to $3 Billion in Funding Round
Dream, an Israeli artificial intelligence company that provides AI and cybersecurity services to governments and critical infrastructure operators, has raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation.
New €500 million growth vehicle E2D aims to close Europe’s DefenceTech scaling gap
VC firms Earlybird and AVP today announce the launch of E2D, a €500 million European dual-use and DefenceTech growth fund – one of the most significant Franco-German investment collaborations in the European tech ecosystem. E2D will be a growth-stage fund, targeting around 20 companies at an average ticket size of approximately €25 million, with a […]
Trump’s Anthropic restrictions rattle U.S. allies as AI leaders gather at G-7 - The Washington Post
Just days after the U.S. government banned foreign nationals from using Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence models, executives from the top labs urged the leaders of Western democracies to work together to reap the benefits of ...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Sparks Debate on Ethics and Oversight in Military Use
Elon Musk's AI tool, Grok, has been identified as a component in US military operations, triggering debates on ethics and oversight in defense.
NAVI-Orbital: First In-Orbit Demonstration of a Zero-Shot Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Earth Observation
arXiv:2606.18271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Earth Observation data generation outpaces downlink bandwidth and human-in-the-loop processing, a widening gap has emerged between onboard collection and actionable ground intelligence. This paper presents NAVI-Orbital, a software system deployed on a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) spacecraft. On April 16, 2026, NAVI-Orbital achieved what is, to the authors' knowledge, the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model performing autonomous multi-modal inference entirely onboard. NAVI-Orbital uses a local vision-language model (Gemma 3) to classify each captured scene, produce a text description of its content and the relationships between its features, and respond to operator follow-up via natural-language dialogue. The system is re-tasked through plain-English prompts in place of conventional command sequences, and is orchestrated by a graph-based state machine (LangGraph) coordinating dedicated agents for detection and dialogue. Results across ground benchmarking (88.16% accuracy on the 7,960-image curated AID benchmark), Flatsat validation, and live in-orbit captures of newly acquired, previously unseen Earth imagery (including uncorrected YAM-9 imagery, processed onboard with hardware-accelerated GPU inference and no fine-tuning for the flight instrument) demonstrate the feasibility of running foundation models on satellite-class edge computers to invert the conventional acquire-then-downlink-everything bandwidth profile through semantic compression of Earth observations in-orbit.
Companies Move to Secure Data as AI Increases Security Risks
Michael Cardaci, CEO of FedHIVE said that the government is moving 'faster than its ever moved before' to secure data and make sure that US computing companies are compliant in case of national security risks as AI use ramps up. Cardaci said that the US government is focused on keeping US technology inside of its borders as the race for global AI dominance heats up. (Source: Bloomberg)
Elon Musk's Grok AI Sparks Debate on Ethics and Oversight in Military Use
Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, has been revealed as a critical component in US military operations, triggering debates on AI ethics and oversight in defense.
DOJ Defends Musk’s xAI in Data-Center Pollution Lawsuit
The Mississippi facility is supporting the training and development of new AI models that the government is relying on for national-security purposes, the department says.
AI-native startups are rewriting who wins the global startup race - Digital Journal
Defence tech is now the fastest-growing ... European venture capital (VC) constraints on defence investment give way to geopolitical reality. Seed funding is also being structurally rewritten. Large VC funds are now deploying $20-50 million checks at this stage to lock in top AI-native startups early, compressing ...
US AI Export Controls Cause Furor - CEPA
By banning foreigners from accessing Anthropic’s Fable 5, the US abandons its hands-off approach to artificial intelligence — and angers allies.
US just treated an AI model like a missile. The age of software export controls has started with a bug report - The Times of India
For years, technology export controls meant things that arrived in wooden crates. Advanced chips.
Drone warfare startup PDKINEMATICS raises €2 million for precision-guidance systems out of Lithuania
PDKINEMATICS, a Lithuanian defence engineering company, announced the close of a €2 million Seed round to scale manufacturing and expand deployments of the company’s precision guidance systems for UAVs across Europe and Ukraine. The round was co-led by Coinvest Capital, Lithuania’s sovereign investment fund, and Iron Wolf Capital, an active defence investors in Europe – […]
UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threat The UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body. Richard Horne, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said hostile states such as Russia, China and Iran were increasingly targeting systems behind the UK’s key services. Continue reading...
We Are On A Twin-Track Road To An AI Battlefield
He predicted AI systems would soon be unified into a single network overseeing the battlefield, leading to a “war of operating systems” with Russia in the next three to five years—something referred to as a “new paradigm” of war.
Trump's AI export strategy runs into Trump's export controls
A flagship U.S. program designed to boost AI exports could be undermined by the very administration that created it.
Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Files to Intervene and Dismiss Lawsuit that Would Hamper America’s AI Innovation and Security | United States Department of Justice
The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) filed a motion to intervene and to dismiss a private citizen lawsuit seeking to power down a large artificial intelligence (AI) facility in Southaven, Mississippi.
Cutting access to Anthropic’s Mythos is a gift to China
Washington’s suspension just strengthened Beijing’s pitch for its own competing AI models
Breakingviews - Anthropic becomes a cautionary sovereign-AI fable
That even close allies like the United Kingdom could be cut off from silicon smarts raises further alarm. White House officials have said, opens new tab that U.S. AI dominance will be built on exporting American technology, making it the global standard.
Anthropic's Fable 5 scramble
Anthropic's powerful Fable 5 AI model was pulled after an urgent report from Amazon triggered a White House intervention over national security concerns.
Cyber leaders defend Anthropic's banned model
Cybersecurity leaders are urging the Trump administration to reverse restrictions on Anthropic's advanced AI models, arguing the move hinders defenders against AI-powered hacking threats.
Cybersecurity executives urge the Trump administration to ease restrictions on Anthropic AI models | Business | bozemandailychronicle.com
A group of cybersecurity executives and experts is asking the Trump administration to lift its directive preventing the use of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence models by foreign nationals, saying the
Venture Capital in the Age of Wars: Geopolitical Competition and the Transformation of Innovation
The emergence of an “Age of Wars” is fundamentally reshaping venture capital. Technologies associated with security, resilience, strategic autonomy, and military effectiveness are increasingly replacing consumer-oriented innovation as the primary destinations for investment.
Andrew Hastie compares AI to cold-war nuclear arms race and warns Australia may fall behind
Liberal MP says Australia risks sovereignty and strategic independence being ‘constrained by the AI superpowers reshaping the global order’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says Australia should dramatically scale up investment in artificial intelligence to preserve strategic independence and warns the country risks being “a supplicant state” tethered to the US in an era of possible hot conflict with China. In a major address to Liberal members in Sydney on Monday night, the shadow minister for industry and sovereign capability likened the development of AI to the nuclear arms race of the cold-war era and proposed Australia position itself as a technology hub in the southern hemisphere. Continue reading...
Ctrl+AI+Reg - 15 June 2026 - Ctrl+AI+Reg
See fuller updates in the ‘Global Updates’ tab in the Global AI Regulation Tracker (English version | Chinese version) ... 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 [14 June 2026] UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks UK carve-out from Trump’s export control ban on Anthropic Fable and Mythos models: It is reported ...
US bans foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable
A 'trusted partner' of Anthropic and US government reportedly raised security concerns around Mythos and Fable. Read more: US bans foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable
PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data
Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens
Geopolitics Is Now a Cybersecurity Problem - GovInfoSecurity
How satellite communications and mobile-dependent technologies are creating new security dependencies; The need for a deliberate cost-benefit calculation when adopting artificial intelligence. Garson has been teaching courses on international conflict resolution and international security at University College London since 2010. She has advised global leaders on cyber risks and resilience policy, the geopolitics of the internet, space, AI ...
Anthropic suspends latest AI models after US blocks access to foreigners
Trump administration directs company to limit access to foreign nationals on national security grounds
r/Anthropic on Reddit: US blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models, Axios reports
Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models | Anthropic CEO warned that AI should support defense in all ways "except those which would make us more like our autocratic adversaries."
China-U.S. Coopetition in AI’s Military Applications - Qi Haotian - CHINA US Focus
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an indispensable part of the military relationship between China and the United States, with both countries viewing it as a key factor in shaping the future balance of military power.
The Iran War: A War with or against the AI Sector?
The 2026 Iran War marks the dawn of hyperwar, accelerating military AI integration while disrupting critical upstream supply chains like Qatari liquid helium. This dual physical and financial pressure creates a shared strategic crisis for both the U.S. and Chinese AI sectors.
Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military drones find their location in war zones. Pokémon Go, a 2016 augmented reality mobile game, allowed players to find and catch Pokémon in the real world using the cameras on their mobile phones, and exploded in popularity. In 2018, the company reported having more than 800m downloads worldwide. Continue reading...
India Boosts Quantum Research and AI with New Labs at MNIT Jaipur
MNIT Jaipur is set to host new labs focused on quantum computing and AI, enhancing India's semiconductor sector and national security.
Ukraine-focused DefenceTech fund Varangians closes €9.1 million in Stockholm
Stockholm-based Varangians, a new DefenceTech-focused investment fund co-founded by Beetroot founder Andreas Flodström, has closed at over €9.1 million (100 million kronor) to back Ukraine’s DefenceTech ecosystem. The fund has already completed investments in Ukrainian DefenceTech companies including Norda Dynamics, Himera and Sine Engineering, while a fourth portfolio company remains confidential. Varangians Co-founders Pär Lager, […]
Ukraine's defence AI chief predicts 'new paradigm' of warfare | Reuters
Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up decisions on the battlefield, a senior Ukrainian official said.
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for first time
Reports indicate that fully autonomous drones have been used to kill human soldiers for the first time.
Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate
PRC eyes are watching you
AI Researchers Must Help Lead Arms Control to Mitigate Military AI Risks
arXiv:2606.11533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of AI capabilities compels researchers and the public to be more aware of its potential worldwide impact. A pressing near-term concern is the regulation of military AI applications. Armament manufacturers and defense contractors are increasingly investing in AI capabilities and forging partnerships with AI companies, creating a burgeoning coalition that demands military leaders, arms control diplomacy experts, and AI researchers collaborate to ensure a safer future. While AI researchers often focus on the long-term implications of superintelligent AI, this approach may not adequately address the immediate challenges posed by AI in military applications. Success requires acknowledging and mitigating the emerging risks of frontier AI models that plan to be integrated into defense applications, like military AI systems. Arms control has reduced past catastrophic risks, so lessons learned from nuclear deterrence can guide AI safety and security research towards innovations in verification and diplomacy. AI researchers, however, must assist in leading the technical research that clearly defines and alleviates instability in military settings. Given these new responsibilities and the lack of sufficiently reliable solutions, we argue that AI researchers must take a leading role in advancing arms control research to minimize risk in military AI applications.
Getting frontier access - Simon Grimm
Getting frontier access - Simon Grimm # Simon Grimm SubscribeSign in # Getting frontier access ### Frontier AI is becoming ever more powerful. AI Security Institutes are best positioned to secure European governments’ reliable access. Jun 10, 2026 6 3 Share Here are some ways the American government is using frontier AI: Cyber offense: Anthropic’s Mythos, an AI model that has already identified 10,000 high-risk cyber vulnerabilities, is used by the National Security Agency(NSA) to conduct cyberattacks. Cyber defense: The US government is using the same AI model to identify and patch vulnerabilities within its own systems. Warfare: Frontier models are integrated into Palantir’s Project Maven and were used for target prioritization in the US airstrike campaign on Iran. Last week, the White House ordered all national-security agencies to accelerate AI adoption further. Already,
From Chip War to System Control: AI Geopolitics in the First Half of 2026 | Geopolitics of AI - Anastasios (Tasos) Tassos - Medium
# From Chip War to System Control: AI Geopolitics in the First Half of 2026 | Geopolitics of AI - Anastasios (Tasos) Tassos - Medium Author: Anastasios (Tasos) Tassos Published: 2026-06-10T10:02:35.136000+00:00 Source: medium.com (medium.com) Language: en ## Story From Chip War to System Control: AI Geopolitics in the First Half of 2026 | Geopolitics of AI - Anastasios (Tasos) Tassos - Medium Sign up Get app Sign up # From Chip War to System Control: AI Geopolitics in the First Half of 2026 | Geopolitics of AI 2 days ago -- Share Press enter or click to view image in full size TL;DR — AI geopolitics is shifting from a chip war to a contest over system control — compute, infrastructure, energy, models, standards, and operational deployment. Three signals defined the first half of 2026: compute governance replaced chip denial, AI infrastructure became geopolitical terrain, and
AI Governance Just Became a National Security Issue
AI Governance Just Became a National Security Issue # Toby's Substack SubscribeSign in # AI Governance Just Became a National Security Issue Jun 10, 2026 Share Back in March, the White House intimated that AI deployment speed was more important than governance: --- Now, two White House actions released in the first week of June point to a major shift in the way the U.S. government is thinking about artificial intelligence. The first, an Executive Order titled Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, focuses on AI-enabled cybersecurity, frontier model deployment, critical infrastructure, and federal coordination. The second, National Security Presidential Memorandum 11, focuses on the use of AI across the national security enterprise, including defense, intelligence, procurement, testing, assurance, and accountability. (The White House) The immediate r
Taiwan Weighs Tighter AI Chip Export Controls Targeting China to Align with US - Bloomberg
Taiwan authorities are considering much stricter export controls on AI chip sales to China to further align with US measures, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to address semiconductor smuggling that risks drawing a rebuke from Beijing.
Taiwan Mulls Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China to Align With US - CNBC TV18
Taiwan weighs tougher AI chip export controls to China, aligning with US curbs, as it tackles smuggling, tests ties with Beijing, and protects its tech sector
US Tightens AI Chip Export Rules as Global Tech Cold War Intensifies in 2026 - Bold News
The United States has introduced a fresh set of export controls targeting advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips and semiconductor manu
Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Data collected from Pokémon Go players has reportedly been used to train navigation technology for military drones.
Leonardo’s New CEO Sees Green Light for Space Venture Next Year
Leonardo SpA’s new chief executive officer expects European regulatory approval for its satellite venture with Airbus SE and Thales SA by the end of next year, clearing the way for one of Europe’s most ambitious defense and space projects.
Finland’s ICEYE raises €450 million in landmark round for Europe’s dual-use SpaceTech sector
Espoo-based ICEYE, an innovator in sovereign intelligence from space, has raised €450 million in a primary Series F funding round to meet growing demand for space-based intelligence, defence and resilience solutions – valuing the company at over €10 billion. The round was led by General Atlantic. Additional investors include Solidium, Tesi, Varma, Ilmarinen, Lifeline Ventures, […]
Pentagon restores Alibaba, Baidu and BYD to Chinese military groups blacklist
Three companies reinstated as US national security risk after sudden removal in February
AI Sovereignty: A Qualitative Model of Strategic Competition as AI Becomes an Instrument of National Power
arXiv:2606.07245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI sovereignty is the extent to which a nation independently controls its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The race toward ever-more-sophisticated frontier AI models is of increasing strategic importance, with nations considering how AI might improve their economic situations, competitive advantage, and overall national power. However, the costs of AI sovereignty are enormous, and we lack definitions and conceptual models to navigate evolving AI sovereignty dynamics. We address this gap with definitions relevant to AI sovereignty, along with a first-of-its-kind qualitative model that incorporates micro, meso, and macro contributors. Model-based qualitative forecasts highlight competitive dynamics and evolving potential for AI-driven national power. The model identifies key leverage points that nations can use to enhance their own growth or degrade an adversary's, including consideration of accelerators, electricity, water, data sets and skilled workforce. These leverage points can be activated at strategic and operational levels through both direct kinetic actions, such as Iran's targeting of data centers with drones, and indirect non-kinetic effects including cyber, space, information, economic coercion and diplomacy. If our assumptions and hypotheses are valid, this strategic competition may come to define how nations improve their economic situations, competitive advantage, and overall national power in the 21st Century.
Why Lightspeed and Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport bet $37 million on an AI-powered cyberattacker
After frontier AI models exposed thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities, startup A is building autonomous defenses designed for an era of AI-native attackers.
New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare
Russia paused surveillance system after killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader exposed how AI can be used on CCTV data to target enemies
Attack Selection in Agentic AI Control Evaluations Meaningfully Decreases Safety
arXiv:2606.06529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An attacker that strategically chooses when to attack is much harder to catch than one that attacks indiscriminately. AI control is a safety framework for deploying capable but untrusted AI agents under the oversight of a weaker, trusted monitor and a limited human audit budget. Control evaluations stress-test these protocols by pitting a red-team attack policy against the blue-team monitor, but current evaluations typically assume attackers that do not strategically select when to attack. We study this capability, attack selection, in agentic settings by decomposing attack decisions into a start policy, which decides when an attacker should attack, and a stop policy, which decides when an attacker should abort an ongoing attack. Across two agentic settings, BashArena and LinuxArena, both policies substantially lower measured empirical safety without changing the underlying attack capability. At a 1% audit budget, our start policy reduces safety by 20pp on both BashArena and LinuxArena, and our stop policy reduces safety by 20pp on BashArena and 28pp on LinuxArena. These reductions should be interpreted as upper bounds on the effect of attack selection. Existing control evaluations may therefore yield overly optimistic safety estimates against selective attackers. We recommend that future evaluations, system cards, and safety cases elicit attack selection to produce more realistic safety estimates.
The Compute Coalition: How to Build the Future of AI in the Free World | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
AI infrastructure will shape the global balance of power. Democracies have a narrow window to pull ahead.
Trump Issues AI National Security Directive
Trump has issued a directive to accelerate AI adoption across national security agencies while updating governance and oversight policies.
China's AI Talent Poaching Signals New Global Race, Shifts Focus to Practical AI Deployment
China is aggressively recruiting AI talent from U.S. firms, signaling a strategic shift in the global AI race from chip dominance to talent competition.
AI companies have a responsibility to safeguard models against exploitation, Pentagon chief technology officer says
After Trump's recent executive order on AI, Emil Michael said that the weaponization of models is concerning.
Countering terrorist propaganda in the age of AI - Atlantic Council
More people are being exposed to violent propaganda online, and the time between seeing such content, recruitment by a terrorist organization, and action is getting shorter. Counter-terrorism today thus must mean limiting the spread of terrorist content.
Trump calls for military to accelerate use of AI while protecting Americans - The Washington Post
President Donald Trump is calling for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence
Trump Administration Divided Over AI Chip Export Loophole for Chinese Firms - News and Statistics - IndexBox
Internal Trump administration dispute over China tech policy: officials debate whether AI chip export restrictions were unintentionally narrowed, creating a loophole for Chinese firms to buy advanced Nvidia chips overseas.
Condoleezza Rice Warns That the AI Race Between the United States and China Will Define the World Order - Funds Society
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that the world is undergoing a profound transition away from the international order built after World War II, and that artificial intelligence (AI) represents the greatest technological disruption within that reconfiguration.
US DoD reaffirmed Anthropic's supply chain risk designation, appeals court told
The US Defense Department upheld Anthropic's supply chain risk designation, but the government told a US appeals court that the court should still resolve the company's petition challenging the label.
Trump’s New AI Order Raises the Stakes in China-US Tech Competition
Advanced AI models are no longer treated simply as commercial products; they are increasingly regarded as strategic assets linked to national power.
US National Security Agency using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks
Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model
Tech is National Security | StartupHub.ai
Allies want to co-develop technology, not just buy it, marking a strategic shift in global tech security and collaboration.
Agentic AI Is Transforming Defense, But Only Secure IT Infrastructure Will Maximize It
June 2 AI order highlights classified deployment risks, requiring secure data, access, and networks to preserve mission trust.
Dark Path: An Analysis of the Belt & Road Initiative in El Salvador
arXiv:2606.04832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is a concerted effort from Ministries under the People's Republic of China (PRC) to diplomatically and economically impose its will upon other nations. El Salvador is a US partner and a beneficiary of foreign investment under the BRI. Recent changes to Salvadoran law do not address the implied risks to the nation's supply-chain and cyber infrastructure. This work addresses the gap by exploring previously limited analysis on BRI activities, its intersection with Salvadoran law, and the national security risks introduced by supply-chain reliance from the BRI. This exploratory study examined a portion of the William & Mary AidData dataset filtered on El Salvador, social media posts, news articles, white papers, and law published by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. The analysis suggests that the BRI poses a national security and supply-chain risk to El Salvador through influential-subterfuge, loss of digital sovereignty, which contradicts the State Cybersecurity Agency (ACE) and existing Salvadoran laws. This study provides a foundational understanding and regional context for future research.
The AI Competition Will Be Won in the Intelligence Layer | RealClearDefense
Recent bipartisan efforts on the U.S. Tech PATH Act have introduced a larger question: How can the United States and its allies make trusted digital infrastructure available before other technology de
Trump administration to ask US AI firms to voluntarily submit models for cybersecurity tests | Reuters
Open AI CEO Sam Altman said the order "gets the balance right". "The US should lead on AI by continuing to develop the very best models, making sure they're safe, and getting cyber tools into the hands of trusted defenders," Altman said.
Can autonomous AI-powered killer drones take morality onboard?
While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? The question is becoming ever more pressing as governments and the defence industry acknowledge that drone systems will play an increasingly crucial role in future warfare. With drones being deployed in huge numbers in the Ukraine war and AI being used to assist bombing missions in the Iran conflict, there is an expectation among some observers that weapons will have to operate with increased operational autonomy, which means they will need something approximating a moral framework. Continue reading...
The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 5 key points in Trump’s new AI order Less than two weeks after scrapping an executive order on AI, President Donald Trump signed a new one on Tuesday. Promising to promote…
US President Trump signs AI cybersecurity order with voluntary pre-release vetting
US President Trump signed an executive order regarding AI cybersecurity that includes provisions for voluntary pre-release vetting of models.
The battle for AI sovereignty – GIS Reports
Governments are increasingly treating AI as a critical technology, reshaping the relationship between states and technology firms.
New bill aims to regulate military uses of AI - Defense One
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand also wants to establish a clear chain of human accountability for AI on the battlefield.
Strategic Preemption Under Shared Catastrophic Risk: The Suicide Region and the Race to Artificial General Intelligence
arXiv:2512.07526v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We analyze a continuous-time preemption game with shared catastrophic externalities. When the cost of catastrophe is embedded in both players' payoffs, the risk term cancels out in the equilibrium indifference condition. This creates a "suicide region" where competitive pressures force rational agents to deploy despite negative risk-adjust
AI Integrity: Defending Against Backdoors and Secret Loyalties
arXiv:2606.00036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI integrity means ensuring AI systems are free from secret or unauthorized modifications that could compromise their behavior. Integrity represents one pillar of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad in information security: confidentiality preserves secrecy of sensitive information, integrity ensures data remain authentic and uncorrupted, and availability keeps systems operational when needed. While confidentiality receives some attention through efforts like RAND's Securing AI Model Weights report, and availability is naturally prioritized by market forces, AI integrity receives insufficient attention despite its importance to national security.
Trump signs an executive order that invites vetting of top AI models for national security risks - The Washington Post
President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology
Executive order sets voluntary cyber reviews for advanced AI – Roll Call
Developers of frontier artificial intelligence models will have the option to voluntarily submit new technologies for review by federal cybersecurity agencies under a new executive order that comes after President Donald Trump backed away from an expected order last month.
Sector Snapshot: Defense Startup Funding Hits An All-Time Record As VCs Begin To Eye Exits
Already this year, more than $14.6 billion in venture investment has gone into companies in Crunchbase’s military, national security and law enforcement categories, blowing past the sector's previous annual record of $9.6 billion raised in all of 2025.
As the Pentagon Pushes for Battlefield AI, Some Military Leaders Urge Caution - SecurityWeek
AI’s use in the military is part of the administration’s larger push to grow the capability it sees as a unique American advantage.
The US is struggling with its adversaries over the future of AI. Here’s how to win. - Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council's Commission on AI offers a roadmap to harness the transformative potential of the technology while actively managing its risks.
US expands AI chip restrictions on Chinese firms overseas
US expands AI chip restrictions globally, blocking Chinese firms overseas from accessing advanced semiconductors amid escalating rivalry.
Allies and partners - Atlantic Council
Geopolitical competition in AI is accelerating, and alliances are a force multiplier.
Pentagon's Ambitious AI Push Sparks Debate Among Military Leaders, ETEnterpriseai
However, concerns about safety and ethical implications are surfacing. ... A dispute with AI company Anthropic highlights these tensions, with the Pentagon seeking AI to enhance warfighter decisions. The Trump administration is pushing to unleash the power of artificial intelligence for the US military while facing calls to put up guardrails around the rapidly developing ...
AI innovation - Atlantic Council
AI Innovation is reshaping global power dynamics, becoming foundational to economic and national strength.
Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation
Mach Industries has reached a $1.8 billion valuation, marking a 4x increase in just one year.
US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China | Reuters
The unexpected guidance suggests that the United States' best AI chips may have been making their way to the subsidiaries of Chinese AI firms based in places such as Malaysia despite broader U.S.
AI Loss of Control Incident Management: Response & Resilience
arXiv:2605.30406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research demonstrating AI systems exhibiting deception and shutdown resistance suggests that AI loss of control (LOC) is an urgent policy concern , yet current literature focuses almost exclusively on alignment and prevention. To address this gap, this paper introduces a foundational framework and taxonomy for managing catastrophic AI LOC incidents. The taxonomy's first level distinguishes between scenarios where regaining control is 'extremely costly' versus 'impossible'. While impossible scenarios demand immediate resilience investments to fundamentally restrict an AI's attack surface , extremely costly scenarios require active incident management via Containment and Threat Neutralization. The framework further categorizes these manageable events into accidental LOC (requiring automated circuit-breaker responses) and adversarial LOC (requiring graduated escalatory measures). By mapping three severity classes to specific scenario matrices, this paper provides a concrete, proportional guide for managing unprecedented AI risks.
What Middle Powers Risk In AI-Powered War | TechPolicy.Press
While great powers develop military AI while resisting binding constraints, middle powers are living with strategic vulnerability, writes Nishtha Gupta.
Why the agentic AI-powered ROC is the new frontline of defense | Federal News Network
If one agent finds a threat, it ... mission impact. The threat intelligence feed: Agent-based AI relies on strong connections to threat databases. These agents make decisions a human would normally make — such as updating firewalls or applying IPS signatures — based on specific system needs, whether ...
Pentagon Battles To Deploy AI For Military Despite Clamor For Guardrails | IBTimes
The Pentagon has roped in Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX to provide resources to help "augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments.
Pentagon's AI push faces caution from military leaders over battlefield use
US Special Operations chief warns against unchecked use of artificial intelligence in lethal operations as Trump administration accelerates military adoption of the technology
Data centers could help determine who wins the next war, and a shortage of compute would be 'catastrophic,' retired general says | Fortune
"Nearly every function in the military depends on the ability to store, move, process, secure and exploit vast quantities of data at speed and scale."
How Iran’s military harnesses western AI
Western AI models are turbocharging Tehran’s cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch attacks
Naver Launches Defense AI Unit to Tap Sovereign AI Market - Seoul Economic Daily
Naver is launching a dedicated defense AI organization at Naver Cloud to enter Korea's sovereign AI market, leveraging its omnimodal AI technology for military data analysis and decision support.
Operation Jailbreak: lessons from Ukraine on making weapons talk to each other
Defence companies join with Army personnel in hackathon to apply AI to ‘interoperability’ puzzle
Drone start-up Stark set for €2.5bn valuation in new fundraising
German company aiming to secure at least €300mn from investors
SpaceX Wins $4 Billion Contract for US Golden Dome Satellites
SpaceX has won a contract for more than $4 billion to build satellites to track foreign aircraft and missiles as part of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome defensive shield.
Vance says military should never let AI make life-and-death decisions - The Washington Post
Vice President JD Vance said he is concerned about how artificial intelligence will be used in warfare and urged the military on Thursday to be cautious about the technology, remarks he made as the Pentagon moves forward with using AI on the ...
Want AI Regulation? Sign a US-China AI Deal First - The National Interest
AI competition without guardrails is creating a dangerous geopolitical race dynamic that increasingly resembles an unregulated nuclear arms buildup.
Kaal Bhairava goes to Europe: Why Portugal deal is gamechanger for India’s defence sector - The Times of India
News News: India’s AI combat aircraft Kaal Bhairava will now be manufactured in Portugal after Indian AI warfare company Flying Wedge Defence and Aerospace (FWDA.
U.S. Science Panel Prioritizes National Security and Countering Chinese Influence
The panel aligns technology with national security to counter Chinese influence, utilizing Pam Bondi's legal expertise to protect intellectual property and maintain hegemony.
Ex-Shield AI Worker Sues Over ‘Profane, Egregious’ Acts by Senior Official
A new lawsuit accuses a senior official at Shield AI of “profane, egregious acts” of sexual harassment and alleges fraud and safety issues involving other workers at the defense tech startup.
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload
Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government
Does Distributed Training Undermine Compute Governance?
arXiv:2605.29359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compute governance proposals often rely on the assumption that frontier AI training requires large, detectable computing clusters. However, recent advances in distributed training algorithms could allow developers to conduct frontier-scale training on distributed agglomerations of hardware, rather than needing large datacenter facilities. Developers
Ukraine is turning the tables
The country’s war effort was at a nadir. But mass drone production has come to the rescue
Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion | CSO Online
A new report from RUSI focuses on how AI models are enabling regimes such as North Korea and Iran to execute cyber operations while evading detection.
The new face of warfare: how AI and hybrid conflict reshape global security - Trend.Az
For this reason, media strategy, digital narratives, and public opinion management are now essential components of national security planning. Economic instruments are also playing an increasingly central role. Sanctions, technology export controls, financial restrictions, and supply-chain leverage have become powerful tools of geopolitical ...
Pentagon Seeks Nearly $30B for AI Supercomputing Modernization
The Pentagon has requested $29.5 billion in FY 2027 funding to build secure AI data centers and deploy advanced GPUs and AI supercomputers.
Taiwan Suspects Nvidia Chips Smuggled to China Via Japan
Taiwan prosecutors suspect that three individuals successfully smuggled at least one shipment of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China after first exporting them to Japan, people familiar with the matter said.
AI is an arms race, and the US wants $9 billion in Nvidia superchips to keep up | ZDNET
The government is playing catch-up, but Nvidia has a lifeline.
Nvidia's Taiwan Investment Signals A New AI Supply Chain Reality - Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), N - Benzinga
Meanwhile, Huawei’s May 25 ... semiconductor engineering approach, targeting Ascend data center chips by around 2030, signals that China’s challenge to Nvidia’s AI hardware dominance is accelerating. Nvidia's Taiwan commitment also carries a direct implication for its own shareholders. Spending $150 billion annually in a single geography means supply chain disruptions ...
AI Daily Update May-27-2026. Global AI highlights (last ~24 hours) | by Stephen Stanley | May, 2026 | Medium
AI Daily Update May-27-2026. Global AI highlights (last ~24 hours) | by Stephen Stanley | May, 2026 | Medium Sign up Get app Sign up # AI Daily Update May-27-2026 4 min read 1 day ago -- Share Press enter or click to view image in full size ## Global AI highlights (last ~24 hours) • AI warfare concerns intensify as military deployment accelerates Source: The Verge | Published: 27 May 2026 Context: The Verge reports growing concern over the operational deployment of AI-enabled military systems following expanded use of AI-supported targeting, surveillance, and battlefield analysis capabilities linked to projects such as the Pentagon’s Maven Smart System. The article highlights increasing tensions between defence priorities, frontier AI companies, and attempts to impose ethical restrictions on autonomous systems. Why it matters: The debate around AI governance is increasingly
UK spy chief labels AI ‘unstoppable force’ with offensive, defensive ramifications for cyberspace | CyberScoop
With AI rapidly reconfiguring global conflict, the U.K.’s top spy chief warns that everyday technology is being weaponized just below the threshold of traditional warfare.
Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion
RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale
There Aren’t Enough GPUs on Earth — Let Alone for Space
SpaceX’s IPO filing warns that current AI chip supply may be insufficient for its long-term orbital compute ambitions
Gulf States Double Down on Sovereign AI as Cyber Threats Escalate: How the UAE Is Securing Critical National Infrastructure
UAE’s focus shifts from AI adoption to securing national digital control
The US and China Must Unite on AI To Stop the Next Bio Threat | Opinion - Newsweek
On biosecurity, the U.S. and China face a rare reality: cooperation is not a concession—it is the only way to compete safely.
CERT-In Recommends 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks
SANSFIRE 2026 in D.C. brings 50+ courses, AI-focused sessions, and NetWars. July 13–18. Save $500. ... AI collapsed human response window and turned remote access into fastest path to breach. ... Lead the future of cybersecurity risk management with an online Master’s from Georgetown.
Strategic Stalemates: The Paradox of Export Controls in the U.S.-China AI Race
arXiv:2605.23475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Export control is a policy and legal tool to protect national interests by regulating exports of sensitive goods and technology to foreign nations. It has become central to U.S.-China tech rivalry, especially in AI. Controls cover advanced chips, capital, personnel, and critical minerals for semiconductors. Since October 2022, the U.S. BIS has progr
Pope, urging AI regulation, warns some weapons now beyond human control | Reuters
VATICAN CITY, May 25 (Reuters) - Pope Leo urged governments to slow down and closely regulate the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.
Strategic Coercion Within Alliances: The Greenland Sovereignty Game as an AI Stress Test
arXiv:2605.22841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What happens when the strongest alliance member pressures a weaker member over territory and strategic control? We examine the Greenland sovereignty crisis as a stress test for LLM geopolitics, centered on the 2019-2026 U.S. push to acquire Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. The crisis nests two collective-action problems: Arctic strategic control and whether NATO can enforce alliance norms against the dominant member. We develop three games (asymmetric coercion; a NATO assurance game with a critical-mass tipping point; a triadic extensive-form game with social preferences) and test them with a multi-agent simulation in which eight frontier LLMs play six geopolitical roles (United States, Denmark, Greenland, NATO, Russia, Canada) across 3,604 completed games and 108,120 action observations. Using inverse game theory, we recover each model's structural utility parameters (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, eta) for material self-interest, reciprocity, inequality aversion, norm respect, and commitment consistency. Three findings stand out. First, all eight models become more escalatory under coercion framing (four-action escalation rises from 10.7% to 28.6%). Second, Chinese-origin models show systematically different power-weight profiles from Western-origin models when playing the U.S. role. Third, peaceful US acquisition emerges in only 1.9% of clean games and only 3 of 8 frontier models ever achieve it, most prominently DeepSeek V3.2, which executes a stable five-round playbook through the metropole. Prompts emphasizing jus cogens and self-determination reduce escalation back near baseline in the English-only confirmatory sample; multilingual contrasts are reported as exploratory sensitivity checks. We position this as a structural benchmark for LLM geopolitical behavior, complementing action-frequency benchmarks.
AI and defence procurement: the question of sovereignty and speed - The Hill Times - The Hill Times
AI is nothing without data. The defence procurement mandate must answer the real sovereignty question of whether the systems powering this country’s most critical national capabilities will remain governed by Canadian interests, protected under Canadian standards and be resilient when pressure ...
Embodied AI tests limits of current governance frameworks
Autonomous AI systems are moving into robots and critical infrastructure, creating governance risks that existing frameworks were not designed to manage.
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship
Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors
The White House is asking for $9 billion to buy AI chips for spies. | The Verge
The New York Times reports the CIA and the NSA lack the computing capacity to run the latest AI models. The White House has approved a request for $9 billion to buy cutting-edge chips and build infrastructure to support Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell superchip. But Congress needs to approve the funds.
The new arms race in computing power
Military capability depends increasingly on data centres. Now governments outpaced in AI are looking to experimental technologies
South Korea aims for 50% domestic defense semiconductor supply by 2029
South Korea announced a national plan to raise domestic production of defense semiconductors to 50% by 2029, targeting heavy reliance on US and Taiwan supply chains to bolster national security. The initiative, unveiled at the 2026 Advanced Strategic Semiconductor Innovation Conference, covers ...
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence at the Strategic Frontier
AI in defense shifts from tools to human-AI teaming; interaction-centered design improves trust, decisions, and security outcomes in complex environments.
Detecting Offensive Cyber Agents: A Detection-in-Depth Approach
arXiv:2605.21956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents can now orchestrate cyberattacks. This development is already increasing the speed and scale of cyber attacks, decreasing attack costs, and improving the operational autonomy of cyber capabilities. To defend against these emerging threats, actors must first develop the capability to detect them. This report frames the offensive cyber agent detection challenge by outlining the coming detection gap between offensive cyber agents and traditional cyber capabilities; introducing detection-in-depth, a strategic framework to guide policymakers and defenders responding to this detection gap; and presents five actionable detection mechanisms to support policymakers, industry, and defenders when putting this strategic framework into practice. These include (1) Agent Identifiers for Critical Infrastructure,(2) Agent Honeypots; (3) AI-Automated Alert Analysis and Triage: systems that use AI to filter, prioritize, and interpret the growing volume of detection signals expected from autonomous cyber operations; (4) An Agentic Security Alert Standard: A reporting standard model that providers can use to communicate agentic threats, improving the speed, consistency, and actionability of reports; (5) An Agentic Cybersecurity Exchange (ACE): an institution modeled on the Global Signal Exchange that brings together model and cloud providers to detect offensive cyber agent threats at their origin point and coordinate ecosystem-wide agentic threat disruption.
U.S. Invests $2 Billion and Takes Stake in Quantum Firms
The Trump administration said it had signed preliminary deals for equity stakes in nine quantum computing companies.
Backchaining Loss of Control Mitigations from Mission-Specific Benchmarks in National Security
arXiv:2605.21095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affordances and permissions are promising and timely safety levers for mitigating Loss of Control (LoC) threats in high-stakes deployment contexts, such as national security. Deployers in defense and intelligence could rely on several approaches to identify which affordances and permissions should be prioritized, such as structured threat modelling, pre-deployment agentic evaluations, post-deployment continuous monitoring, and AI safety cases. This paper proposes a complementary and empirical methodology that leverages existing use-case-specific benchmarks: backchaining LoC mitigations from the errors an AI system makes on national security benchmarks. The approach proceeds in three steps and allows national security deployers to start building LoC mitigations today, from evidence they can generate themselves. First, deployers evaluate AI systems on mission-specific benchmarks approximating real use-cases. Second, deployers concentrate on the incorrect responses that the AI system provides to the benchmark questions, and backchain the affordances and permissions that would enable the AI system to cause downstream harm if it pursued the actions described in the incorrect answers. Third, deployers intervene selectively on those affordances and permissions, bottlenecking the paths to harm while preserving the AI system's ability to carry out the correct action. We illustrate this methodology through a demonstrative benchmark question on derivative security classification.
China, Russia pledge closer AI, cybersecurity ties during Putin Visit
Following a visit by President Vladimir Putin, China and Russia have pledged to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence technologies and strengthen efforts to combat cybercrime.
AI, Cybersecurity Education, and the Defense of America’s Digital Border | eSecurity Planet
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that is forcing educators, businesses, and governments to rethink workforce development and national defense strategies. During a recent discussion with cybersecurity entrepreneur and ConnectSecure Chairman, Arnie Bellini, key themes emerged around the evolution of cyber threats...
The Growth Of Dual-Use By Design Research In Europe: Export Control Risks And Challenges – Analysis
By Lauriane Héau Both European states and the European Union (EU) are trying to accelerate and support national rearmament and
White House briefs AI firms on plans for model review, the Information reports | Reuters
The White House's Office of the National Cyber Director hosted a briefing for leading AI companies on a planned executive order that would empower intelligence and other government agencies to review advanced AI models before their release, the Information reported on Wednesday.
Xi, Trump sidestep chip curbs while reviving AI security talks
Discussion of chip export controls was notably absent from the recent Trump-Xi summit, reflecting in part Beijing's reduced urgency to secure relief from US curbs as China accelerates its push for self-sufficiency.
CIA, Industry Officials Warn Advanced AI Models Reshaping Federal Cybersecurity
CIA executive Dan Richard said Anthropic's Mythos model represents a "reflection point" for agencies managing sensitive data.
South Korea's defense chips 99% import-dependent as photonic supply chain crisis looms
Photonic semiconductors have become indispensable to modern defense — prized for their ultra-high-speed data processing, high capacity, low power consumption, and exceptional reliability. Yet despite their growing strategic importance, South Korea remains almost entirely dependent on foreign ...
White House Briefs AI Companies on Plan to Review Models Before Release — The Information
The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director hosted a briefing Tuesday for companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Reflection AI on a planned executive order on AI that will empower intelligence and other government agencies to review advanced models before the models are released, ...
Drone start-up Helsing set to mount joint bid for military satellite project
German group and OHB plan to build network equipped with AI technology to provide surveillance and reconnaissance
GRID: Graph Representation of Intelligence Data for Security Text Knowledge Graph Construction
arXiv:2605.16714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Security knowledge graphs can provide computable external memory for security agents, but constructing them from long-form cyber threat intelligence (CTI) remains difficult: LLMs often lack grounded security-domain knowledge, and end-to-end document-to-graph training is hard to supervise with cheap, stable rewards. We present GRID (Graph Representation of Intelligence Data), an end-to-end framework for security text knowledge graph construction. GRID first builds security-domain supervision from CTI articles by creating traceable article-graph alignments through graph extraction and knowledge-graph-conditioned text revision. It then turns document-to-graph learning into a scripted task bank combining four-option multi-select questions with triple-level regex matching targets, yielding more stable task-specific rewards than repeatedly scoring full graph outputs with an LLM judge. Using this supervision pipeline, we train two Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-based 4B extractors: a primary Task-bank Reward model and a secondary End2End Reward model with LLM-as-judge precision/recall rewards. On 249 CTI articles from GRID, CASIE, CTINexus, MalKG, and SecureNLP, the Task-bank Reward model with the ontology-guided GRID extraction pipeline reaches 84.62% source-averaged precision, 64.91% source-averaged recall, and 68.53% Avg F1, achieving the best source-averaged recall and near-top Avg F1 with lower token usage and deployment cost. The End2End Reward model reaches 76.91% precision, 53.85% recall, and 58.06% Avg F1. Further analyses show that task-bank rewards can be built once offline and reused across later post-training runs, outperforming online End2End LLM-as-judge reward and weaker alternatives such as Choice-only Reward and End2End SFT without RL.
The Power of the AI Chip: The Techno-statecraft Approach in the US-China Great Power Rivalry - Modern Diplomacy
The recent H200 chip export authorisation marks a new form of power signalling in the technopolitics sphere.
AI-powered cyber threats overwhelm human defenders, forcing critical infrastructure operators toward automated security - Industrial Cyber
Earlier this month, the U.S. ... adoption of agentic artificial intelligence (agentic AI), outlining cybersecurity risks tied to deploying these systems. The document comes as critical infrastructure and defense sectors increasingly adopt agentic AI to support mission-critical ...