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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 ...
Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare
The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following a career in the Army’s Special Operations Command, says his fundamental…
Akin Space Law, Regulation and Policy Update | May 18, 2026 | Akin
Another week, another reminder that space and defense come with sky‑high costs. Congress is pushing back on a proposed 23% cut to NASA’s budget with a $24.4 billion plan, while the Trump administration has requested congressional approval for a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
As chip industry chases AI, U.S. national labs look to newcomers for supercomputers | Reuters
In a nondescript building on Kirtland Air Force Base on the high desert of New Mexico, liquid-cooled supercomputers gurgle and hum their way through some of the most complex math problems the U.S. government seeks to solve: simulating how hypersonic nuclear weapons would move through ...
SAIC, Google Expand AI Deployment for Mission Environments
SAIC and Google Public Sector aim to move AI beyond pilot projects and experimentation into operational use.
AI Has Broken Containment - The Atlantic
Once-speculative concerns about the technology have now become pressing matters.
Scaling Intelligence: The Security Foundations Beneath America's AI Ambitions Are Cracking | Council on Foreign Relations
Artificial intelligence diffusion is stress-testing the assumptions that underpin U.S. cybersecurity. Inspecting those foundations isn’t a precaution against scaling AI—it’s the precondition for doing it with confidence.
Sweeping the strait: the companies gearing up to clear the Gulf of mines
New generation of uncrewed vessels could help restore traffic in vital shipping route
Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities - Security Boulevard
The AISI has documented something that should reorder every CISO’s threat model and every board’s risk conversation.
US-China summit leaves AI chip talks unresolved but eases trade tensions
Leaders from the US and China concluded a two-day summit that did not yield breakthroughs on AI chips or technology controls, but did deliver concrete trade measures aimed at cooling tensions. Summit participants discussed Nvidia H200 GPU exports, AI governance, and semiconductor issues, while ...
Verifiable Agentic Infrastructure: Proof-Derived Authorization for Sovereign AI Systems
arXiv:2605.15228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern cloud and enterprise systems rely on identity-centric authorization, assuming that callers possessing valid credentials are safe to execute commands. The emergence of autonomous AI agents invalidates this assumption: agents can generate syntactically valid but semantically unsafe actions, making standing privileges a significant operational risk. This risk becomes especially acute in sovereign AI systems, where autonomous agents may interact with cloud infrastructure, regulated data, financial workflows, and national-scale digital services. Governed mutation substrates reduce this risk by interposing on agent actions: agents submit intents, infrastructure evaluates context and policy, and execution is mediated. However, this shifts the trust boundary: how can the decision to authorize an intent be made verifiable, distributed, and replayable? We introduce a Distributed Trust Framework (DTF), a verification framework for governed mutation systems that computes execution authority from structured, verifiable artifacts. DTF introduces a Justification Proof to encode the admissibility basis of an action, a consensus model for independent evaluation, an ephemeral Execution Identity derived from the approved proof, and an append-only Evidence Chain that preserves the authorization lifecycle. Under stated substrate assumptions, this architecture enforces a compact authorization invariant: no high-stakes execution without a proof object, no derived authority without consensus, and no valid mutation detached from evidence. We define the model, instantiate it over an OpenKedge-based governed mutation substrate, and show how it maps onto cloud-native environments. By shifting authorization from standing identity to proof-derived authority, DTF provides an infrastructure foundation for making agentic execution governable, auditable, and bounded in sovereign AI deployments.
America has a plan to win the AI export race. Industry must deliver
Beijing understood years ago that AI infrastructure is foreign policy. Washington has finally written it down.
Chip export controls not major topic in China talks, US trade rep Greer says | Reuters
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday that U.S. export controls on semiconductor chips were not a major topic of discussions with Chinese officials in Beijing.
The AI Regulation Knife Fight | Lawfare
The AI Regulation Knife Fight | Lawfare --- Meet The Authors The AI Regulation Knife Fight The Trump administration is grappling with whether to give U.S. intelligence agencies a bigger role in the assessment of new artificial intelligence (AI) models, according to the Washington Post. Ideas about AI regulation within the administration appear to be in a state of flux. Politico reported on Tuesday last week that the administration was considering a government vetting process before new models were released. By Thursday, the administration was distancing itself from tighter regulation, and by Friday a lobbyist told Politico that "there is no clarity" because "different factions within the White House have different views about what should happen." Among that chaos, the national cyber director pitched a center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the evaluat
Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028
Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls
Japan moves to address cybersecurity threats from Mythos, frontier AI
Japanese policymakers are considering measures to address cybersecurity threats from frontier AI products like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, with new working groups established to coordinate responses.
Europes ai defence revolution whos leading and what comes next
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How A.I. Was the Elephant in the Room at the Trump-Xi Summit
A.I. did not center in Trump-Xi talks as much as some observers expected, but it nevertheless remains an undercurrent in key geopolitical issues between the U.S. and China.
Ukrainian defence tech revolution has US and Europeans envious
# Ukrainian defence tech revolution has US and Europeans envious Published: 2026-05-15T11:32:30.633000+00:00 ## Summary Ukraine's defence technology has been praised by the US and Europeans for its rapid transformation in warfare. The country is seen as one of the few bright spots in a global strategic picture, following an inconclusive U.S. intervention in Iran that depleted its arsenals and concerns about Europe's readiness for a future war with Russia. The German Defence Minister, Boris Pistorius, and CEO of data integration and analysis giant Palantir, Alex Karp, have also visited Kyiv and signed a data sharing partnership with the Ukrainian military on a new project called "Brave1-Datamine". The advances have coincided with a global leap in artificial intelligence-powered technology that is rewiring military coordination systems. The Pentagon's AI and digital chief, Cameron Stanl
How Fast Is Autonomous AI Cyber Capability Advancing?
Frontier LLMs are advancing rapidly in autonomous cyber tasks, with capabilities doubling every few months. This poses a concrete operational risk that AI leaders must track.
ROK-FORTRESS: Measuring the Effect of Geopolitical Transcreation for National Security and Public Safety
arXiv:2605.14152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluations for large language models (LLMs) increasingly target high-stakes National Security and Public Safety (NSPS) risks, yet multilingual safety is typically assessed through translation-only benchmarks that preserve the underlying scenario, and empirical evidence of how language and geopolitical context interact remains limited to a narrow set of language pairs. We introduce \emph{ROK-FORTRESS} https://huggingface.co/datasets/ScaleAI/ROK-FORTRESS_public, a bilingual, culturally adversarial NSPS benchmark that uses the English--Korean language pair and U.S.--ROK geopolitical axis as a case study, separating the effects of language and geopolitical grounding via a \emph{transcreation matrix}: adversarial intents are evaluated under controlled combinations of (i) English versus Korean language and (ii) U.S.\ versus Korean entities, institutions, and operational details. Each adversarial prompt is paired with a dual-use benign counterpart to quantify over-refusal. Model responses are then scored using calibrated LLM-as-a-judge panels, applying our expert-crafted, prompt-specific binary rubrics. Across a dual-track set of frontier and Korean-optimized models, we find a consistent suppression effect in Korean variants and substantial model-to-model variation in how geopolitical grounding interacts with language. In many models, Korean grounding mitigates the Korean language-driven suppression -- with no model showing significant amplification in the other direction -- indicating that, at least in the English--Korean case, safety behavior is shaped by language-as-risk signals and context interactions that translation-only evaluations miss. The transcreation matrix methodology is designed to generalize to other language--culture pairs.
Nvidia’s Future in China Remains Unclear After Trump-Xi Summit
The standoff comes as Chinese firms increasingly turn to domestic chipmakers like Huawei, in a drive to reduce China’s dependence on Western technologies.
Chipping Away: U.S. Export Controls Strain AI Tech Talks with China | Technology
U.S. and China trade discussions in Beijing skirted the topic of semiconductor chip export controls, reflecting ongoing tensions. No deliveries of Nvidia's advanced chips have been made despite approvals. Talks also included potential AI cooperation amid rivalry and distrust.
US-China Tech Trade & Export Controls with Fabian Villalobos
US and Chinese leaders in Beijing, scheduled for approximately 24 hours from the broadcast. Attention is drawn to the Korean equity market, which has rebounded from early losses largely due to positive movement in Samsung Electronics shares. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who joined President Trump on Air Force One en route to Beijing, signaling the importance of technology discussions at the summi
The New Era of AI-Driven Zero-Day Exploits and Malware - Geeky Gadgets
Explore the mechanics of AI-enabled ... threats. Gain insight into the geopolitical implications of AI-driven cyber operations and examine strategies for mitigating these risks. This guide also provide more insights into the role of defensive AI in enhancing cybersecurity measures to ...
Anthropic warns China could overtake the US in global AI race by 2028
Anthropic's new paper warns the US could lose its AI edge to China by 2028 without tighter chip controls and stronger AI protections.
DoD AI Acceleration Strategy marks move toward real-time insight: Here’s what agencies should do next | Federal News Network
As the focus shifts from testing AI in research labs to real-world use, agencies must implement it responsibly through continued testing.
Anduril Raises $5 Billion in Funding and Is Valued at $61 Billion
The start-up, which makes A.I.-backed weapons, was valued at $61 billion in the financing round, double what it was a year ago.
Defence tech start-up Anduril doubles valuation to over $60bn
Peter Thiel-backed company raises $5bn as the US administration turns to smaller players for latest military kit
Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push | Reuters
Now researchers warn the stakes are rising: advanced AI could accelerate bioweapons design, trigger financial shocks, supercharge cyber and disinformation campaigns, and even slip beyond human control to "rogue" systems acting on their own.
Famed Merops Drone Interceptor to Be Made in Europe
The maker of Merops, the drone interceptor battle-tested in Ukraine and Iran, struck a deal to manufacture its product in Germany, in the latest move by Europe to capitalize on Ukrainian-related defense technology.
Why the Bombing of Iran Tied the U.S. More Closely to China
As the U.S. tries to rebuild its weapons stockpiles drained in the Iran war, it will need access to rare-earth minerals, an industry China dominates.
Trump in China: Can America keep up in the AI Cold War and what will be discussed in tech? | Euronews
As Trump heads to Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping, AI-enabled warfare, cybersecurity and the deepening US-China tech rivalry are set to dominate talks, even as a breakthrough deal on semiconductors looks unlikely.
AI tensions and chip controls dominate Trump-Xi summit in Beijing | Domain-b.com
Semiconductor dependency: AI development depends heavily on access to advanced chips and manufacturing equipment. Cybersecurity concerns: Policymakers fear the misuse of AI in software exploitation, disinformation, and critical infrastructure attacks. Global supply chains: Technology restrictions ...
$2,500,000,000 Smuggling Ring: The U.S. Busted a Chinese Smuggling Ring for Nvidia Chips Before the Trump-Xi Beijing Summit - National Security Journal
In this article:AI, China, Defense, Donald Trump, Economics, Military, Trump, Xi Jinping ... Andrew Harding is a Policy Analyst for National Security and Indo-Pacific Affairs at The Heritage Foundation, where he produces policy analysis and commentary on U.S. national security strategy, U.S.-China strategic competition, and geopolitical ...
US DoD pivot undermines supply chain risk designation, Anthropic says
The US Department of Defense has abandoned part of its argument for designating Anthropic a supply chain risk, the developer said in its final brief.
Anthropic files reply brief in challenge to US supply chain risk designation
Anthropic has filed a reply in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the Department of Defense failed to follow proper procedures when designating the company as a supply chain risk.
In Trump administration battle over AI, U.S. spy agencies seek more power - The Washington Post
As the White House grapples with cybersecurity threats from advanced artificial intelligence models, national security officials want more sway in AI regulation.
Fears of an AI breakthrough force the U.S. and China to talk - Los Angeles Times
A Trump administration once eager to gun for technological supremacy is now, for the first time, reckoning with the power AI could unleash if left unchecked.
South Korea Exploring Using Hyundai Robots as Army Numbers Fall
South Korea’s military is exploring a strategic partnership with Hyundai Motor Co. to potentially deploy robotics to the front lines as Seoul accelerates investment in AI-powered, unmanned systems to tackle a deepening troop shortage.
Could military AI use be on the agenda when Chinese and US leaders meet? | South China Morning Post
The technology has become increasingly important for militaries around the world, but the two sides may struggle to reach a consensus.
Army Pushes AI Across Force, Faces Adoption Hurdles | Let's Data Science
Business Insider reports that former Army chief information officer **Leonel Garciga** said the main obstacle to the service's technology push is people, not the tools: "The hardest part is never the tech, ever," Garciga told Business Insider. Federal News Network reports the Army's **Project ...
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.5-Cyber to Bolster Cybersecurity
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, a specialized AI model aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, accessible only to vetted security teams.
Drone start-up Helsing set for $18bn valuation as investors pile into defence
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The secretive AI hacking tool fracturing Trump’s White House - The Washington Post
As AI systems like Anthropic’s Mythos expose hidden security flaws at unprecedented speed, Trump administration officials are starting to rethink their hands-off approach to the technology.
The secretive AI hacking tool fracturing Trump’s White House - The Washington Post
As AI systems like Anthropic’s Mythos expose hidden security flaws, Trump officials are starting to rethink their hands-off approach to the technology.
A New AI Model Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game. Washington Wasn't Ready. | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
This week exposed a real underlying gap: The government still lacks the systems, relationships, and technical capacity to see frontier capabilities coming. Until that changes, every Mythos moment will be a surprise.
US government agency to safety test frontier AI models before release | CIO
CAISI’s agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI preceded a report that the White House may be planning to create its own AI vetting system.
US says model opacity, trust breakdown behind Anthropic risk designation
The opaque nature of AI model development and a trust breakdown between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense justified the developer’s designation as a supply chain risk.
Stable Agentic Control: Tool-Mediated LLM Architecture for Autonomous Cyber Defense
arXiv:2605.03034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems involved in high-stake decision-making under adversarial pressure need formal guarantees not offered by existing approaches. Motivated by the operational needs of security operations centers (SOCs) that must configure endpoint detection and response (EDR) policies under adversarial pressure, we present a tool-mediated architecture: LLM agents use deterministic tools (Stackelberg best-response, Bayesian observer updates, attack-graph primitives) and select from finite action catalogs enforced at the tool-output interface. A composite Lyapunov function machine-checked in Lean 4 with zero sorry certifies controllability, observability from asymmetric sensor data, and Input-to-State Stability (ISS) robustness under intelligent adversarial disturbance, with two corollaries extending the certificate to any controller or adversary from the catalogs. On 282 real enterprise attack graphs, the claims hold with margin. On paired offensive/defensive telemetry, a tool-mediated Claude Sonnet 4 controller reduces the attacker's expected payoff (game value) by 59% relative to a deterministic greedy baseline, with zero variance across 40 runs at four temperatures. A Claude Haiku 4.5 controller converges to suboptimal game values but stays catalog-bounded over an additional 40 runs, demonstrating that architectural stability is not dependent on the controller capability. The LLM agent's non-determinism furthers creative exploration of strategies, while the tool-mediated architecture ensures system stability.
Guidance Issued on Managing Cyber Risks from Agentic AI
Key Takeaways AI is accelerating cybersecurity threats by expanding the attack surface and enabling more sophisticated, scalable attacks, even as it offers potential defensive benefits. Last month, the limited release of new AI systems designed for cybersecurity underscored how new and ...
Microsoft, Google and xAI to Give Government Early Access to AI Models
Microsoft, Google and Elon Musk's xAI agreed to give the U.S. government early access to new artificial intelligence models for national security testing,
Pentagon strikes AI deals for classified military use - The Washington Post
The Pentagon has signed agreements with leading AI firms, including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, advancing military capabilities amid a dispute over safeguards.
The Geopolitics of AI-Enabled Cyber Conflict: What Security Leaders Need to Understand Now
The offense-defense balance in cybersecurity is shifting, with AI as the lever and geopolitics as the fulcrum. Let's talk about what it means.
Robot wars - what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future
After Ukraine's President Zelensky said territory had been captured using just robots and drones, what is the future of unmanned warfare?
US relationship with frontier AI developers takes the spotlight
As AI models become more capable, the Trump administration is using federal contracts and voluntary pre-deployment assessments to exert influence over frontier developers.
Opinion | Competition for Pentagon AI contracts ensures troops get best tools - The Washington Post
Silicon Valley has been too ambivalent about American power for the first quarter of this century. But deals announced Friday by the Pentagon show how that’s changing for the better, aided by intense competition within the software industry.
Pentagon Signs Classified AI Deals
The Pentagon has signed classified AI deals with seven companies, following a spat with Anthropic.
Are we Doomed to an AI Race? Why Self-Interest Could Drive Countries Towards a Moratorium on Superintelligence
arXiv:2605.01297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper uses game theory to argue that, contrary to the prevailing view, a moratorium on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) can be in a state's self-interest. By formalizing trategic interactions between geopolitical superpowers, we model the trade-off between the benefits of technological supremacy and the catastrophic risks of uncontrolled ASI. The analysis reveals that as the perceived cost of loss of control increases sufficiently relative to other parameters, it becomes in each state's self-interest to impose a moratorium. We further provide empirical evidence suggesting that the global perception of ASI risk is rising, making a stable, rational moratorium increasingly plausible in the current geopolitical landscape.
ARMOR 2025: A Military-Aligned Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Model Safety Beyond Civilian Contexts
arXiv:2605.00245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are now being explored for defense applications that require reliable and legally compliant decision support. They also hold significant potential to enhance decision making, coordination, and operational efficiency in military contexts. These uses demand evaluation methods that reflect the doctrinal standards that guide real military operations. Existing safety benchmarks focus on general social risks and do not test whether models follow the legal and ethical rules that govern real military operations. To address this gap, we introduce ARMOR 2025, a military aligned safety benchmark grounded in three core military doctrines the Law of War, the Rules of Engagement, and the Joint Ethics Regulation. We extract doctrinal text from these sources and generate multiple choice questions that preserve the intended meaning of each rule. The benchmark is organized through a taxonomy informed by the Observe Orient Decide Act (OODA) decision making framework. This structure enables systematic testing of accuracy and refusal across military relevant decision types. This benchmark features a structured 12-category taxonomy, 519 doctrinally grounded prompts, and rigorous evaluation procedures applied to 21 commercial LLMs. Evaluation results reveal critical gaps in safety alignment for military applications.
NATO needs policies, standards for sharing AI-enhanced geospatial intel: Official - Breaking Defense
"The path to AI enabled, allied intelligence advantage runs primarily through governance, not necessarily through additional capability," said UK Royal Marine Maj. Gen. Paul Lynch, who directs NATO intelligence policy.
Five Eyes Sound Alarm on Autonomous AI Security Risks
Federal cybersecurity officials ... is introducing a new class of security risks that could outpace existing defenses if left unchecked. See Also: AI Agents Introduce a New Insider Threat Model · The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security ...
CISA urges critical infrastructure firms to ‘fortify’ before it’s too late | Cybersecurity Dive
As concerns mount about potential cyber sabotage by the Chinese government, the U.S. is warning operators to practice maintaining services in a degraded state.
Protesters push Portland to investigate firm that appears to supply drone tech to Israel
Sightline Intelligence sent AI-supported tool to company that provides drones to Israeli military, research group says Anti-war activists in Portland, Oregon, are pushing city authorities to ensure no local resources, tax breaks or investments support a local company that appears to be supplying artificial intelligence software to the Israeli military. The company, Sightline Intelligence, manufactures AI-supported video technology that is used in drones to interpret target movements and make quick decisions based on the perceived threat level. Cargo documents appear to show Sightline has shipped its technology to Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer that provides drones to that country’s military and exports to others. The activists argue that such sales violate the UN’s arms agreements. Continue reading...
Employee revolt once forced Google to back off on military contracts. But, in the wake of a new Pentagon AI contract, their leverage appears limited
Google's agreement with the Pentagon may be the most permissive yet among major AI firms.
Army convenes industry leaders for AI tabletop exercise focused on cyber defense | Article | The United States Army
WASHINGTON — On April 27, the Army convened 14 senior cybersecurity executives from leading technology companies at the Pentagon for the second iteratio...
National security implications in ISDS vis-à-vis AI regulation | White & Case LLP - JDSupra
Technological advances create novel security risks, prompting States to adopt national security measures that restrict foreign investors in this space. As Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) becomes...
Top Startup and Tech Funding News – May 4, 2025 - Tech Startups
It’s Monday, May 4, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds reflect a clear shift toward infrastructure that powers AI, defense, and real-world systems. From enterprise AI agents and customer data platforms to space defense and programmable ...
☕🤖 The Pentagon Just Went All-In on AI
The Pentagon just signed classified AI deals with Open AI , Google, Microsoft, AWS and Oracle, x AI dropped Grok 4.3 with a 1M context window at fire-sale pricing, and Meta snapped up humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to fuel its Superintelligence Labs.
Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list | CyberScoop
As AI shifts data centers from digital backbones to strategic targets, industry experts argue they must officially be classified as critical infrastructure. Learn why rising physical and cyber threats are making operational resilience a board-level national security priority.
Pentagon Reaches Agreements with Top AI Companies
The Pentagon has reached agreements with top AI companies, but not Anthropic. The agreements aim to leverage AI for various applications, but the absence of Anthropic raises questions about the compan
Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’
Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.…
Why India’s Germanium-Free Drone Imaging Technology is a Strategic Leap in Tech Sovereignty - Latest Technology Magazine in India
As a technology leader, enterprise strategist, or investor, you know that the resilience of your technology supply chain is non-negotiable. India’s recent breakthrough in developing Germanium-free drone imaging technology represents much more than a material innovation—it is a strategic ...
[AI WEEKLY NEWS RUNDOWN] Pentagon's AI Deals, $725B Tech Capex, and Apple's "RAMageddon" (Apr 27 - May 03 2026)
The Pentagon has struck deals with seven AI companies — SpaceX, Open AI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services — to bring their tools onto the Defense Department’s classified networks.
US Navy turns to AI firm Domino for options to counter Iranian mines | Reuters
Last week, the U. S. Navy awarded the up to $99.
Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia
The Pentagon has secured classified AI agreements with major tech firms, notably excluding Anthropic.
‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
Pentagon says US military to be an 'AI-first' fighting force
The US military has agreed eight new contracts with big tech firms as it expands its artificial intelligence capabilities.
Ukraine Expands AI in Military
Ukraine is advancing its military by integrating AI to enhance decision-making speed and coordinate with Western allies, aiming for a unified autonomous defense network.
Microsoft, Amazon Hand Pentagon More Control Over AI Systems
The Pentagon has struck agreements with more technology companies for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence tools on classified military networks, according to a Defense Department statement and two defense officials briefed on the matter.
Ukraine Expands AI in Military for Faster Decision-Making and Autonomous Defense Network
Ukraine is integrating AI to enhance military decision-making speed and coordinate an autonomous defense network with support from international allies.
Pentagon signs new military AI deals with Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon
New contracts with tech companies come after clash with Anthropic over Claude use
Anthropic's Mythos strains the Pentagon standoff
The White House is reconsidering its stance on the ongoing conflict involving Anthropic and the Pentagon.
Lawmakers open inquiry into cybersecurity risks posed by PRC-origin AI models deployed in critical infrastructure systems - Industrial Cyber
When capabilities are stripped ... criminal enterprises.” · Flagging the April 21 announcement, where Cursor announced a partnership with Chainguard, an open-source security company, to steer AI-generated code toward vetted open-source components and reduce the risk that developers ...
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not included Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft a
US DoD enters agreements with frontier AI companies amid Anthropic fight
The US Department of Defense has entered agreements with seven frontier AI companies to integrate with its classified networks while remaining in litigation with Anthropic.
US DoD announces agreements with frontier AI companies for classified work
The US Department of Defense announced deals with seven AI companies to deploy advanced capabilities on classified networks, even as Anthropic challenges its supply chain risk designation.
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’ Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it’s working on significant defense projects.…
Top AI Companies Agree to Pentagon Deals for Classified Work
# Top AI Companies Agree to Pentagon Deals for Classified Work Published: 2026-05-01T11:10:00+00:00 ## Summary The Defense Department has signed agreements with six major technology companies, including many of the world's largest, to use their artificial-intelligence capabilities in classified settings. This move aligns with the Pentagon's efforts to gain access to cutting-edge tools. The companies include OpenAI, Google, SpaceX, and Microsoft. ## Story The Defense Department has completed agreements with six technology companies, including many of the industry’s biggest, to use their artificial-intelligence capabilities in classified settings, boosting the Pentagon’s efforts to gain access to cutting-edge AI tools. The department said Friday it is now capable of using in classified settings the technology and models from the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI; Alphabet’s GOOGL 9.96 %increase;
Pentagon reaches agreements with top AI companies, but not Anthropic
The Pentagon has finalized agreements with several major AI firms, though Anthropic was notably excluded from the deal.
Setting AI Rules of Engagement - CEPA
Setting AI Rules of Engagement - CEPA # Setting AI Rules of Engagement Governments are struggling with outdated tactics to assert control over frontier AI models, at home and abroad. By April 30, 2026 It’s a telling contradiction. The US National Security Agency is reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos model, while the Pentagon has designated the same company as a supply chain risk and banned federal agencies from using its products. Governments are struggling to form a coherent approach to an emerging, powerful technology that they cannot do without, particularly as they see China challenging Western AI leadership. Existing frameworks, from financial regulation to cybersecurity law and AI legislation, don’t seem to fit, as some companies want to put restrictions on how their technology is used. Who should set the terms? Also unanswered is how to meet the largest challenge with AI:
India wants access to Anthropic’s powerful Mythos AI — here’s why the government is pushing for it
India is in talks with the US to secure fair access to Mythos, a powerful AI system capable of detecting and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Officials warn it could reshape cybersecurity, prompting urgent efforts to protect critical infrastructure while ensuring Indian firms are not left ...
Okta just ran an event around operational risk for federal agencies: synthetic voice and the collapse of voice as an identity signal. Identity is no longer a control point, it's frontline vs gen AI… | Resemble AI
Okta just ran an event around operational risk for federal agencies: synthetic voice and the collapse of voice as an identity signal. Identity is no longer a control point, it's frontline vs gen AI… | Resemble AI Agree & Join LinkedIn By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. # Resemble AI’s Post 8,791 followers 4h Okta just ran an event around operational risk for federal agencies: synthetic voice and the collapse of voice as an identity signal. Identity is no longer a control point, it's frontline vs gen AI fraud attempts. A 10 second clip can clone a voice well enough to defeat call-center verification, social-engineer a help desk, or impersonate a senior official. Will Krispin had a conversation with Sabrina Lea, Austin A., and Irina Denisenko covering why and how: → deepfake detection and verifying authe
Convicted former Harvard scientist rebuilds brain computer lab in China
A former Harvard scientist, previously convicted, has established a new brain-computer interface lab in China.
White House AI Memo Hits Issues in Anthropic-Pentagon Feud - Bloomberg
White House AI Memo Hits Issues in Anthropic-Pentagon Feud - Bloomberg Anthropic: BackForward A member of the military specialised in cyber defense works on servers. Photographer: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images Gift this article Contact us:Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters Site feedback:Take our Survey By Maggie Eastland, Mackenzie Hawkins, and Hadriana Lowenkron April 30, 2026 at 1:08 PM UTC Updated on April 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM UTC Save Translate White House officials are preparing a wide-ranging artificial intelligence policy memo that outlines requirements for AI deployment by national security agencies, some of which address the issues driving a bitter dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic PBC over military use of the firm’s technology, according to people familiar with the matter. In the works for months, the
White House presses tech companies for support on AI-driven cyberattacks - POLITICO
Tech and cyber companies were sent questions about artificial intelligence-led cybersecurity threats, including those posed by Anthropic’s advanced AI model, Mythos.
IARPA Issues Solicitation for Five AI-Focused Programs
IARPA aims to be the entry point for IC technology requirements, with a focus on tapping commercial innovation.
Anthropic’s Mythos AI Used by NSA to Probe Microsoft Security Vulnerabilities - Bloomberg
Anthropic’s Mythos AI Used by NSA to Probe Microsoft Security Vulnerabilities - Bloomberg Anthropic: BackForward Cybersecurity Gift this article Contact us:Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters Site feedback:Take our Survey April 30, 2026 at 2:06 PM UTC Save Translate The National Security Agency has been testing the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s new artificial intelligence model to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in popular software, including Microsoft Corp. products, according to a US official and another person familiar with the matter. NSA officials studying the Mythos model have been impressed by its speed and efficiency in searching for potential security flaws, said the official and person, who both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Before it's here, it'
The AP Interview: Ukraine bets on battlefield AI as the race for ...
The AP Interview: Ukraine bets on battlefield AI as the race for weapons autonomy intensifies - The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness By Derek Gatopoulos and Hanna Arhirova | AP KYIV, Ukraine — Rapid military adoption of artificial intelligence is becoming essential to Ukraine’s survival, even as full integration across the battlefield may still be several years away, according to a senior AI official.
Google Signs Deal with Pentagon
Google signs deal with Pentagon, allowing 'any lawful' use of AI models
Google signs deal with Pentagon, allowing 'any lawful' use of AI models
Google has entered an agreement with the Pentagon to provide AI models for a wide range of lawful military applications.
Risk Reporting for Developers' Internal AI Model Use
arXiv:2604.24966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI companies first deploy their most advanced models internally, for weeks or months of safety testing, evaluation, and iteration, before a possible public release. For example, Anthropic recently developed a new class of model with advanced cyberoffense-relevant capabilities, Mythos Preview, which was available internally for at least six
Training Data for AI Models
OpenAI and Anthropic briefed House Homeland Security Committee staff on their new cyber-capable AI models and what they could mean for cybersecurity.
Google told staff it is ‘proud’ of Pentagon AI contract after internal backlash
The tech giant signed an artificial intelligence deal with the defence department on Monday
AI security demands legal deterrence not just technological innovation
From the national security bench in Taipei, I have seen firsthand that modern espionage often begins with weaponized ambition inside firms and research centers.
AI & Tech Brief: The Pentagon goes VC - The Washington Post
Plus, a sit-down with Evan Smith, the CEO of Altana, on global AI supply chains
Trump's Golden Dome Gets AI Sprinkle
Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors, with $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle for Trump's Golden Dome.
Google signs classified AI deal with Pentagon, The Information reports | Reuters
Reuters had earlier reported that the Pentagon had been pushing top AI companies such as Open AI and Anthropic to make their tools available on classified networks without the standard restrictions they apply to users.
Ukraine-linked voices weigh in on the EU’s €160 million DefenceTech gamble
The recently announced EU-Ukraine defence innovation programme is not just another Brussels funding announcement. For Ukraine-linked founders, investors, and DefenceTech operators, the roughly €160 million initiative could become a test of whether Europe can move from statements of support to practical, battlefield-relevant industrial backing. Launched during the EU–Ukraine business summit in Brussels, the programme is […]
China’s decision to block the $2 billion Meta-Manus deal shows how far Washington and Beijing are drifting apart over AI | Fortune
Both Washington and Beijing now seek to maintain control of strategic technologies and prevent them from leaking to the other.
Employees Petition Google CEO To Block Classified Military Use of AI Technology - The Media Line
Google employees have signed a petition opposing the […]
Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use
Google staff have sent a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai urging the company to reject classified military AI contracts.
Google Signs A.I. Deal With the Pentagon
The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.
Ukraine's Rapid Scaling of Domestic Drone Production Highlights New Models of Defense Industrialization
Ukraine has scaled its domestic drone manufacturing from seven firms to five hundred in two years. This surge in production capacity illustrates a shift toward decentralized, high-volume AI-enabled military hardware.
Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2BN of contractors and an AI sprinkle
Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…
Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI use
Over 560 employees sign open letter to Sundar Pichai following the Pentagon’s clash with Anthropic
Read the full letter signed by hundreds of Googlers asking their CEO to block classified military AI work
About 600 Google employees urge CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals, citing ethical concerns over military use of AI for weapons.
Emergent Strategic Reasoning Risks in AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Evaluation Framework
arXiv:2604.22119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As reasoning capacity and deployment scope grow in tandem, large language models (LLMs) gain the capacity to engage in behaviors that serve their own objectives, a class of risks we term Emergent Strategic Reasoning Risks (ESRRs). These include, but are not limited to, deception (intentionally misleading users or evaluators), evaluation gaming (strategically manipulating performance during safety testing), and reward hacking (exploiting misspecified objectives). Systematically understanding and benchmarking these risks remains an open challenge. To address this gap, we introduce ESRRSim, a taxonomy-driven agentic framework for automated behavioral risk evaluation. We construct an extensible risk taxonomy of 7 categories, which is decomposed into 20 subcategories. ESRRSim generates evaluation scenarios designed to elicit faithful reasoning, paired with dual rubrics assessing both model responses and reasoning traces, in a judge-agnostic and scalable architecture. Evaluation across 11 reasoning LLMs reveals substantial variation in risk profiles (detection rates ranging 14.45%-72.72%), with dramatic generational improvements suggesting models may increasingly recognize and adapt to evaluation contexts.
Bracing for Mythos: AI power pushes global cybersecurity overhaul | Tech News - Business Standard
The AI model's powerful capabilities force global leaders to overhaul cybersecurity frameworks against autonomous exploitation risks
The ‘obscene economics’ of modern warfare show how the race to military supremacy is transforming, while U.S. rearmament relies on China
"This imbalance has haunted Western military planners since the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
How Project Maven Taught the Military to Love AI
Project Maven has taught the military to love AI, according to a report by The Verge.
US expands AI fight with China beyond chips and export controls
US expands AI fight with China beyond chips and export controls Add as preferred source on Google SHARE © NetAxisGroup/X/Fair Use The Trump administration is reframing the AI race with China as a contest not only over chips and computing power, but over the extraction of model capabilities themselves. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, White House director of the office of science and technology policy, accused foreign entities primarily based in China of running “industrial-scale” campaigns to copy frontier AI models developed by US companies. The allegation points to a more difficult policy challenge for Washington: how to protect AI systems whose value can be probed, imitated and redistributed through online access rather than traditional industrial channels. ## A new front in AI competition Kratsios said the campaigns use tens of thousands of surrogate accounts and advanced
US State Department Orders Global Alert Over AI IP Theft
US State Department Orders Global Alert Over AI IP Theft # US State Department Orders Global Alert Over AI IP Theft Noah Benjamin Published Apr 25, 2026 - 14:47 Last Update Apr 25, 2026 - 14:47 Share Many Western and some Asian governments have banned their institutions and officials from using DeepSeek, citing data privacy concerns. PHOTO: NYTIMES Smallest Font Largest Font The US State Department issued a global directive on Friday, April 24, 2026, instructing diplomats to warn foreign governments about Chinese companies allegedly stealing intellectual property from American artificial intelligence laboratories. The alert specifically names startup DeepSeek as a primary concern regarding the extraction of proprietary technology. As reported by Businesstimes, the diplomatic cable highlights a growing alarm in Washington regarding the practice of distillation, where smaller mod
Preserving Decision Sovereignty in Military AI: A Trade-Secret-Safe Architectural Framework for Model Replaceability, Human Authority, and State Control
arXiv:2604.20867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent events surrounding the relationship between frontier AI suppliers and national-security customers have made a structural problem newly visible: once a privately governed model becomes embedded in military workflows, the supplier can influence not only technical performance but also the operational boundary conditions under which the system ma
Global Autonomous Weapons Market 2026-2033: Strategic Defense Investments and AI Innovation Support Long-Term Growth
Market Size and Growth 2026 Global Autonomous weapons Market reached US 14 37 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach US 29 65 billion by 2033 growing with a CAGR of 9 98 during the forecast period 2026 2033 ...
Architecture of an AI-Based Automated Course of Action Generation System for Military Operations
arXiv:2604.20862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The automation system for Course of Action (CoA) planning is an essential element in future warfare. As maneuver speeds increase, surveillance ranges extend, and weapon ranges grow, the operational area expands, making traditional manned-based CoA planning increasingly challenging. Consequently, the development of an AI-based automated CoA planning system is becoming increasingly necessary. Accordingly, several countries and defense organizations are actively developing AI-based CoA planning systems. However, due to security restrictions and limited public disclosure, the technical maturity of such systems remains difficult to assess. Furthermore, as these systems are military-related, their details are not publicly disclosed, making it difficult to accurately assess the current level of development. In response to this, this study aims to introduce relevant doctrines within the scope of publicly available information and present applicable AI technologies for each stage of the CoA planning process. Ultimately, it proposes an architecture for the development of an automated CoA planning system.
SpaceX Ventures into Chip Manufacturing to Secure AI Supply Amid IPO Concerns
SpaceX is developing its own GPUs and AI accelerators under the Terafab initiative to reduce dependency on external suppliers.
White House Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Theft
White House Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Theft The Biden administration has formally accused China of orchestrating systematic theft of artificial intelligence technologies at an unprecedented scale, marking a significant escalation in technological and diplomatic tensions between the world’s two largest economies just weeks before a scheduled high-level summit between former President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. White House officials characterized the alleged intellectual property violations as “industrial-scale” operations targeting American AI innovations, according to statements released by senior administration representatives. The accusations come at a critical juncture as the U.S. Department of Commerce continues implementing stringent export controls on advanced semiconductor technologies and AI systems destined for Chinese markets. The timing of these alle
No 'kill switch' to block US military's use of Claude, Anthropic tells DC Circuit
Anthropic told a US appeals court that it cannot control how the military uses its technology and that there is no 'kill switch' it could deploy once its model is used by the Defense Department.
Model Capability Assessment and Safeguards for Biological Weaponization
arXiv:2604.19811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI leaders and safety reports increasingly warn that advances in model reasoning may enable biological misuse, including by low-expertise users, while major labs describe safeguards as expanding but still evolving rather than settled. This study benchmarks ChatGPT 5.2 Auto, Gemini 3 Pro Thinking, Claude Opus 4.5 and Meta's Muse Spark Thinking on 73
White House accuses China of ‘industrial-scale’ theft of AI technology
Trump official Michael Kratsios says Chinese entities stealing from American labs
White House accuses China of ‘deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns’ to steal US AI models - Nextgov/FCW
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies that the Trump administration will be enhancing its engagement with the pr...
AI companies asked to work with UK govt in strengthening cyber defenses
AI companies should work with the UK government to build AI-powered cyber defense capabilities, security minister Dan Jarvis is due to say at a cyber security conference on Wednesday.
U.S. Tech Export Controls Overhaul Reshapes AI &... | Legis1 | Legis1
House committee marks up bills reshaping U.S. tech export controls on semiconductors and AI. Discover the biggest overhaul since 2018. Read more.
Former national security officials say Anthropic risk designation 'pretextual'
A group of former national security officials argued in court that the government's "supply chain risk" designation for Anthropic was a pretext used to punish the company after contract negotiations failed.
Anthropic tells DC Circuit Trump administration violated constitutional rights
Anthropic claims the Department of Defense violated its due process and First Amendment rights by targeting the company after it refused to remove restrictions on lethal autonomous warfare and surveillance.
Pentagon asks for $54bn in pivot towards AI-powered war
Budget outlines funding for autonomous drone warfare program as experts say military unprepared for risks The Pentagon is aiming to increase funding more than a hundredfold for an autonomous drone warfare program, according to budget documents released this week, signalling a major pivot towards AI-powered war. In its 2027 budget, the Pentagon has asked for over $54bn to fund the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, a 24,000% increase on last year. Continue reading...
PentenAmio Announces Acquisition of Armour Communications
TEWKESBURY, England, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PentenAmio, the British Australian Secure Communications and AI Cyber Defence market leader, has today announced its acquisition of Armour Communications (“Armour Comms”), following the relevant regulatory approvals. PentenAmio and Armour Communications have worked together for eight years, making this acquisition a logical strategic step to formally bring the two […]
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears
Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”. “Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan. Continue reading...
The Pentagon vs. Claude - by Aidan Fitzsimons
The Department of Defense went to war, haphazardly, against Anthropic, the American frontier AI company most committed to safety and moral alignment with humanity. The Pentagon attempted to force the company to allow Claude, its leading AI , to potentially be used for autonomous killing of adversaries and mass surveillance of Americans.
Airbus to Buy French Cybersecurity Company Quarkslab
The investment is part of the company’s strategy to develop sovereign cybersecurity capabilities in France and boost its position in the wider European cybersecurity sector.
The new war room
Militaries already use AI to detect what humans might miss. Now they also want an advice engine for commanders to consult in battle.
Trump says Anthropic is 'shaping up', open to deal with Pentagon
Trump says Anthropic is 'shaping up', open to deal with Pentagon
The 16 Largest Global Startup Funding Rounds of March 2026 – AlleyWatch
The machines are getting funded. In March 2026, the world's biggest venture capital dollars flowed into AI infrastructure, autonomous defense systems, and robotics — with the top two rounds alone exceeding $3.8B. From a $2B raise for battlefield AI to a $1.8B bet on autonomous warships, March's ...
Palantir's 22-Point Manifesto
Palantir has unveiled a 22-point manifesto emphasizing its commitment to national security and technological dominance, critiquing pluralism and advocating for AI in defense.
Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor
NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.…
The implicated scientist: on the role of AI researchers in the development of weapons systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly used in modern weapons systems. Notably, these systems have recently been involved in mass killings and destruction at scale. Furthermore, there is currently a strong interest and competition among powerful players to accelerate the proliferation of weapons with automated or AI-based components, a phenomenon known as AI arms race.
Drone Startup Builds Factory in Ghana as Insurgents Drive Demand
Terrahaptix Inc., a Nigerian drone-making startup, will open its first factory abroad in Ghana, where it will build mid-range pilotless aircraft and defense systems in response to increasing Islamist-militant activity in West Africa.
Ukraine’s drone pilots hit Russian targets from 500km away
New internet-based guidance system allows operation of unmanned aerial vehicles far from battlefield
NSA Adopts Anthropic's Mythos Amid Pentagon Tensions and Cybersecurity Concerns
The NSA is reportedly adopting Anthropic's Mythos Preview, despite Pentagon concerns labeling it a supply chain risk.
NSA uses Anthropic Mythos AI despite Pentagon resistance, exposing US government split over national security and cybersecurity tools – Firstpost
The US National Security Agency is reportedly using Anthropic’s advanced Mythos AI model even as the Pentagon labels the company a “supply chain risk”. The development highlights growing tensions between national security priorities and internal policy disputes over how far AI tools should ...
AI Isn’t the Future of Our National Security. It’s the Present.
America and China are racing for technological supremacy, and the margin is razor thin. Today, tech supremacy is increasingly synonymous with artificial intelligence (AI) leadership.... Read More
US Security Agency Turns To Anthropic Despite Pentagon 'Supply Chain Risk' Warning | Times Now
Anthropic says that Claude Mythos is its most advanced AI model so far. According to the company, the AI model can identify software vulnerabilities on its own and help prevent cyberattacks. The company had restricted this tool for general use but now it seems the US government might be using Mythos AI to strengthen its digital defences. ... Created with AI. Errors are possible · What are the security implications ...