For its 2026 budget, the U.S. Department of Defense requested $13.4 billion for autonomous weapons and systems, which includes unmanned and remotely-operated drones and weapons. Defense Secretary Pete ...
The United States military has an AI hype problem, and if officials aren’t careful, it could lead to civil catastrophe. That’s according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center, a law and policy think ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The debate about lethal autonomy—core to the Trump administration’s fight with Anthropic—obscures a deeper danger of the Pentagon’s ...
Militaries worldwide are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) while international cooperation flounders. With the United States and China less engaged at a recent AI military summit, middle ...
Google is reportedly in talks with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy its AI models in classified environments This is a major shift in Google's stance on working with the military AI companies ...
In February 2026, a notice on the People’s Liberation Army’s procurement platform revealed that Shanxi 100 Trust Information Technology, a 266-person IT firm headquartered in China’s coal belt, had ...