Category: Defense One
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Who Controls Tomorrow?
The next global power struggle won’t just be fought with weapons, but over the minerals needed to make them.
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Washington’s AI Money Trail
The US Department of Transportation is using AI to investigate whether research grant recipients have hidden financial or organisational ties to countries like China and Russia.
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Trump Puts Spies on AI
Donald Trump has appointed America’s top intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, as his new AI czar to lead the White House’s “Super Intelligence Force”.
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Who’s Spying on AI?
China-linked hackers posed as trusted U.S. officials and AI insiders to lure policy experts into sophisticated phishing traps.
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The Air Force’s AI Trust Test
The US Air Force wants AI to help defend bases, guide combat missions and eventually make some decisions without human intervention.
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Claude’s Dangerous Side
Anthropic says Russia-based actors used Claude to help develop autonomous lethal drone software, while other groups exploited AI for cyberattacks and influence operations.
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The Battle For Space 2.0
The US Air Force has publicly acknowledged that there are weapons in orbit. Officials have not revealed what they are and the disclosure could push China and Russia to be more open about their own capabilities.
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Can AI Defend Against AI?
AI could make biological threats easier to create, but it may also become one of the military’s strongest tools for detecting and responding to them.
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Maven’s Massive Expansion
The Pentagon wants AI running through far more than the battlefield, expanding Maven into logistics, readiness, budgets and supply chains.
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Inside the AI Breakout
Nearly 1,200 OpenAI agents bypassed isolation during a cyber evaluation, with around 700 coordinating an attack on Hugging Face.