Category: Defense One
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Satellites May Never Sleep Again
DARPA is backing nuclear-waste-powered batteries that could keep drones, satellites and remote military systems running for years.
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ChatGPT Enters the Pentagon
ChatGPT is heading deeper into the Pentagon’s AI stack.
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AI Is Training In The Desert
A desert dirt-bike race is becoming a live testing ground for battlefield AI.
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New AI Bill Targets Warfare
A new US bill wants the Pentagon to slow down before handing AI too much power in warfare.It targets high-risk uses like nuclear missions, lethal targeting, cyber operations and domestic surveillance.
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Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Isn’t Human
Ukraine’s war story is no longer just about survival.
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The Rise of Robot Warfare
Ukraine is turning war robots from battlefield experiments into frontline assault tools, even forcing Russian troops to surrender without Ukrainian infantry entering the fight.
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Hormuz Becomes Iran’s Weapon
Trump’s Iran strategy is buying time, but not leverage, and Tehran is turning the Strait of Hormuz into its biggest bargaining chip.
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The Fighter Jet’s New Best Friend
Anduril is accelerating into the Air Force’s drone-wingman race, moving YFQ-44A Fury production to its giant Ohio factory months earlier than planned.
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Surveillance Just Got Smarter
America’s border towers are getting an AI brain transplant. Smarter sensors, on-site image recognition, and solar-powered systems could help monitor more terrain with fewer humans, but they also sharpen the old question of what surveillance can solve, and what it cannot.
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Is AI Weakening Military Minds?
The Pentagon’s rush to embrace commercial AI is raising a quieter but more dangerous risk: what happens when the people making life-and-death decisions start trusting the machine too much?