According to the FT, a broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to prepare plans for a potential ground operation to seize Iran's stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
I've spent years trying to stay out of politics, but every now and then, a conversation comes along that feels too important to ignore. This is one of those.
The Pentagon is moving to formally adopt Palantir Technologies's Maven artificial intelligence system as a core program across the U.S. military, according to a letter from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg.
Figures presented by the Department of War officials during a classified briefing to lawmakers on Capitol Hill have revealed that the cost of the United States' military campaign against Iran has exceeded $11.3 billion in just the first six days of f
Dozens of US Democratic lawmakers have called for an investigation into allegations that military commanders are portraying the war on Iran as part of biblical prophecy, according to reporting by Military.com...
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CEO of Blacklisted AI Company Anthropic, Dario Amodei Says His AI Models 'May Have Gained Consciousness' and Are Exhibiting Signs of Anxiety – Gets Trolled by Elon Musk
Something strange just happened: the U.S. government publicly banned an AI system as a national security risk… and then the military used that same AI to help plan strikes on Iran days later.
Update (2345ET): Sam Altman on Friday night announced that OpenAI and Department of War have struck a deal in which the DoW will be able to use the company's AI for military applications, and has agreed to abide by the company's red lines regarding s
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Feb. 6 that the Pentagon will cut all academic ties with Harvard University as the institution "no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services."
The Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy late on Jan. 23, placing the homeland and a surrounding sphere of influence as the top priority for the U.S. military.
President Donald Trump last week stated that he would ask Congress for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027, an enormous $500 billion increase over 2026's military budget.
The Department of War just launched an AI platform for the military called GenAI.mil. It's basically a large-language model built specifically for war.
The War Department today announced the launch of Google Cloud's Gemini for Government as the first of several frontier AI capabilities to be housed on GenAI.mil, the Department's new bespoke AI platform.