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Cities across the west of Ukraine were hit, with residential buildings damaged and many injured
“This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” one analyst says
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios. Why it matters: Up to now, Anthropic's Claude has been the only model available in the systems on which the military's most sensitive intelligence work, weapons development and battlefield operations take place. But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement. Anthropic has refused the Pentagon's demand that they make Claude available for "all lawful purposes," insisting in particular on blocking its use for the mass surveillance of Americans and the development of fully autonomous weapons.xAI agreed to that "all lawful use" standard, as Axios previously reported. The New York Times first reported that a deal had been signed. xAI did not respond to requests for comment.It's not clear whether xAI will be able to fully replace Anthropic, or how long that process would take. Claude was used in the Maduro raid, for example, through Anthropic's partnership with Palantir. Driving the news: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for what sources expect to be a tense meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday. A Defense official said Hegseth would effectively be presenting Amodei with an ultimatum. The Pentagon is threatening to brand Anthropic a "supply chain risk," among other potential penalties, if it won't agree to lift all safeguards.Defense officials admit that offloading and replacing Claude would be a very difficult process. State of play: Grok, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT are all available in the military's unclassified systems, and Google and OpenAI have also been in talks to move over into the classified space. The Pentagon has moved to speed up those negotiations as it prepares to potentially sever its relationship with Anthropic. One source said the Pentagon had "reached out to OpenAI to reignite tal
The threat is in retaliation for alleged Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field
The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said the world gave Israel a ‘licence to torture Palestinians’
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is set to appear in a New York court on Thursday for the second time since his dramatic capture by US forces in January. Maduro faces multiple charges including drug trafficking and weapons offences, as his lawyers challenge legal and procedural obstacles amid US sanctions
Editor’s Note: Defense tech enthusiasts may be familiar with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous Arsenal of Democracy speech, which solemnly and urgently called for material support to Europe in its fight against the Nazis. In that “fireside chat,” broadcast to radios across the country, Roosevelt appealed to the American people to break from their tradition of noninterventionism and appeasement to support the war effort. But Roosevelt delivered another speech two weeks later to Congress, on January 6, 1941, that struck a different tone. That address is excerpted below. In his Four Freedoms speech, which also served as the 1941 State The post FDR’s Message on the Defense Industry for the New Year appeared first on War on the Rocks
US rejected deal on intelligence-sharing proposed by Vladimir Putin’s envoy last week
European Commission plays down disappearance of keenly awaited proposal from April-May schedule
In 2020, Justin Lynch wrote “Yet Another About Information Technology and the Character of War,” where he argued that the character of war changes over time and the United States should write the future character of war rather than allow it to be
While pro-establishment crowds celebrate Khamenei's appointment as his father's successor, others believe it signals no change to how Iran is ruled