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An emerging picture indicates that better communications tech between agencies may have prevented the Trump shooting—and that getting the Secret Service, law enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security on the same page…

Two years ago, the entire world spent an estimated $800 million on data labeling: the painstaking process of annotating images and other information to train machine-learning and AI models. Now, the Pentagon’s mapping agency is prepping a…

A U.S. Air Force unit loaded Ukrainian F-16s with new electronic warfare capabilities ahead of the jets’ delivery—and plans to reprogram them based on data collected in combat. The 68th Electronic Warfare Squadron, a small unit based…

While much has been said about the danger of allowing AI into military operations in a way that would allow AI to kill people, there has been far less discussion about using AI to make war safer for civilians. But that's what U.S. special…

The arrest Sunday in France of Pavel Durov, the controversial Russian-born founder of the social media and messaging app Telegram—and potential further actions against the app itself—could reduce the public’s ability to fully understand the…

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In February, 24-year-old Ian Lafferty decided to take a break from the project he was working on—an AI tool for email—and attend a hackathon in San Francisco. While there, he met a handful of Ukranians fresh from the front lines,…

Northop Grumman on Wednesday announced the successful first flight of its Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor, or EMRIS, aboard a U.S. military aircraft. The development paves the way for eventual…

FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana—The only sign of the drone was its moped-like whine, the noise rising and falling as it circled above the 101st Airborne Division’s soldiers deep behind enemy lines in an exercise last week. But somewhere up…

Two new reports suggest that the Pentagon may have finally learned how to buy technology at lower cost quickly, at least when it comes to AI-driven capabilities.One report looks at the Maven Smart System, or MSS, part of Maven, a system for…