Pentagon

Enterprise AI

Battlefield AI Grapples With Risk-Tolerance Minefield

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Future battlefields will be shaped by AI weapons that defense firms and Big Tech are vying to build for the military. Guardrails are lagging.

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Economics

Defense Industry Braces for Tariff Barrage

Three titans of the US defense industry — Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrop Grumman — signalled tariffs are going to be bad for business.

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Industrials

Hypersonic Missiles Startup Raises $100 Million for “Non-Nuclear Deterrent”

The startup promises to fill a void in one area where US military research and development has been caught flat-footed.

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Technology

Starlink is Poised to Move into Yemen

Elon Musk’s Starlink is set to receive official approval to enter Yemen, where a civil war has been raging since 2014, Bloomberg reports.

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Power Corridor

Exclusive: Pentagon Sells Off Trump Border Wall

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Battle over the border highlights the magnitude of government waste.

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Industries

The Pentagon Wants to Play Quick Draw with its Weapon Sales

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