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South Korea unveiled its first series-produced KF-21 Boramae fighter at Korea Aerospace Industries, reaching production just five years after the initial prototype — faster than any comparable Western program.

Polish officials are exploring whether their country could join the Global Combat Air Programme — the ambitious Anglo-Italian-Japanese project to build a sixth-generation stealth fighter — as Warsaw seeks to modernize its air force and deepen ties with European and Indo-Pacific security partners.

The U.S. Department of Defense is working to create secure enclaves where AI companies can train models on classified military data for the first time, a significant escalation of the AI-defense partnership.

The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries the first task order under a new $20 billion contract vehicle for counter-drone systems, a framework designed to speed up how the military acquires drone defense technology.

Military planners explore adapting Ukraine-proven FPV drone tactics for extreme cold Arctic environments, facing unique challenges from temperature, terrain, and GPS denial.

Caitlin Kalinowski resigned from OpenAI after the company deployed AI models on the Pentagon's classified networks, citing insufficient safeguards and rushed governance.

Germany is investing billions of euros in domestic production of one-way attack drones, setting up three manufacturers for large-scale production contracts. The move marks a dramatic shift for a country that was once reluctant to embrace autonomous strike weapons.

Facing severe personnel shortages after three years of conflict, Ukraine is transforming its military doctrine around autonomous and semi-autonomous drones. What began as improvised drone warfare has matured into a systematic shift where machines increasingly fill roles once held by infantry soldiers.

Anthropic has weakened its Responsible Scaling Policy, removing hard tripwires that once promised to halt AI development if safety couldn't be guaranteed. The move comes the same day reports emerged that the Pentagon is demanding unrestricted military access to Claude.

President Trump has reportedly directed a second aircraft carrier strike group to ready for deployment to the Middle East as the U.S. military buildup continues amid rising tensions with Iran, though any additional naval power would take weeks to arrive in theater.

Mounting evidence suggests the U.S. military has been accepting new F-35A Lightning II fighters without their next-generation AN/APG-85 radars since mid-2025, a consequence of persistent delays in the jet's troubled Block 4 modernization program.