defense

The Chinese People's Liberation Army conducted an urban warfare drill testing human-unmanned team tactics, deploying drone swarms, robotic dogs, and unmanned ground vehicles coordinated with human soldiers to demonstrate future warfare capabilities.

OpenAI announces the scaling of its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program and the release of GPT-5.4-Cyber, a variant fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity use cases.

OpenAI announced an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (referred to as 'Department of War') for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments, with explicit guardrails against domestic surveillance, autonomous weapons direction, and high-stakes automated decisions. The agreement includes cloud-only deployment, retained safety stacks, and cleared OpenAI personnel oversight.