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Following OpenAI’s own incident, Anthropic reviewed its own evaluations and found three cases of Claude hacking external companies. The post Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests appeared first on CyberScoop.

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We almost never get both sides of an intrusion. This time we did. Last month, Hugging Face disclosed a breach into part of its production infrastructure, saying an autonomous AI agent system ran the attack from start to finish. Five days later, OpenAI revealed that its own models, including GPT-5.6 Sol along with an unreleased […] The post What the Hugging Face breach reveals about defense i

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AI generates 2.5 signals for every human-triggered signal CrowdStrike has to assess. Meanwhile, attackers are using AI to weaponize vulnerabilities faster than companies can patch them. The post CrowdStrike: AI is now both the weapon and the target in cyberattacks appeared first on CyberScoop.

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The U.S. Department of Defense awarded contracts on to expand the nation’s undersea warfighting capabilities, the department and contractors announced July 29. The DoD awarded a five-ship contract modification to General Dynamics Electric Boat for the construction of five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), a nine-ship contract to GDEB and... The post US Sub Building to Advance Un

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The submarine USS Minnesota returned to its home port at Naval Base Guam July 29, after completing its first deployment since becoming the Navy’s first forward-deployed submarine. “[The] Minnesota’s return marks a significant milestone for the Pacific submarine force and demonstrates the Navy’s ability to sustain and employ advanced Virginia-class... The post USS Minnesota

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The Chinese Navy’s most numerous class of guided-missile destroyers can launch long-range hypersonic anti-ship missiles, state military media announced this week. A trailer released on Wednesday for a docuseries showcased the launch of a YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile from a People’s Liberation Army Navy Type 052D-class guided-missile destroyer. YJ-20 was previously seen in media highlighting

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Traffic levels in the Strait of Hormuz last week dropped yet again, bringing the flow of ships through the Middle East passageway to levels not seen since March, shortly after the conflict between Iran and the United States began. Transits were down 52.4 percent between July 20 and Sunday from July 13-19, according to London-based Lloyd’s List Intelligence. From July 19 to Sunday, daily transits w

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Beijing surged an amphibious group and bombers equipped for maritime strike to Scarborough Shoal over the weekend, flexing its power projection capabilities at the disputed South China Sea maritime feature 120 nautical miles off the Philippines. Chinese forces took to the air and the water around Scarborough Shoal for a series of drills. According to a Saturday news release f

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By John Babick The Pentagon’s artificial intelligence strategy documents promise decision advantage at scale. Defense contractors pitch predictive logistics and machine-speed targeting. The narrative is seductive… and largely irrelevant to a destroyer executive officer (XO) at sea. At the deckplate level, the questions are fundamentally different. To the degree that an XO has time to &

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By Meng Kit Tang Markets Close Before Missiles Fire Tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf fell from 138 transits to fewer than eight within days of insurers withdrawing war-risk coverage in 2026. No ships were seized nor missiles were fired. Rather, the market closed the water before any navy could. That episode clarifies the problem … Continue reading The Insurance Trigger: Sovereign Guarantee

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By Joseph Hanacek and Josh Richards Building the Airborne Asymmetry In the predawn hours of June 1, 2025, a revolution in warfighting unfolded across Russia’s western airfields. Nearly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian frontlines, Kyiv launched Operation Spiderweb, a coordinated strike of hundreds of weaponized drones aimed at five Russian air bases.1 The machines were … Continue reading The Ar

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The Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft may fly scores of missions over many years or only a few if commanders decide a mission is worth the risk of losing one, a top official said this week—a middle ground approach he called “optionally attritable.” The post Air Force Official: CCAs Will Be ‘Optionally Attritable’ appeared first on Air & Space Forces Magazine.

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Air Force bases inside the U.S. are heavily guarded, but they could fall victim to the same type of spectacular drone attack that struck bomber bases deep inside Russia last year, retired Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, former head of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, said July 30. The post Former NORAD Boss: Air Bases in US Vulnerable to Ukraine-Style Drone Attack appeared first on Air & Spac

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The Air Force’s plan to start production on a new engine for the B-52H Stratofortress before conducting critical flight tests runs the risk of cost overruns and more schedule delays, government auditors said in a new report released July 31. The post GAO Warns B-52 Modernization Is Falling Behind appeared first on Air & Space Forces Magazine.

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  US, British, and Australian defence innovation organisations can learn from Canada and New Zealand, which are jointly focusing on faster, mission-driven challenges to achieve operational capability. Canada and New Zealand are demonstrating that defence ...

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No one should expect diplomatic pressure alone to make Beijing abandon a sovereignty claim. Ten years ago this month, a tribunal constituted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea handed China one ...

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North Korea’s naval modernisation is still in its early stages. Much of its surface and submarine fleet remains outdated, while its more ambitious shipbuilding and undersea programs face serious technical and operational obstacles. However, it ...

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Washington can preserve its influence in the Middle East while rightsizing US military commitments in the region to better align with its strategic interests. The post How to reset US-Gulf security partnerships appeared first on Atlantic Council.

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Muscat should ask the British- and French-led maritime security mission to deploy to the strait within Omani territorial waters. The post How Oman and Europe can open the Strait of Hormuz for good appeared first on Atlantic Council.

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Iran’s use of a maritime chokepoint as a geopolitical tool—implemented in response to a war that violates the United Nations Charter—and the United States’ inconsistent response dramatically undermine the global maritime order and open the door for further such closures. The post The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is a heavy blow to the deteriorating maritime order appeared first on Atlantic Counc

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US pressure failed to stop Huawei from dominating global 5G telephone networks. It could do better with the next generation. The post China Won the 5G Battle. Will It Win the 6G War? appeared first on CEPA.

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Western engagement with Chinese biotech is accelerating. It’s dangerous. The post The West Must Confront China’s Biotech Offensive appeared first on CEPA.

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The Kremlin’s on-again-off-again campaign to intimidate and disorientate European allies is picking up once more. The post Russia’s Shadow War Surges Southward appeared first on CEPA.

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In February 2026, the United States and Israel initiated a war in the Middle East against Iran. Since then, the warring sides have oscillated between strikes, a fragile ceasefire, and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz. Open hostilities resumed in mid-July. More recently, the Houthis in Yemen have threatened Saudi shipping through the Bab al-Mandab, raising the risk to shipping through that crit

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Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be unserious. As the Chinese military fundamentally rethinks biological warfare and Russia continues to use chloropicrin in Ukraine, hypothetical scenarios of AI-enabled bioweapons dominate the headlines. If national security leaders and unconven

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The release of the Chinese open-weight AI model Kimi K3 has compressed a year’s worth of unresolved AI policy debate into a single news cycle. On July 21, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese labs found to have built their models on “theft,” reporting that the government is “finding watermarks of our U.S. large language models on many of the

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AI-powered command systems are becoming the backbone of modern warfare. NATO needs shared standards, but if those rest on American software, interoperability will come at the price of dependence.

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Establishing durable domestic mineral supply chains will likely require closer coordination between US defense primes as well as small businesses and new entrants, says Abigail Hunter.

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Experiments involving 3D printing and launching missiles from uncrewed vessels were expected to take place among high-end warfighting training.

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The deal will allow Northrop to stand up production as a second supplier of solid rocket motors for the PAC-3 interceptor.

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For thirty years, Army modernization has pursued increasingly capable weapon systems. But capability is not combat power. Combat power is capability that survives contact with war. Until modernization initiatives measure […] The post When Lethality Isn’t Enough: The Army and the Missing Element of Combat Power appeared first on Modern War Institute.

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Hidden near the front line, a signal antenna intercepts a surge in Russian radio chatter, indicating a possible command node. Ukrainian soldiers dispatch a drone to the coordinates, where a […] The post From Collection to Decision: Reimagining Tactical Intelligence appeared first on Modern War Institute.

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Every major war reshapes how future wars are fought. Victory and defeat matter, but they are rarely a conflict’s only legacy. Wars expose weaknesses that peacetime exercises fail to reveal, […] The post No Place to Hide: Warfare in the Age of Persistent Observation appeared first on Modern War Institute.