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18h ago
Army wants troops learning new tech well before combat training
The Army says troops should receive new technology, especially drones, at least 180 days before combat training so they have time to learn and integrate it at home station. Leaders say introducing sys...
Business Insider
1w ago
Ukraine is developing AI-assisted strike missiles in a first
Ukraine is developing AI-assisted strike missiles for the first time, marking a major expansion of its autonomous weapons program beyond drones. Brave1 said multiple companies are working on AI-enable...
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Business Insider
1w ago
The US Army is betting on new AI navigation for its vehicles when GPS is jammed
The US Army has awarded defense tech company TERN an $11.26 million contract to install AI-based navigation and vehicle monitoring tools on Army vehicles. The system is designed to work without GPS or...
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Business Insider
1w ago
OpenAI pulls out of Caltech math hackathon after mathematicians issue open letter criticizing AI math 'slop'
OpenAI said it will no longer sponsor Caltech’s “math hackathon” after current and former Caltech mathematicians signed an open letter warning that AI-backed events could harm the field. The letter cr...
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Business Insider
1w ago
US Marines are training to jam enemy drones before they can reach US amphibious assault ships
Marines with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit trained aboard the USS Makin Island to defend amphibious assault ships from hostile drones using the Light Marine Air-Defense Integrated System (L-MADIS...
NATO militaries aim to have 5 times as many drone operators ready for a new kind of war by the end of next year
NATO has announced a major expansion of its drone warfare preparation, aiming to train five times as many drone operators by 2027. The plan was unveiled by Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO Sum...
Mark Rutte · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · NATO · Business Insider
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Ukraine's point system rewarding battlefield kills is steering drone units toward more strategic Russian targets
Ukraine’s “e-Points” system is reshaping how front-line units choose targets by rewarding them for destroying Russian soldiers and equipment, then letting them spend points on military gear through th...
Kateryna Stepanenko · Dmytro "Liber" Zhluktenko · Business Insider · Institute for the Study of War
Ukraine's point system rewarding battlefield kills is steering drone units toward more strategic Russian targets
Ukraine’s “e-Points” system is reshaping how frontline units choose targets by rewarding strikes that align with broader military priorities. Under the program, soldiers earn points for destroying Rus...
Kateryna Stepanenko · Dmytro Zhluktenko · Business Insider · Institute for the Study of War
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Ukraine's point system rewarding battlefield kills is steering drone units toward more strategic Russian targets
Ukraine’s “e-Points” system is reshaping how front-line units choose targets by rewarding them for destroying Russian soldiers and equipment, then letting them spend points on military gear through th...
Kateryna Stepanenko · Dmytro "Liber" Zhluktenko · Business Insider · Institute for the Study of War
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Workers are spending over 6 hours a week 'botsitting' AI, fueling job frustration
A new Glean Work AI Institute report suggests that AI is creating as much extra work as it saves. Surveying 6,000 full-time white-collar workers in the US, UK, and Australia, researchers found employe...
Rebecca Hinds · Juliana Kaplan · Business Insider · Glean
Ukraine lined its roads with enough anti-drone netting this year to cover the length of Florida
Ukraine has dramatically expanded its use of anti-drone netting along frontline roads, installing 822 kilometers, or about 510 miles, this year alone, according to its defense ministry. That amount is...
Matthew Loh · Ukraine's defense ministry · Business Insider
Zelenskyy makes a pitch to Silicon Valley's defense startups: Bring your AI, we'll bring the battle experience
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging Silicon Valley defense startups to work more closely with Ukraine, arguing that the country’s battlefield experience and American AI technology could ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Business Insider · CBS News
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Russia says its new anti-drone turret fires programmable rounds that calculate when to explode
Russia’s state-owned defense firm Rostec has unveiled a new stationary anti-drone turret called the ZAK-30 Citadel, designed to defend against quadcopters and fixed-wing drones. The system uses progra...
Yevhen Titov · Business Insider · Rostec
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Why militaries well-equipped to fight enemy aircraft and missiles may still struggle to confront the drone threat
Western militaries are increasingly facing a drone threat that their air-defense systems were not originally designed to handle. Unlike aircraft and missiles, drones are small, slow, low-flying, and o...
Justin Bronk · Kristian Brost · Business Insider · Royal United Services Institute
A company helping US allies counter Iran's drones in the Middle East says its tech wouldn't be where it is without Ukraine
Dutch radar company Robin Radar says its counter-drone technology was significantly shaped by experience in Ukraine, where it has had systems deployed since 2023. The firm says battlefield feedback fr...
Kristian Brost · Siete Hamminga · Robin Radar · Business Insider
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Army Special Forces sergeant pleads not guilty to charges that he used military secrets to win $400K on Polymarket
An Army Special Forces sergeant, Gannon Van Dyke, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Manhattan to charges that he used classified military information to profit on Polymarket. Prosecutors allege t...
Gannon Van Dyke · Nicolás Maduro · Polymarket · Business Insider
Ukraine's Soviet-era 'Shahed hunter' turboprop plane is launching interceptor drones from the sky
Ukraine is adapting its Soviet-era Antonov An-28 turboprop aircraft into an airborne launcher for interceptor drones used against Russian Shahed loitering munitions. Video posted by Ukrainian pilot Ty...
Tymur Fatkullin · Business Insider · Wild Hornets
Ukraine said it captured a Russian position using only ground robots and drones, no infantry, for the first time
Ukraine has achieved a significant milestone in modern warfare by capturing a Russian position using only ground robots and drones, without any infantry involvement. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anno...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Oleksandr Klymenko · NATO · DevDroid
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Marines say the best attack drone pilots might be dirt bikers, not gamers
Marines have discovered that the best attack drone pilots may not be gamers, but rather individuals with backgrounds in outdoor activities like dirt biking and boating. This insight comes from the 1st...
Tyler Wilson · Mike Olivarez · US Marine Corps · 1st Marine Division
Ukraine is developing interceptor drone swarms to defend against Russian attacks
Ukraine is advancing its defense capabilities against Russian aerial assaults by developing interceptor drone swarms. This initiative involves multiple Ukrainian companies, coordinated by Brave1, a go...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Brave1 · Business Insider
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Polymarket bettors tried to make a reporter change his story about Iran missile strike — or else
An Israeli journalist, Emanuel Fabian, reported experiencing harassment from users of Polymarket, a prediction market platform, after he published a story about an Iranian missile strike. The harassme...
Emanuel Fabian · Chris Murphy · Polymarket · The Times of Israel
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NATO's Arctic artillery forces are learning to dig, hide, and move to dodge drones
NATO's Arctic artillery forces are adapting their strategies to counter the increasing threat of drones, a lesson drawn from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. In a training exercise in Setermoen, Norwa...
Kay-Arne Schjetne · Robin McArthur · NATO · British Army
US Army officers say battlefield leaders facing new drone threats have another problem to deal with — it's information overload
U.S. Army leaders are raising concerns about "cognitive overload" for commanders on modern battlefields, exacerbated by an influx of information from various technologies amid evolving warfare dynamic...
Andrew Kang · Gabriel Glazer · US Army · Business Insider
The same air defense systems that shield Washington, DC 24/7 have arrived in Ukraine from the US as Russia batters cities with missiles and suicide drones
The United States has delivered National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Ukraine, enhancing the country's air defense capabilities amid ongoing Russian missile and drone attacks. U...
Oleksii Reznikov · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Raytheon Technologies · Kongsberg Defence Aerospace
Satellite images show an Iranian warship burning pierside after US and Israeli strikes
Recent satellite images reveal an Iranian warship ablaze at the Konarak naval base, following extensive airstrikes by the US and Israel. This operation, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, was initiated after...
Trump · Institute for the Study of War
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businessinsider.com
Feb 11
Russian troops installed giant steel weed whackers on a vehicle to fend off drone attacks
Russian troops are developing an innovative anti-drone defense system in Zaporizhzhia, utilizing large, spinning steel cables attached to a vehicle. This mechanism, resembling a giant weed whacker, is...
Struk · Business Insider · Russian state TV channel Smotrim
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businessinsider.com
Jan 23
Ukraine's pay-per-kill system against Russian Shaheds helped it get 40,000 interceptor drones in a month, official says
Ukraine has implemented a pay-per-kill system to counter Russian Shahed drones, offering $20,000 for each downed drone. This initiative has reportedly enabled Ukraine to acquire 40,000 interceptor dro...
Mykhailo Fedorov · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · NATO · Business Insider
businessinsider.com
Jan 6
No single piece of tech is going to defeat all drone threats, new US counter-drone force commander says
The Pentagon's Joint Interagency Task Force 401 emphasizes that no single technology can effectively counter all drone threats, highlighting the need for a layered defense system. The task force, oper...
Matt Ross · Wesley Domalewski · Joint Interagency Task Force 401 · US Marine Corps
businessinsider.com
Dec 25
AI CEOs say automation with AI is harder than it looks
In a recent discussion on the "Bg2 Pod," CEOs Ali Ghodsi of Databricks and Arvind Jain of Glean highlighted the challenges of AI automation, asserting that it is far more complex than many leaders ant...
Ali Ghodsi · Arvind Jain · Databricks · Glean
businessinsider.com
Dec 25
Ukrainian soldiers have incredible tactical patience and are far happier moving slowly than the British military
Ukrainian troops have demonstrated a unique tactical approach during training with British military instructors, emphasizing a slower, more deliberate pace that contrasts with the British tendency for...
Maj. Maguire · Viktor Fridshon · Business Insider · UK armed forces