The Air Force colonel needed help when he crashed over a mountainous part of Iran's desert, separated from his crewmate, the pilot of the F-15E, after being shot down by Iran in April. The U.S. aviator free-fell to the ground at an estimated 70-100 mph; the Iranian shoulder-fired missile had damaged his parachute. He was the backseater, the weapons-systems officer on a two-man crew with the mission call sign Dude 44. The pilot was Alpha; he was Bravo.
Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet in New Delhi this weekend as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S.-China tensions test the group’s ability to act together.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 13 called on Ukraine to stop targeting Russian oil refineries in light of the surging price of diesel fuel worldwide.
The National Security Agency is set to undergo its most extensive internal restructuring in at least a decade, according to current and former officials briefed on the emerging plan.
Earlier this year, an Iran-linked actor used Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model to scrape and analyze data with the aim of helping target U.S. naval forces in the Middle East. A group in Yemen—very likely Iranian-backed Houthi militants—also used Claude to assist with work on guidance systems for ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Kremlin-backed actors used Anthropic’s Claude AI to program autonomous lethal drones, improve hacking and influence operations, and avoid detection, the company said Sept. 10.
Houthi rebels effectively completed a rapid push to take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coastline on Sept. 11, tightening their grip on one of the world’s most important shipping routes and delivering a dramatic boost to their backers in Iran.
Missile defense in wartime involves many complications. Human operators must deal with high-speed objects, short timelines, and sensor data that isn’t always clear. The Pentagon now wants artificial intelligence that can cut through the confusion.
The Pentagon is close to completely migrating all of the military’s classified systems away from Anthropic models and over to alternate frontier AI vendors, according to Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael.
President Trump and White House AI adviser David Sacks this weekend defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top artificial-intelligence companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development.
An F-22 pilot had to think quickly and work out a plan to save his plane and himself after his jet’s right wheel assembly broke off seconds after a routine takeoff. After an hour of preparing the plane and considering alternatives, the pilot brought the $150 million fighter jet in for a belly landing to defuse the 2024 emergency.
NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it’s clear that the space agency wants to move quickly in establishing the institution.
