Defense Secretary Hegseth says military support for Scouts hinges on ending 'woke' merit badges

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The US military has long-standing ties with Scouting, with many bases hosting Scout troops.
The US military has long-standing ties with Scouting, with many bases hosting Scout troops.

Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Wright/US Marine Corps

It's not just Harvard. The Pentagon is barring troops from attending more Ivy League schools and other top universities.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has moved to bar troops from attending more elite schools.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has moved to bar troops from attending more elite schools.

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Sam Altman navigates Anthropic's Pentagon fight as OpenAI pursues its own deal with the military

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Sam Altman speaks during an event
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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The US Army wants to track ammo and supplies at war like you'd track an Amazon package

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A soldier sits at a desk and looks at a computer inside a tent.
NGC2 has been developed through an iterative process involving soldiers, leadership, and command.

US Army photo by Spc. Samuel Brandon

Videos show how Ukrainian helicopter crews use machine guns to hunt Russia's exploding Shahed drones

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Thermal imagery from a gun camera aimed at a delta-wing drone.
Thermal camera footage shows the Ukrainian helicopter crew firing at a delta-wing drone.

Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Twitter

Anthropic says it can't agree to the military's AI use terms — then it got slammed by an official

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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A second airspace mix-up is unfolding over Texas as lawmakers say the US military shot down a Border Protection drone

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A US Border Patrol vehicle sits next to a road near Fort Hancock.
Three lawmakers said the Customs and Border Protection drone was shot down by a "high risk" counter-drone system.

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Ukraine says its homegrown Flamingo missiles flew nearly 900 miles to strike an Iskander factory deep inside Russia

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A Tomahawk missile is seen mounted on a factory platform.
Ukraine has been touting the Flamingo as an alternative or complement to the long-range Tomahawk.

Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo

Shield AI says its Hivemind AI pilot just flew a drone vying to become a future Air Force uncrewed wingman

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A grey and blue aircraft flies against a clear blue sky.
Hivemind flew Anduril's YFQ-44A aircraft for the first time in a test over the Mojave Desert.

Shield AI

What happened after Elon Musk took the Russian army offline

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A computer screen
Drone footage gathered by the Ukrainian military shows widespread battlefield use of Starlink terminals by Russian troops.

Viktor Lysenko/BI

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