DEFENSEUS · 27 AUG
US Air Force drone defence starts with AI and ends with shotguns
Airmen used AI detection to separate drone threats from ordinary aerial traffic before engaging.
By Business Insider
Lead/Defense · Kyiv
Autonomous swarms now hold the line at the front
Coordinated loitering munitions and ground effectors are rewriting the casualty curve. Our field desk logged three engagements where the kill chain closed before a human ever fired.
By M. Keller·6 min read·14:02 UTC
Fig. 01 — Field capture, sector 9
The RiverGlobal dispatches · live
DEFENSE
UK and Ukraine sign AI defence partnership on battlefield technology
London and Kyiv formalise joint work on battlefield AI, drawing on three years of front-line data.
24 AUG
DEFENSE
Lockheed Martin tests AI battle manager for Guam missile defence
A battle-management prototype for the Guam Defense System ran at Fort Bliss, Texas.
27 AUG
AI
Ukrainian AI-guided drone hits target despite Russian jamming
Autonomy holds terminal guidance under electronic warfare, raising the stakes on machine-decided strikes.
29 AUG
PHYS AI
China's embodied AI push targets humanoid dominance
State-backed labs and factories are scaling embodied models faster than Western equivalents.
28 AUG
PHYS AI
Sanctuary AI starts selling the robot brain, not just the body
The company opens its control stack to third-party hardware makers.
29 AUG
ResearchPeer-reviewed · open
Resilient Attention Under Adversarial Compute Throttling
A. Okafor · L. Brandt · Helvetia Institute
arXiv 2604.0192 · PDF 4.1 MB
Grounding Physical Agents in Sparse, Sensor-Degraded Worlds
Y. Tanaka · R. Mehta · Aurora Robotics Lab
arXiv 2604.0087 · PDF 6.8 MB
Verifiable Autonomy: Formal Bounds for Lethal Force Pipelines
S. Novak · D. Iwu · Meridian Defence Research
arXiv 2604.0031 · PDF 3.3 MB
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