Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave the Pentagon and seven AI vendors until July 20 to open their classified-network AI agreements, weeks after Senate defense authorizers wrote human-judgment requirements and a nuclear-launch ban for military AI into their draft policy bill.
The V2U is Russia's autonomous AI strike drone — Nvidia Jetson brain, terrain-matching navigation, and late-2025 builds recovered with no radio link at all: nothing to jam. CSIS assesses Russia has likely fielded a fully autonomous weapon in combat. Maker unknown.
Trump's new AI memo gives the Pentagon 90 days to rewrite its autonomous-weapons rule. Sen. Gallego says that is too fast and wants to know which safeguards survive.
Turkey’s man-portable quadcopter loitering munition — embedded machine-learning autonomy, swarm-capable, and the world’s most cited alleged lethal autonomous weapon system.
A new national security memo tells the Pentagon to onboard frontier commercial AI at speed, strips vendors of the power to shut it down mid-mission, and resets the rules for autonomous weapons within 90 days.