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Persistent surveillance over the modern battlefield is forcing NATO leaders to rethink command and control and disperse unnecessarily large troop formations that could be easy targets for enemy airstrikes.French Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, told Business Insider in a recent interview that constant surveillance and the growing…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lindsay Tanne Howe, 37, who is based in Connecticut. She is the founder and CEO of LogicPrep, a global college advisory firm serving ultra-high-net-worth families. Business Insider has verified her educational background. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.A…
The US military’s first-ever sea-drone strike, carried out in Iran earlier this month, is opening up a new way of warfighting for NATO, a top commander overseeing the alliance’s modernization told Business Insider.”I think it’s coming,” French Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, said in an interview this…
Anxious after the shock removal of Ukraine’s reformist defense minister, the country’s front-line troops say that they’ve found some solace in a new appointment for another key war role — commander in chief.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed 43-year-old Brig. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi as the country’s new top general on Tuesday.For…
A top White House official publicly accused Moonshot AI of essentially stealing from Anthropic, intensifying the debate over China-based open source AI models.”We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology…
When Israel’s top air defense system first came online more than two decades ago, the idea that it might one day be used to battle hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles seemed far-fetched to some.”I can tell you that I didn’t imagine that we would use Arrow as much as we…
Uber has a new approach to using AI: “Agentic pods.”Praveen Neppalli Naga, the ride-hailing company’s tech chief, said in an X post on Tuesday that Uber embedded 30 of its “most AI-proficient engineers” with teams across the company, including finance, legal, and human resources.Over two weeks, the engineers worked with…
Humanoid robots have become the mascot of Silicon Valley’s physical AI boom.They dance in viral videos, bang out tunes on the piano, and are headed to Wall Street as Agility Robotics plans to go public. They promise a new workforce that never sleeps, never ages, and can work in spaces…
AI is coming for millions of American jobs, but that doesn’t mean the work will disappear for good.Joseph Briggs, who leads the global economics team at Goldman Sachs Research, said on a recent episode of the bank’s “Exchanges” podcast that he expects about 9% of the US workforce to be…
Evolving drone and missile threats, from Europe to the Middle East, are pushing the Marine Corps to move faster on critical air-defense programs, a top Marine general said last week.The Marine Corps is investing in new air-defense systems, including the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, but Lt. Gen. Eric Austin,…
