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🤖 AI processed 20 billion tokens a day in Iran's air war

Maven's 20-billion-token Iran war performance, CYBERCOM's $138M AI request, and Anduril's new missile defense command contract for the Pacific.

🧨 Iran uranium retrieval operation risk rises as ceasefire sputters

May 11, 2026

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🧨 Iran uranium retrieval operation risk rises as ceasefire sputters

BWXT locked in two naval nuclear contracts as U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks collapse and Trump and Netanyahu signal a possible ground operation for Iran's uranium.

💼 Deal Team Six is rewriting defense acquisition

May 9, 2026

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💼 Deal Team Six is rewriting defense acquisition

Pentagon gets laser and microwave counter-drone systems at five installations, France's carrier enters the Hormuz theater, and F/A-XX is elevated to ACAT-1.

🎯 The Pentagon is building AI that aims your rifle

May 8, 2026

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🎯 The Pentagon is building AI that aims your rifle

The Pentagon's AI vendor fallout intensifies, Navy forces disable Iranian tankers at Hormuz, and DIU releases specs for AI-assisted drone targeting down to the infantry squad level.

May 7, 2026

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⚡ DARPA's whisper-quiet drone just flew

NGA is going AI-first with a new blueprint and rapid acquisition office, Ukraine's Raybird can now dodge interceptors mid-mission, and a Super Hornet used its gun to stop a blockade runner.

🌊 Iran blinks on Hormuz, but the deal isn't done

May 6, 2026

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🌊 Iran blinks on Hormuz, but the deal isn't done

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says Hormuz is passable again, as Trump's Project Freedom pauses and deal talks continue, the 82nd Airborne runs the joint kill chain overhead, and Anduril lands the Golden Dome's space-based interceptor lead.

🤖 Pentagon wants to go from $226M to $54B on autonomous warfare

May 5, 2026

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🤖 Pentagon wants to go from $226M to $54B on autonomous warfare

The Strait of Hormuz is heating up, the drone budget is skyrocketing, and the Army is forcing its biggest vendors to connect their systems.

⚡ ThinKom unveils truck-mounted microwave weapon to fry drone swarms

May 4, 2026

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⚡ ThinKom unveils truck-mounted microwave weapon to fry drone swarms

Project Freedom launches in the Strait of Hormuz, Israel orders two new fighter squadrons, and ThinKom's truck-mounted HPM system counters drone swarms without firing a round.

🤖 Seven AI firms cleared for Pentagon's classified networks

May 1, 2026

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🤖 Seven AI firms cleared for Pentagon's classified networks

Anthropic sits out as seven rivals get cleared for classified networks; plus mine-hunting AI, a new Space Force chief, and a stalled $152B spending rollout.

🧠 Scout AI raises $100M to build AI for drone warfare

Apr 30, 2026

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🧠 Scout AI raises $100M to build AI for drone warfare

Scout AI's $100M raise, Firestorm's containerized drone factories, and AeroVironment's new tile-based C-UAS system all point to the same thing: autonomous warfare is scaling fast.

Apr 29, 2026

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🛰️ True Anomaly hits $1B raised

SOCOM is integrating AI at every echelon; the MQ-25A flew for the first time and got delayed again; and True Anomaly crossed $1B raised.

🤖 Ukraine is replacing soldiers with 25,000 robots

Apr 25, 2026

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🤖 Ukraine is replacing soldiers with 25,000 robots

Witkoff lands in Islamabad, Space Force names 12 Golden Dome awardees, and Ukraine targets 25,000 battlefield robots by midyear.

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🤖 AI processed 20 billion tokens a day in Iran's air war

🧨 Iran uranium retrieval operation risk rises as ceasefire sputters

💼 Deal Team Six is rewriting defense acquisition

🎯 The Pentagon is building AI that aims your rifle

⚡ DARPA's whisper-quiet drone just flew

🌊 Iran blinks on Hormuz, but the deal isn't done

🤖 Pentagon wants to go from $226M to $54B on autonomous warfare

⚡ ThinKom unveils truck-mounted microwave weapon to fry drone swarms

🤖 Seven AI firms cleared for Pentagon's classified networks

🧠 Scout AI raises $100M to build AI for drone warfare

🛰️ True Anomaly hits $1B raised

🤖 Ukraine is replacing soldiers with 25,000 robots

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