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• International air and space leaders will push unity at conference after prickly NATO summit

  14-07-2026 22:57 via defenseone.com
  
  Following a bumpy NATO conference, air and space military leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and 50 other countries will gather in London this week to discuss future military strategy as President Trump continues his push for allies to spend more on defense.Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the U.S. Air Force chief of staff; Gen. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force’s top uniformed leader; and top U.K. military and government leaders are the scheduled keynote speakers at the Global Air
  
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• How a former Marine is rewriting the future of battlefield AI

  14-07-2026 22:11 via defenseone.com
  
  One stubborn former Marine is changing how the Pentagon moves data to farflung troops—a change intended to enable them to use advanced AI tools, and one that just might reshape how lightweight models are developed.Some of these new workflows have already been used during the U.S. war on Iran.“If you look at what's happened with Operation Epic Fury, in particular, we were able to incorporate dozens of new feeds in real time that allow us to not only serve up that data in the right for
  
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• AI can now power every stage of a cyberattack

  14-07-2026 03:00 via defenseone.com
  
  Just two years ago, hackers were tapping into generative artificial intelligence to probe targets, translate technical material and troubleshoot malicious code. The technology sped up some key parts of a cyber operation, but other stages remained solely in human hands.That line is now beginning to blur. In a range of cyberattacks observed over the past year, AI systems generated commands, tested vulnerabilities, and helped hackers move through victim networks, sometimes carrying out thousands of
  
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