The problem with war has always been the humans. We humans are inefficient. We get tired. We get killed. That is the view of a Marine Corps colonel named Drew Cukor, who arrived at the conclusion that ...
Project Maven, a secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver the U.S. into an age of AI warfare, is the subject of a new book by Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson. Manson speaks with Mary ...
The rise of AI warfare speaks to the biggest moral and practical question there is: Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost? In 2018, more than 3,000 Google workers ...
The Pentagon intends to accelerate AI-enabled decision-making and put it at the heart of its ambition to link up sensors and shooters for combat operations, according to a policy memo seen by ...
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The interface of the Maven Smart System being demonstrated by a member of the Alaska National Guard at the Joint Operations Center on Joint Base-Elmendorf Richardson in the US on 11 July 2025. (Alaska ...
A Pentagon official recently demonstrated how a Palantir tool can be used to support strikes. Cameron Staley, the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer, praised Palantir's Project Maven. According ...
NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working ...
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...