Journalist. From the lab to the front line. AI at https://xitter.cf/t.co/nUNCd6AcMj, defense tech at https://xitter.cf/t.co/ICi1q3ulcL. Reporting from San Francisco.
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X-Bow Will Build the Booster Motors for CoAspire's Navy CHAOS Cruise Missile
CoAspire picked X-Bow Systems to develop and produce the solid rocket boosters for its ground-launched RAACM-ER under the Navy's CHAOS program, built for allies.
#USA #Navy
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Poland Gets Europe's Patriot Repair Shop. Ukraine Got 24 Interceptors in 90 Days
Washington picked Poland for Europe's only PAC-3 maintenance hub on Oct. 27. It services missiles allies already hold, from about a year out.
#Ukraine #Europe #AirDefense
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RAF Chief Wants Four Armed AI Drones With Every Typhoon by 2030
Britain's air chief made "autonomy, not flesh" RAF doctrine, tying the £300 million Storm Fighter drones to Ukraine's deep strikes and a shrinking workforce.
#Europe #Autonomy
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Swarmer, a swarm-autonomy software company, is buying the airframes and firing electronics its code runs on, days before shareholders vote on its first Ukrainian hardware deal.
#Ukraine #Autonomy
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NEW: We got the list of “Business Deals” the US and Russia are discussing.
They include a potential return by US companies to the Russian oil market as part of wider talks to end Putin’s war, including JVs in Sakhalin and restoring the Druzhba pipeline:
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🇺🇸❗️Behind US President Donald Trump’s turn towards Russia are promises of lucrative deals from Kirill Dmitriev, - Le Monde
A journalistic source present at the talks on October 9 said that on that day, Witkoff preferred to talk about business.
Budanov was stunned by the project, which would make Kyiv dependent on Moscow. “Our model is not Belarus, but Poland!”, he objected.
The interlocutor close to President Zelensky, added that negotiating with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner is now “hopeless, they only think about business.”
At the same time, the Ukrainian delegation noticed that the new theses of Trump and his negotiators are strikingly similar to what Dmitriev constantly says.
Dmitriev plans to invite representatives of the Alternative for Germany to an economic forum in Moscow in December.
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Polish FM Radosław Sikorski:
"There is a myth that has been successfully planted in the West that Russia always wins.
But things don't always go their way.
They lost the Crimean War. They lost the war against Japan. They emerged from World War I with their tails between their legs.
They lost the invasion of Poland. They lost Afghanistan. And they lost the Cold War.
So things can turn out very differently." - @sikorskiradek
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Donald Trump Jr. spent time hunting in Mongolia this summer with Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.
Reports reveal that Trump Jr. arrived in Mongolia in late August, where he was joined by Kremlev and oligarch Artur Martirosov, who flew in from Kazakhstan. The group spent two days together, supported by Kremlev’s staff of chefs, drivers, and local guides.
Records show the US Embassy in Mongolia spent $18,715 on hotel accommodations for a Secret Service detail stationed there from August 23 to September 6. (What does "mah tax dollar" crowd thinks of that, i wonder?)
The trip highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a tycoon with a criminal record who has close ties to Vladimir Putin’s personal security service. Intelligence experts say such connections are ripe for manipulation. ft.trib.al/p0LBRYI
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Judging by the Kremlin readout of Putin’s phone call today with the Finnish and Norwegian leaders, the Russian president hasn’t moved a single inch on the issue of peace in Ukraine despite the recent flurry of diplomatic activity
Just the same old tired talking points
Anthropic pitches safety after system breaches; Microsoft opens the exit door
Meta outlines up to $95 billion in equity financing after third-quarter capital spending exceeds operating cash flow.
#AI
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Superpowers is the second-most-installed Claude Code plugin, yet an independent 500-task Codex test found it added about 625,000 tokens per task for a gain that was not statistically significant.
#AI
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Meta's AI Spending Pushes It to Sell Stock
Meta seeks up to $95 billion for AI, but much of the plan is deferred and chipmakers have made no binding commitment.
#AI
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Microsoft Nudges 60,000 Workers Toward the Exit
Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its staff, with standard severance and a Dec. 31 exit. Its spring retirement offer drew about 30% of those eligible.
#AI
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OPINION: Why Anthropic's Warnings in Its IPO Filing Are Worthless
Anthropic filed its S-1 on October 26, warning that advanced AI could pose catastrophic risk to humanity while offering no enforceable safety commitment.
#AI
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Sweden Hires Four Saildrone Sea Drones Under a Nordic Framework Its Neighbors Can Join
Sweden's FMV signed a NORDEFCO framework with Saildrone for four Voyager surveillance drones in the Baltic.
#Europe #Navy
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Ukraine's Drone Links Are Back. Musk's Terms-of-Service Claim Keeps Them Revocable
Starshield speeds returned on Oct. 24 after Trump reportedly called Musk.
#Ukraine #USA #Drones
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US Special Operations Command Buys Tekever Drones After Acceptance Trials
Tekever's AI-enabled surveillance drones move from a 2025 exercise with US special operators to a purchase, a month after the Portuguese company's $580 million raise.
#Europe #USA
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The Munich drone and software maker is pricing two interceptors still in development below €100,000 each, aimed at jet-powered drones that cost far more to shoot down with existing missiles.
#Europe #AirDefense
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