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MENASource April 7, 2026 • 5:35 pm ET Print this page By Judd Olanoff In an industrial zone on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, Emirati state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) company G42 has poured 100,000 cubic meters of concrete to build a cluster of data centers the size of Berkeley, California. The campus will use NVIDIA chips and Oracle cloud services. It will deploy a region-specific version of ChatGPT across the government and vital sectors. It is the largest AI infrastructure project outside the United States, and it’s built on US technology. Five hundred miles to the west, in Riyadh, the…

GOLETA, Calif., — April 7, 2026 — Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), today announced an upgrade to Prism™ SKR (pronounced “seeker”), evolving the software from automated targeting into a unified, closed-loop autonomy platform. The milestone update sets a new defense industry standard by unifying mission execution and intelligent supervision into a single platform for guided weapon systems, including smart, loitering munitions, air-launched effects (ALE), counter-UAS platforms, attritables, interceptors, and first-person view (FPV) drones. Teledyne FLIR OEM’s upgraded Prism SKR software manages the entire mission lifecycle, from tasking through execution by delivering perception-based automatic target recognition (ATR)…

We introduce a conceptual framework and provide considerations for the institutional design of AI incident reporting (IR) systems, i.e., processes for collecting information about safety- and rights-related events caused by general-purpose AI. As general-purpose AI systems are increasingly adopted, they are causing more real-world harms and displaying the potential to cause significantly more dangerous incidents—events that did or could have caused harm to individuals, property, or the environment. Through a literature review, we develop a framework for understanding the institutional design of AI incident reporting systems, which includes seven dimensions: policy goal, actors submitting and receiving reports, type of incidents…

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Terry Gerton We talked back when the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act first came out about the new cost accounting standards thresholds that were included there. And the Cost Accounting Standards Board is now out with a draft rule to implement the law. Comments due April 20th. We’ll dig into those particulars, but before we do, just refresh our memory. What is the problem that the NDAA and the new rule are trying to solve? Dan Ramish So Terry, the cost accounting standards have been in place since the 1970s, and the requirements are among the most onerous regulatory burdens…

Sergio Pettis has a familiarity fighting in Chicago, being a local area favorite in a certain regard, but there are some unique ingredients here this weekend. Some people thought that the former Bellator MMA titleholder would be in a championship fight scenario potentially but is instead clashing with a promotional debutant in the PFL Smart Cage. When offering up the timeline piece for how this Mitch McKee headlining bout at PFL Chicago on April 11th came to be, Pettis said [via Bowks Talking Bouts], “This was just an interesting matchup in general. They gave Mitch McKee a big opportunity to…

There’s a moment in modern naval warfare where everything changes, when a single missile doesn’t just do one job, but three… maybe more. That moment? It’s largely defined by the Standard Missile-6.At first glance, the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) might sound like just another piece of military hardware tucked into the vast arsenal of the U.S. Navy. But spend a few minutes with it, and you start to realize, this isn’t just a missile. It’s more like a Swiss Army knife traveling at over three times the speed of sound.Here’s the twist: most missiles are built with a single purpose. Some…

Born in Newgulf, near Corpus Christi, Texas, on Nov. 6, 1924, Michael Castaneda Pena chose his calling as a man of action early in life. He didn’t complete the sixth grade, but in 1940, after lying about his age, he persuaded his mother to sign a release allowing him to enlist at the young age of 16. Mike, as his comrades-in-arms universally called him, spent World War II fighting in the Pacific and helping to liberate the Philippines. He was wounded twice over the course of the conflict and after the Japanese surrender, he served in the occupation of Japan.…

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A dark turn-based management game about prisoner quotas, heretic hunts, revolt, and supernatural horror is heading to Steam in 2026. Steam Veil Games has released information on their upcoming turn-based roguelite Dark Rail. The game takes place in a grim industrial border town. Players will oversee the Inquisitions’ operations and make decisions regarding production, prisoner delivery quotas, and controlling revolt while fighting off supernatural threats. It features you as ruler of an industrial settlement, hunter of heretics, killer of mythical creatures, and sacrificer of prisoners to stop a supernatural plague from spreading. Inquisitors are sent by train to hunt down…