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Introduction Generative AI (genAI) is rapidly entering healthcare, but public comfort may vary in ways that could undermine equitable adoption. Methods Using two independent cross-sectional survey waves of US adults conducted in May 2023 (N = 3130) and November 2025 (N = 3088) on the Outbreaks Near Me participatory surveillance platform, we assessed changes in awareness of genAI and four comfort and perception measures. Results The percentage of respondents reporting they had heard “a lot” about genAI rose from 26.5% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 24.5, 28.5) to 42.9% (95% CI: 40.6, 45.3), yet overall comfort with AI-led primary care and…

DAYTON, Ohio—Up to six designs could be brought to the prototyping phase of the second round of the Air Force’s drone-wingman effort next year, a service official told reporters on Tuesday.Increment 2 of the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft competition is well underway, Col. Timothy Helfridge, the fighter portfolio acquisition executive, told reporters at the Life Cycle Industry Days conference here. By roughly mid-2027, Helfridge expects, there could be “up to” half a dozen designs.“We have another approximately 10 months left of our concept-refinement contract, where we would expect to have the refined attributes as we did before, as well…

Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced on July 30 that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) had conducted its first live-fire test of a Tomahawk cruise missile aboard the Aegis guided-missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG-176). The test was carried out in the Pacific Ocean on July 29, Japan time, while Chokai was deployed to the United States as part of Japan’s Tomahawk acquisition program, with support from the U.S. Navy. The launch made Japan the third country outside the United States, after Australia and the Netherlands, to fire a Tomahawk from a surface combatant, and the fourth outside the United States…

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Israeli company Axon Vision formed a strategic collaboration with ParaZero to introduce a new integrated configuration that marks the first expansion of the ForceField family to counter the growing drone’s threat. While the initial ForceField configuration is designed to protect manoeuvring forces through an integrated kinetic response, the new integrated solution combines ForceField with DefendAir by ParaZero, the company’s autonomous net-based interceptor system, extending the ForceField family to operational environments where non-destructive interception is preferred, including critical infrastructure, such as airports, homeland security, energy facilities and other sensitive sites, while maintaining a common EDGE AI core across both configurations. Built…

A North Korea-linked hacker group has been tied to four open-source software compromises dating back to March 2025, Amazon researchers said Wednesday, significantly expanding the publicly known scope of Pyongyang’s efforts to use trusted code to reach large numbers of potential victims and gain access to companies’ systems.The assessment for the first time links the same financially-motivated hacking group to compromises of four major JavaScript packages—typo-crypto, debug, chalk and axios—that developers use as building blocks for other software. The axios package alone receives more than 100 million downloads each week, and its compromise had previously been attributed to the North…

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A view of the Thunder Tiger SeaShark 600 USV, which had Shield AI’s Hivemind integrated on it. (Thunder Tiger)Shield AI and Taiwan’s Thunder Tiger Corporation announced on 29 July that they had completed their first demonstration of the Hivemind autonomous teaming system on unmanned surface vessels (USV).Furthermore, this marked the first time that Hivemind has integrated maritime radar and the automatic identification system (AIS). The combination was tested with multiple assets in a maritime environment.Taking place in waters off Pingtung in Taiwan, Thunder Tiger’s SeaShark 600 and SeaShark 800 USVs equipped with Hivemind autonomously executed a coordinated intelligence, surveillance and…

In many ways, the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and the war in Gaza that preceded it seem transformative. After decades of shadow warfare, Iran and Israel have now attacked each other’s homelands directly. And Israel and the United States have joined forces in a genuinely novel way to wage war against Iran. The Islamic Republic has lost its supreme leader of 36 years and much of its defense infrastructure. The Gulf states, once largely able to stay out of harm’s way, have seen their energy facilities, airports, and hotels go up in flames. Hezbollah has dragged Lebanon, which was just…

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, as conflicts in Iran and Ukraine strain U.S. weapons stockpiles.The U.S. has supplied large quantities of ‌weapons to allies while also using munitions in its own military operations in Iran, raising concerns about inventories of key air defense and precision-guided weapons.The Lockheed award converts a previous one-year deal worth $4.7 billion awarded in April into a seven-year draft agreement, creating a multiyear procurement plan for the interceptors from fiscal 2026 through 2032, the Army said.Pentagon negotiators ​are…