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The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity

GREENVILLE, Pitt County — Artificial intelligence is helping military analysts sort through large amounts of information, identify potential threats and build a clearer picture of situations that could affect military operations.

The Pentagon recently established a new task force that’s charged with rapidly iterating and advancing weaponized drones and small uncrewed ground vehicles across the U.S. military.

Arlington, VA | October 7, 2026 — The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies announces a new entry in its Forum Paper series, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations: The Imperative of Human Judgment by Maj Gen Thomas D. Taverney, USAF (Ret.).

China and the United States agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between President Xi Jinping and President Trump in Washington, the two governments said Saturday.

An intelligence report disclosing that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program immediately set off alarm bells across the US military before it was determined that the intelligence was false, a Friday CNN report revealed. 

CNN’s sources claim the US nearly attacked a Chinese ship it believed was carrying nuclear weapon components.

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