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The Pentagon’s main portal for AI tools now offers ChatGPT alongside Google Gemini, officials are set to announce today.A Defense Department official said the OpenAI product, dubbed ChatGPT Mil, would bring new strengths to GenAI.mil, where troops and defense civilians can use generative-AI tools to work on controlled, unclassified information, or CUI.“Gemini, I like for search functionality or scraping certain sources. Chat for more, like, text-based work,” said the official, who requested anonymity to speak before the official announcement. “We want to have access to all these different models, so people, if they prefer one for a certain task, they…

Indonesia has been one of the most supportive countries in Southeast Asia when it comes to the rise of digital banking. In 2016, the Jenius banking app was launched by Bank BTPN (later acquired by SMBC). It was one of Indonesia’s first large-scale digital banking apps, and grew very quickly. This coincided with a tech sector boom the government was keen to support, and financial services authority OJK quickly passed a regulation in 2018 allowing more commercial banks to provide digital banking services. This was followed by a 2021 regulation governing the launch of fully digital banks, which are standalone…

US Air Force F-16 Block 70 fighter jet. Credit: Sanit Fuangnakhon/Shutterstock.com. Lockheed Martin has proposed an industrial and social partnership package valued at $1.8bn to Peru, linked to the US prime’s F-16 Block 70 fighter jet offer. The initiative, unveiled as part of ongoing negotiations, outlines a set of measures aimed at deepening the defence relationship and supporting the growth of Peru’s industrial sector. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more According to Lockheed Martin, the package includes plans for joint production of defence…

The lounge room of the teak villa has a seated figure of the Bogyoke (General) absorbed in a book. A dining table is set with his favorite meal of steamed yellow peas with naan. An upstairs bedroom has a crib-style cot for his two-year-old daughter, Suu Kyi. Objects displayed at the Bogyoke Aung San Museum in Yangon offer a snapshot of General Aung San’s domestic routine shortly before tragedy ripped the family apart. On July 19, 1947, the de facto leader of British Burma was assassinated by gunmen a few months before the nation gained independence. Several cabinet members were…

A decade has passed since Japan proposed the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) initiative. The “Updated FOIP,” announced in May 2026, carries on the original philosophy while adding a new focus on AI and data infrastructure, supply chains for energy and critical goods, public-private sector market co-creation, and security cooperation. It marks a shift from philosophy to building regional resilience in practice. Asian growth has benefited from interdependence, but that same interdependence has created vulnerabilities. Disruptions to navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea ripple outward to affect Japan and ASEAN through…

In this edition of the Middle East Defense Digest, Breaking Defense Middle East Bureau Chief Agnes Helou dives into a potential $4.5B sale of four KC-46A refueling aircraft to Qatar, as well as an anticipated surge in Turkish Hürjet exports and the US military’s new multinational, multi-domain drone task force known as Falcon Strike. Helou then turns to Breaking Defense Contributing Editor Riad Kahwaji for regional insight into the newly-announced trilateral defense pact linking Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. This new arrangement could energize all three nations’ defense industries, as Helou reported this week.   Source link

Vietnam’s government on Friday expressed its opposition to “illegal” reclamation and construction activities in the Paracel Islands, after reports emerged of fresh Chinese construction activities in the contested South China Sea archipelago. On August 14, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) reported that China had completed land reclamation at Antelope Reef in the Paracels, and appeared to be working on new infrastructure on the island. AMTI, which is run by the Washington-based Center of Strategic and International Studies, said that “the first signs of major infrastructure at the new artificial island have emerged,” including a “likely airstrip.” Reuters then reported…

The FBI seized three internet domains Wednesday that prosecutors say Chinese government-backed hackers used to target U.S. agencies, critical infrastructure and other networks.The Justice Department attributed the tools, known as QScan and QTRouter, to a hacking group called QTFY. Court records say the group operates through Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, a private Chinese firm that sold hacking services to China’s main civilian intelligence agency and its military.The group targeted networks belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Senate and the Energy, Justice and Health and Human Services departments, according to an FBI affidavit.…

The National Security Agency wants access to artificial intelligence models across the commercial market and is holding extensive discussions with leading developers as it moves to carry out new White House directives on the technology, the agency’s deputy director said Thursday.“We want access to all the models, and we’re going to take advantage of that,” Tim Kosiba said on a panel at an Intelligence and National Security event in Bethesda, Maryland.Kosiba said NSA has used AI in various forms for decades, but the rapidly improving capabilities of newer systems are driving a more aggressive effort to obtain and deploy the…

When a Marine planner is trying to determine whether a deployed unit has everything it needs, they must query several separate databases while cross-referencing supply levels, maintenance records, and more to create a spreadsheet. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, is hoping an AI-powered logistics platform can make that process much faster and easier.Defense tech company Tagup on Thursday announced a modification to its $2.1 million Small Business Innovation Research contract that will extend the use of its Manifest platform to certain theater sustainment cases in support of MARFORPAC. The platform is already being used by a handful of Marine units at…