When Andrii Gidzun and Vitalii Ivashchuk lost limbs fighting the Russian invaders of their country, the Ukraine-based Superhumans Center fitted them with 3D-printed “bionic” prostheses, robot arms designed to respond to the movements in their arm muscles. Now able to do simple tasks, like holding a coffee mug or putting on a shirt, both are already thinking about returning to the front and resuming their duties.
Their prostheses are called “Hero Arms,” and are produced by United Kingdom-based Open Bionics, which makes each arm to order based on the specific user’s shape.
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Metacgnition – or ‘meta-AI’ – may be the next step in quality assurance of data retrieved by generative AI tools in defence training.
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America’s defense establishment is rightly excited about the potential of unmanned ships. Companies like Saronic, Havoc.ai, Saildrone, and Blue Water Autonomy are developing fast, lethal, and scalable autonomous systems that could define the Navy’s future fleet. These firms, flush with venture capital and successful demonstrations, promise to rewrite maritime supremacy. And, it should be said upfront that as a commercial real estate advisor currently focused on these issues, I have a professional stake in these issues.
While the United States remains the global leader in space capabilities, its ecosystem shows fragility. Emerging space powers like Turkey, India, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates have adopted flexible, multi-vector space and defense strategies. These countries provide lessons in adaptability, resilience, and co-development in a multipolar world. They offer potential models that can enrich how Washington approaches capability development and alliance management.
Israeli aircraft targeted the bunker of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on June 16, according to a report by the Iranian state-affiliated media outlet Fars. The president was slightly injured in the attack, which was part of a broader air campaign launched against the country from June 13-24. Six bombs of unknown size targeted access points to a secret underground facility in western Tehran, where the president and other senior officials were attending a meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
U.S. President Donald Trump has stated that up to 17 MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems could be donated to equip the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “A couple of countries who have Patriots are going to swap them out. We have one country that has 17 Patriots getting ready to be shipped. They’re not going to need them. So we’re going to work again where the 17 will go, or a big portion of the 17 will go,” he stated, adding “That could be done very quickly.
The Pentagon announced Monday it is going to spend almost $1 billion on “agentic AI workflows” from four “frontier AI” companies, including Elon Musk’s xAI, whose flagship Grok appeared to still be declaring itself “MechaHitler” as late as Monday afternoon.