Project Maven

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2027 on Tuesday. On Friday, he faced the same committee to answer why troop deployment to Poland was canceled. Photo by Annabelle Gordon/UPI | License Photo May 15…

‘The Rolling Stones: The Biography’ by Bob Spitz “Hundreds of books have been written about the Rolling Stones, but few sparkle quite like Bob Spitz’s,” said Marc Ballon in the Los Angeles Times . The author, who has previously written doorstop accounts of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin,…

The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, some of which have been declassified, in the first of many drops to come...Read More

UFOs have come to Washington again — this time, in a newly released tranche of more than 150 previously classified documents that cover nearly 80 years of alleged sightings. Available to read today (May 8) on the Department of Defense website , the 162 newly declassified documents, photos, and videos…

TL;DR Google DeepMind’s UK workers voted 98 per cent to unionise after Google signed a classified Pentagon AI deal for “any lawful purpose,” becoming the first frontier AI lab to organise collectively. The union demands include ending military AI use, restoring Google’s scrapped weapons pledge, and creating an independent ethics…

Eight technology companies, including Google, Nvidia and SpaceX, have struck deals with the Pentagon to help the U.S. military gain an edge on the battlefield. “These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision…

The Trump administration’s various projects to reshape the government—even the symbolic ones—are costing U.S. taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. In its latest legislative proposal , the Department of Defense has formally asked Congress to codify its rebrand as the “Department of War,” assuring it that the name change would…

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. In a social media post, the Pentagon said U.S. forces “conducted a right-of-visit maritime interdiction” and boarded the M/T Tifani “without incident.” It’s the latest move in the…

President Donald Trump said Friday that “very interesting documents” related to UFOs will be released by the Department of Defense “very, very soon.” “As you remember, I recently directed the Secretary of War ... to begin releasing government files relating to UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomenon,” Trump said at a…

In Brief Posted: 2:14 PM PDT · April 12, 2026 Image Credits:Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg. …