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Book reviews: ‘The Rolling Stones: The Biography’ and ‘Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare’ Project Maven

Book reviews: ‘The Rolling Stones: The Biography’ and ‘Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare’

‘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,…
bubmag
May 13, 2026
US government declassifies nearly 200 UAP files, including strange sightings from Apollo astronauts Project Maven

US government declassifies nearly 200 UAP files, including strange sightings from Apollo astronauts

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…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising Project Maven

In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

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…
bubmag
May 5, 2026
Google, Nvidia and other tech titans sign AI deal with the Pentagon Project Maven

Google, Nvidia and other tech titans sign AI deal with the Pentagon

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…
bubmag
May 2, 2026
Pentagon Demands Congress Burn Millions to Make Name Change Official Project Maven

Pentagon Demands Congress Burn Millions to Make Name Change Official

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…
bubmag
April 28, 2026
U.S. forces board a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, the Pentagon says Project Maven

U.S. forces board a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, the Pentagon says

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…
bubmag
April 21, 2026
Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model Project Maven

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

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. …
bubmag
April 12, 2026