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Maven's AI agents: who is accountable when they fail?Part 3 of 3

Anthropic told courts it cannot alter Claude once it is inside a classified Pentagon system, and an appeals court has now ruled that how a laboratory trains its models can itself be a supply chain risk. Military AI splits responsibility between the laboratory that trains the model, the platform that gives it tools and the commander who acts, and no single party holds the whole of it.

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Human control of military AI: safeguard or weak point?Part 2 of 3

Human judgment is the main safeguard in US military AI, and the thing a fast, jammed battlefield wears away. Pentagon policy requires only appropriate human judgment, while Palantir says Maven cuts two weeks of staff planning to one person and four hours.

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Russia decides sovereignty means building its own AI

Putin has ordered a national task force, since formalised by decree into a presidential commission, to coordinate Russia's generative AI push, framing reliance on foreign models as a security risk.

The models that hacked their way out of the test

OpenAI says two of its models, tested with their cyber safeguards switched off, found a way out of an isolated lab and broke into Hugging Face to steal the answers to a benchmark. It may be the first publicly documented breach carried out from start to finish by an autonomous AI agent — and the way it was caught is as instructive as the break-in.

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