US military aircraft were already airborne this spring when officials discovered the intelligence driving an armed operation against a Chinese ship had been hallucinated by an AI system. The entirely false report was submitted to commanders before the error was caught.
The US Department of Defense has deployed customized versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok through its secure GenAI.mil platform, providing 3 million military and civilian staff access to generative AI tools tailored for warfighter needs and administrative work.
At least three prisoners were killed and 23 injured in separate prison riots across Sri Lanka on Thursday and Friday, prompting authorities to deploy heavily armed troops to multiple facilities. The unrest highlights severe overcrowding in the island nation's prison system, with officials suspecting narcotics dealers and gang rivalries as contributing factors.
