Thursday, October 15, 2026

Peace deal unlikely to stem Iran’s hackers, US officials say

The preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement reached over the weekend likely won’t stop cyber operations launched by Tehran and Iran-aligned hacking groups at American systems, five current and two former U.S. officials told Nextgov/FCW. Most of them were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss forward-looking perspectives of Iranian cyber activity after the agreement.…

ChatGPT to debut on Pentagon’s GenAI.mil in ‘early July’, OpenAI says

OpenAI will bring ChatGPT to GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s generative-AI platform, in "early July," a company official said Tuesday. The AI firm is working with the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Mohammed Husain—the company's strategic delivery lead for cyber—said at the Defense One Tech Summit in Arlington, Virginia. “I think we're going live extremely soon, and excited…

Navy preps science-and-tech strategy built for speed and focus

A new Navy science-and-tech strategy will push technology to the fleet faster and concentrate  limited research funds on problems industry won't solve on its own, the service’s research chief said Tuesday.  The Office of Naval Research strategy, called "Feed S&T at Speed to the Fleet and Force," is in final production, Chief of Naval Research…

NATO has ‘changed a lot’ in four years, transformation leader says

NATO has “really changed a lot in the last three to four years,” since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced the alliance to rethink how it learns, experiments, and operates, a top NATO transformation official said. Now the alliance is moving away from long, platform-centered modernization cycles and toward faster experimentation, interoperability, and “system-of-systems” approaches, said…

Anthropic suspends top AI models after US export-control order

The Trump administration has ordered Anthropic to restrict foreign-national access to two of its most advanced artificial-intelligence models, prompting the company to disable the systems for all customers and escalating a fight over how Washington should control frontier AI tools with powerful cybersecurity capabilities. Anthropic said Friday evening that the U.S. issued an export control…