Pentagon Tested OpenAI Models via Microsoft Despite Military Ban

Defense Department used Azure to access OpenAI tech before policy shift, sources say

@Nonilex #republicans ain’t exactly the party of #fiscalresponsibility now are they? Mostly #Oligarchs with their hands in the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex cookie jar. #Eisenhower warned is about these a-holes.
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian

'The Earthquake Faction' launches by setting ablaze Elbit's Israeli weapons manufacturing centre in the Czech Republic.

Part of the underground group’s communiqué reads:

“On 20th March 2026, the Earthquake Faction struck the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe. In Pardubice, Czech Republic, Elbit Systems’ “Centre of Excellence” was newly built in collaboration with LPP, to service the global expansion of Israel’s biggest weapons producer.

Whilst the development, production and training center was empty, The Earthquake Faction intervened to destroy its equipment and set the factory ablaze. No one was harmed.

The site is used to develop weaponry used by the Zionist entity to massacre people daily in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across West Asia.

The Earthquake Faction is an internationalist underground network that targets key sites critical to the Zionist entity. We aim to destroy all limbs of empire from within, by any means effective.”

The Earthquake Faction’s full communiqué and more videos/images are on their website: https://earthquakefaction.net

The group’s action was also posted on Telegram at t.me/earthquake_faction

Photograph of #Palestine solidarity action from the weekend

#United struggle #CombatWombat https://www.instagram.com/unitedstrugglecombatwombat/?

#WACA (Whistleblowers, Activists & Communities Alliance)
https://www.instagram.com/aka.waca

#antiwar #militaryindustrialcomplex

@simon_brooke You are right that these new military technologies are well-suited to radically distributed production. So long as spidery supply chains function somehow, drones can still be built in quantity.

But I'm not so sure that this is bad news for the USA. The #MilitaryIndustrialComplex loves a #ForeverWar, however much the #MAGA base hates it.

A few decades firing missiles at Iranian mountainsides will be great for business.

@piglet

War Becomes Spectacle in Trump’s Horrific Propaganda Promoting War in Iran

The White House has circulated videos that fuse footage of bombing raids with visuals from video games and action films.

Truthout

Techno-Autocracy

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers
(2025) Trump's Washington Breathes New Life into the Military-Industrial Complex
https://portside.org/2025-08-02/entering-golden-age-war-profiteers

#Capitalism #militaryIndustrialComplex #Oligarchs #Palantir #Plutocrats #Trumpocracy #WarProfiteers

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers

When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the military and a growing cohort of U.S.

Portside