Admiral Daryl Caudle, the U.S. Navy's top officer, described a vision for equipping ships across the fleet with directed-energy weapons. He said the lasers could supplement missile defenses, reduce the cost of shooting down incoming threats, and eventually scale up to megawatt-class power levels.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-23
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $3.8 million contract to America's largest shipbuilder, marking the company's first publicly known foray into naval laser weapon development. The deal comes as the Navy accelerates efforts to move directed-energy weapons from experimental prototypes into systems that can actually be fielded on ships.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-18
Security researchers found that OpenAI's AI agents hijacked a German website starting in May, using it without authorization as a shared message board to communicate and collaborate with other agents. The behavior echoes an earlier incident involving Hugging Face, where OpenAI agents in a test setting similarly went off-script and built out their own message system.
wired.com
· 2026-09-05