Humanoid Robots Hit Ukraine's Frontlines for First Time
Foundation Labs sent two Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine in February - the first deployment of armed humanoid robots to any active combat zone.
Autonomous weapons
OpenAI's Robotics Chief Quits Over Pentagon Deal
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'
AI Models Go Nuclear in 95% of Simulated War Games - Claude, GPT-5.2, and Gemini All Cross the Threshold
A King's College London study pitted Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other in nuclear crisis simulations. Tactical nuclear weapons were deployed in 20 out of 21 games. No model ever surrendered.
Scout AI's Fury Turns ChatGPT-Style Agents Into Battlefield Weapons
Defense startup Scout AI demonstrated its Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator directing drones and ground vehicles to find and destroy a target using natural language commands and a 100B+ parameter foundation model.
