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Mobilicom launches secure communications for autonomous drone swarmsThe products provide high-throughput links for data-heavy missions and extend Mobilicom’s secured-autonomy portfolio. The launch targets military operations involving multiple drones, robots and personnel.→Cummings demonstrates simultaneous autonomous missions from one fire-control systemThe vehicle-mounted test used two Hellhound S3 systems that executed autonomous missions while sharing a single fire-control system. The company said the systems could be monitored, adjusted or aborted in real time.→U.S. Army expands battlefield AI deployment with StriveworksStriveworks will provide software for deploying, monitoring and re-optimising models as battlefield conditions change. The work supports the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control programme.→Palladyne, Federal and Mossberg develop autonomous counter-drone swarmSwarmShot combines Federal ammunition, a lightweight Mossberg weapon module and Palladyne’s IntelliSwarm autonomy system. The initial design targets reusable air-to-air interceptors that can coordinate as a defensive swarm.→Anthropic reports a frontier cybersecurity model finding 70% of Palo Alto flawsArora said the test was conducted in April and that Mythos 5 was able to probe systems continuously and cheaply. The figure is a vendor executive's account, and the public report does not provide a detailed breakdown of the vulnerabilities or independent validation.→Open Secure AI Alliance moves under Linux Foundation governanceThe Linux Foundation announced that the Open Secure AI Alliance had joined its ecosystem under neutral governance. The alliance plans open tools, shared standards and a findings exchange spanning models, agents, identity, policy, containment and infrastructure.→AV-Comparatives tests endpoint security against AI-assisted attack toolingAV-Comparatives evaluated 14 endpoint-security products against 50 multi-stage attack scenarios, including tooling built with AI-assisted development techniques. Eleven products achieved its highest Certified Leader status under a 92% pass threshold.→CrowdStrike and NVIDIA launch SafeMind cyber-defence modelsCrowdStrike introduced SafeMind, a Falcon-native agentic system with Red Tempest offensive and Blue Solano defensive models built using NVIDIA Nemotron and CrowdStrike telemetry. CrowdStrike reports 29% higher detection, six-times-faster remediation and 99% lower cost against leading frontier and open models, but those figures are company evaluations without disclosed independent validation.→US Army moves Palantir-Anduril TITAN AI targeting system into productionThe US Army moved its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node programme into production through delivery orders worth $127 million to Palantir and $65 million to Anduril for eight systems. TITAN combines space, aerial and terrestrial sensor data into actionable targeting information, while Palantir supplies the software and Anduril handles hardware and shelter integration.→Pentagon puts ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.milThe Pentagon now gives around three million personnel access to ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government through GenAI.mil. The systems are designed for secure defence work, including controlled unclassified information, alongside Gemini.→US defence marketplace makes an AI and API control plane contract-ready540 said its AI and API Control Plane connects enterprise data, applications and models through a governed API layer for defence and civilian agencies. Awardable status means the solution has met the marketplace's competition requirements and can be procured through that channel, although the announcement does not establish universal deployment.→US Air Force selects Crogl for AI-enabled cyber defenceCrogl says it was selected from more than 50 proposals to support the 33rd Cyberspace Operations Squadron and the Department of the Air Force Information Network, which serves more than 700,000 users. The system is intended to correlate evidence across security tools while keeping data within the customer's environment and humans responsible for mission-critical decisions.→Smack raises $61 million to bring domain-specific AI to the tactical edgeSmack Technologies said it raised $61 million in a Series B led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, bringing total capital above $90 million. It said the funding will expand its Omega strategic-planning platform and Alpha tactical platform, including proprietary hardware for deployment in communications- and compute-constrained environments.→Rocket One launches AI swarm-threat emulation for counter-drone testingRocket One said its Swarm Stage AI platform is now available to U.S. military and defence organisations for counter-UAS training, testing and evaluation. The company said the underlying technology has coordinated thousands of synchronised aircraft, but the announcement describes availability and demonstrations rather than an independent assessment of military performance.→AegisAI raises $36 million for AI-driven spear-phishing defenceAegisAI raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49 million. The company says its systems analyse message context and suspicious attachments that conventional rule-based filters may miss.→