Fox News contributor and Army veteran Brett Velicovich shares insight into the United States' drone capabilities and how it compares to adversaries like Russia and China. The U.S. Marine Corps established an attack drone team earlier this year to respond to the rapid development of armed first-person view (FPV) drone technology and tactics, offering a glimpse into the evolving landscape of modern warfare and how future battles could be fought. The Marine Corps Attack Drone Team (MCADT) will be based at the Weapons Training Battalion, Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. The FPV drones used will offer squad-level lethality at a range of up to 20 kilometers, nearly 12.5 miles, for under 5,000, compared to more expensive weapons systems with less capability, according to a press release from the service. "MCADT is committed to rapidly integrating armed first-person view drones into the FMF [Fleet Marine Force], enhancing small-unit lethality and providing organic capabilities that warfighters currently lack," said Maj. Alejandro Tavizon, the headquarters company commander at Weapons Training Battalion and officer in charge of MCADT.

Users often interact with large language models through black-box inference APIs, both for closed- and open-weight models (e.g., Llama models are popularly accessed via Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Studio). In order to cut costs or add functionality, API providers may quantize, watermark, or finetune the underlying model, changing the output distribution -- often without notifying users. We formalize detecting such distortions as Model Equality Testing, a two-sample testing problem, where the user collects samples from the API and a reference distribution and conducts a statistical test to see if the two distributions are the same. We find that tests based on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy between distributions are powerful for this task: a test built on a simple string kernel achieves a median of 77.4% power against a range of distortions, using an average of just 10 samples per prompt. We then apply this test to commercial inference APIs for four Llama models, finding that 11 out of 31 endpoints serve different distributions than reference weights released by Meta.

The world may end up breaking into tech alliances as a guiding political issue in the years to come, according to a retired American serviceman-turned-novelist as detailed in his new book. "I think for us, particularly with regards to the technology that we're imagining and the incredible power it unleashes, it just becomes obvious that the real source of national power might not be military or even economic, but could quickly become technological power," Elliot Ackerman told Fox News Digital. "Whoever gets there first is going to so stratospherically outpace their rivals that they'll be able to dominate as a nation," he said. Ackerman served in the U.S. Marine Corps for eight years, working as both an infantry and special operations officer with tours in the Middle East and Central Asia. Following the conclusion of his service, he pursued a career as a novelist, drawing on his experience to write acclaimed fiction.

B.T. had proven easy enough to find. When he went dark, Lily figured he was in one of the world's three gambling capitals--Vegas, Monte Carlo, or Macau. It only became a matter of checking with a handful of five-star hotels in each, something Sherman was happy to handle for her. In the days since Castro's death, it was Sherman who'd stoked Lily's concern for B.T. Each morning, Sherman came in parroting another conspiracy theory as to who or what was behind the president's untimely demise. He'd even gone so far as to place a #TRUTHNOTDREAMS sticker adjacent to the US Marine Corps sticker on his wheelchair.

In some ways, it already has - Experts highlight American role in Ukraine's unbelievable AI military development - Baltimore union denies school principal went on'ungrateful Black kids' rant, calls it an AI fraud ROBOT IQ: The rapid development of artificial intelligence has led some to fear dangerous scenarios where the technology is smarter than the humans who created it, but some experts believe AI has already reached that point in certain ways. FORMIDABLE WARRIORS: Ukraine's artificial intelligence (AI) development continues at a frightening pace beyond that of even tech giants in the U.S. and China as the war with Russia lurches toward a third year, but experts highlighted America's critical role in helping that rapid advance. RUSH TO JUDGMENT?: A Baltimore, Maryland school district has launched an investigation after a high school principal was allegedly recorded making racist comments to students and staff. And AI is being blamed. Baltimore County Public Schools said it launched an internal investigation after an audio recording claiming to capture the principal of Pikesville High School making offensive comments circulated online.

The U.S. Marine Corps is testing a new breed of robotic canine that can do much more than fetch and could possibly be headed to the battlefield. The Marines hope that these four-legged robotic dogs will enhance the mobility and safety of their soldiers in the future. CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER The Unitree Go1 robot dog, nicknamed the GOAT (Grounded Open-Air Transport) by the Marines, is a four-legged machine that has a built-in AI system. It can be outfitted to carry an infantry anti-armor rocket launcher on its back. It can also be equipped with a forward-facing GoPro camera, multiple rails for extra cameras, aiming lasers, and other essential gear.

Tom Newhouse, vice president of Convergence Media, discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence on elections after an RNC AI ad garnered attention. A Marine veteran lawmaker says the U.S. should be pushing for a new international agreement to govern the use of artificial intelligence on the battlefield and believes it's a "strategic mistake" the Pentagon hasn't started this important task. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said the U.S. needs to work with other military powers to flesh out rules of the road on how AI can and cannot be deployed by military forces before AI becomes much more advanced. "When we get to the point of having killer robots, it's going to be a real problem for us if we don't have some established international norms for their use," Moulton told Fox News Digital. "Adversaries like China and Russia -- which don't care about collateral damage, they don't care about civilian casualties, they don't care about human rights -- they're going to have an advantage in making their robots more lethal because they'll be less constrained."

"Viewership is absolutely critical to the success of this ecosystem," wrote Tahir "Tashi" Hasandjekic, head of esports at 343 Industries, the subsidiary of Microsoft that developed "Infinite," in a blog post Jan. 2022. At the time, the HCS was riding high on the popularity of its debut tournament, and the competitive scene was a bright spot in an otherwise dimming constellation. Some of the biggest esports teams in the world, like OpTic Gaming and FaZe Clan, had eagerly joined up for "Halo Infinite," signing veteran stars and top emerging talent. At peak vewiership, more than 267,000 Halo fans were tuned into the game's first major tournament concurrently.

Sonny talks about AI in the physical security industry. Sramana Mitra: Let's introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Actuate AI. Sonny Tai: I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Actuate. We are a New York-based AI startup. I was born in Taiwan, but I grew up in South Africa. I'm an immigrant to the United States. The reason why that is relevant is because South Africa has one of the highest rates of gun violence and crime in the world. Unfortunately, while growing up, some of our family and friends were impacted by gun violence including a family friend who was shot in his own home. This is a big reason why I've always had a deep interest in protecting other people and doing something about public safety. I ended up coming to the US when I was was 13 with my mom and my sister. I joined the Marine Corps after I got my green card. I served in the US Marine for 10 years between reserve and active duty. I got out of active duty in 2013. I applied to business school when I was

To better retain talent in its ranks, the Marine Corps is turning to machine learning and artificial intelligence to examine recruiting data and identify key attributes of Marines who will likely stay in uniform. The military writ large has struggled to retain specialized skills, especially tech talent, so the Marine Corps has turned to tech to identify key traits in recruits to inform management choices around retention. The new tech is aimed at enabling a broader transition in Marine Corps to better focus on retention -- rather than just recruitment -- and use analytics to inform decisions aroun Marines upon their entry into service. "The intended outcome is to decrease [Marine Corps Recruit Depot] attrition and increase the success of applicants through at least their first term of enlistment," Maj. Jordan Cochran, a spokesman for the corps' Manpower and Reserve Affairs Department, said in an email.