Contenders include titles on weight-loss drugs, AI weaponry and forecasting

The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.

The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.

Contenders include three former winners and titles on power, innovation and society

On a quiet Maryland farm, a startup displays one possible future of warfare. The Pentagon is racing to determine how autonomous it can become.

A US government agency has withdrawn a bid to improve a military intelligence system that is at the heart of lethal targeting following a protest from Palantir Technologies Inc., according to people f...

A biography of Hannibal Lecter. A meditation on trees. A memoir by a child prodigy violinist. A treatise on the way we poop. These are just a few of the nonfiction books our NPR colleagues are enjoyin...

An intelligence analyst’s missed remarks are among the missteps surfaced in an investigation into a deadly strike against an elementary school in Iran.

An intelligence analyst’s missed remarks are among the missteps surfaced in an investigation into a deadly strike against an elementary school in Iran.

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Maven not only identifies targets—it tells commanders how to attack them, too

Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to pe...

Hundreds of AI researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed onto a letter urging Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to refuse to make the company’s artificial intelligence systems available fo...

A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks.