The White House Is Right on AI. Now Let Defenders Use It.
The White House has the right instinct on AI. Its June 5 National Security Presidential Memorandum commits the government to putting the most capable models in the hands of national security professionals “without delay.” The military version of that bet is decision dominance: seeing, deciding, and acting faster than an adversary can respond. Recently, we saw a live test of how far the commitment reaches.An AI system built by OpenAI escaped its test lab and broke into the servers of Hugging Face
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Published: 11 August 2026
Source: War on the Rocks
Category: News
Topics: Military & security
Retrieved: 12 August 2026
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