US wants to flood the Taiwan skies with a robot army
The US army plans to combat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by flooding the narrow Taiwan Strait with swarms of thousands and thousands of autonomous drones.
“I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities so that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything,” US Indo-Pacific Command chief Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo told the Washington Post.
The drones are intended to confuse enemy aircraft, provide targeting for missiles to knock out warships and generally create chaos. The Ukrainians have been pioneering the use of drones in warfare, destroying 26 Russian vessels and forcing the Black Sea Fleet to retreat.
Ironically, most of the parts in Ukraine’s drones are sourced from China, and there are doubts over whether America can produce enough drones to compete.
To that end, the Pentagon has earmarked $1 billion this year for its Replicator initiative to mass-produce the kamikaze drones. Taiwan also plans to procure nearly 1,000 additional AI-enabled drones in the next year, according to the Taipei Times. The future of warfare has arrived.
AI agents crypto payments network
Skyfire has just launched a payments network that enables AI agents to make autonomous transactions. The agents will get a pre-funded crypto account with safeguards to prevent overspending (humans get pinged if spending exceeds preset limits), and it comes as agents are unable to access their own bank accounts.
Co-founder Craig DeWitt told TechCrunch that AI agents have been “glorified search” without the ability to pay for anything. “Either we figure out a way where agents are actually able to do things, or they don’t do anything, and therefore, they’re not agents,” he said.
Denso, a global auto parts manufacturer, is already using Skyfire with its own AI…
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