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   Pentagon launches new Gemini based AI platform   
      
   Date:   
   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Both military and civilian personnel are getting access to GenAI.mil.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   The US military is getting Googles Gemini. Earlier this week, US Secretary of   
   Defense, Pete Hesgeth, published a new video on X, announcing GenAI.mil, a   
   platform that puts the worlds most powerful frontier AI models directly into   
   the hands of every American warrior.    
      
   The platform will be available to roughly three million employees of the US   
   Department of Defense (or, as the current administration refers to it, the   
   Department of War), which includes both military and civilian personnel, all   
   of whom will receive free training on how to use the tool.    
      
   The platform runs on Googles Gemini for Government, a specialized enterprise   
   AI platform and service designed specifically for US federal government   
   agencies.    
      
   Google employees against warfare   
      
   In theory, that means that the models are more secure, compliant, and   
   government-ready, compared to the commercial, free-to-use alternatives.   
   However, if that really is the case - remains to be seen.    
      
   In its writeup, Cybernews argues that a lot could go wrong here. Despite   
   everyones best efforts, todays AI models are still susceptible to prompt   
   injection attacks, which means that the countrys adversaries, such as Russia,   
   China, North Korea, or Iran, could get another avenue for data theft and   
   cyber-espionage.    
      
   Any compromised user workstation or common access card account now comes with   
   a powerful AI console that might have access to internal context via   
   integrations or provide a convenient way to summarize or transform stolen   
   data, Joshua Copeland, a cybersecurity expert at Tulane University, told the   
   publication.    
      
   At the same time, the silence of Googles employees is telling. Over the    
   years, the employees protested multiple times over the companys involvement    
   in military, or defense purposes.    
      
   In 2018, they protested Project Maven, an AI project to analyze drone    
   footage. Thousands of employees signed a letter objecting to Googles tech   
   being used for warfare, while several employees resigned. Google eventually   
   decided not to renew the contract.    
      
   Between 2021 and 2023, there was a $1.2 billion cloud and AI contract with    
   the Israeli government and military, Project Nimbus. Google employees   
   protested internally and publicly, arguing that the technology could be used   
   for surveillance, military operations, or human-rights abuses. Some were   
   disciplined or fired after activism escalated.    
      
    Via Cybernews    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/pentagon-launches-new-gemini-based-ai-p   
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