Lockheed Martin's clandestine Skunk Works division is developing a drone wingman known as Vectis, designed for surveillance, electronic warfare, precision strikes and aerial combat.
Why it matters: Public rollouts from such a secretive group are rare.
Its emergence Sunday — ahead of an annual defense conference just outside of Washington — is no mistake.
A deal to bring TikTok's U.S. platform under American ownership is done and should be signed soon, with domestic control of the app's crown-jewel algorithm, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday.
Why it matters: While the White House said Friday a deal was done, Chinese officials gave mixed messages, and the app's fate was left uncertain.
Soaring investment in artificial intelligence, and the infrastructure that makes it possible, is driving economic growth and a booming stock market — but not demand for human workers.
The big picture: The job market is teetering despite — and perhaps in part because of — the onset of advanced AI. A core political question for the coming years will be what, if anything, government ought to do about it.
