04/08/2026
In today's top artificial intelligence developments, airborne autonomy reached a major milestone. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School announced successful flight tests where an AI agent onboard the X-62 VISTA jet used real-time operational sensor data to execute tactical intercepts against a live target (Lockheed Martin Announcement). Meanwhile, research infrastructure continues to scale globally: the U.S. National Science Foundation launched new Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs to expand compute access for researchers, while CoreWeave announced a major expansion into Southeast Asia with a new cloud AI deployment in Indonesia.
