Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles
As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. Bluesky: @jjvincent Bluesky: James Vincent / @jjvincent : autonomy is a spectrum, not a binary, which makes defining an autonomous killer drone hard, as this report from the Ukraine-Russia war makes clear. but I feel at this point it's also obvious: autonomous killer drones are here and they're not going away — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m...