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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
latform

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