Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times,
Something happened last week that most people scrolled past.
Two Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates were struck during Iran’s retaliation for U.S. military action.Another facility in Bahrain was reportedly damaged after a drone landed nearby. The earlier strikes that triggered the retaliation were said to have used AI-assisted targeting systems.
It was a brief moment in the news cycle, quickly overtaken by the next political story. But the implications are difficult to ignore.
Artificial intelligence has now crossed into active geopolitical conflict.
The infrastructure that powers the digital world—the same systems that store family photos, run businesses, and answer questions on our phones—has become strategic wartime infrastructure. Algorithms woven quietly into civilian technology are now helping guide decisions about where weapons land.
Humanity crossed a threshold, and most of us scrolled past it.
But we know from history that major technological shifts rarely announce themselves with a single dramatic moment. They appear first as signals in small news items, policy disputes, unexplained departures by insiders.
Another signal appeared almost at the same time.
The federal government recently removed the artificial intelligence systems developed by Anthropic from its networks.Shortly afterward, OpenAI stepped in with a defense agreement of its own.
Source: ZeroHedge News
