PVPranshu Verma

1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Pranshu Verma

   How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI (opens the original)

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   UNITED NATIONS — Early this month, hundreds of diplomats huddled in a cavernous U.N. conference room in Switzerland, working toward a muscular treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons — the first agreement governing the use of killer artificial intelligence arms. On the last day of negotiations, the talks turned aggressive. Over the next roughly 15 hours, U.S. and Russian diplomats hammered away at the document, removing a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of a

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2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Pranshu Verma, The Washington Post

   AI has transformed the Pentagon’s aging networks into a national security risk (opens the original)

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   For nearly three decades, the Pentagon has put off upgrading its antiquated computer networks, instead focusing its funds on cutting-edge weapons systems. But as artificial intelligence grows in power, it has become increasingly capable of finding low-level weaknesses in the agency’s digital systems and morphing them into debilitating intrusions that could significantly compromise national security. The Pentagon’s leading cyber defense officer said the agency has seen a “tenfold” increas

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3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Pranshu Verma, The Washington Post

   A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy (opens the original)

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   In a late-June meeting with more than a dozen of the nation’s top defense technology firms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an urgent message: The Pentagon needed their help to rapidly replenish America’s weapons arsenal. Outside the room, the United States was mired in a conflict with Iran that was rapidly depleting U.S. stocks of missiles and interceptors. According to three people familiar with the meeting, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive informati

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