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September 26, 2026

Bloomberg: US 'kill chain' with AI targeting killed 123 children after Pentagon gutted civilian harm review teams

Also: RAF confirms UK jams adversary satellites amid rising space threats‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Saturday 26 September 2026

Transformative AI
Bloomberg: US 'kill chain' with AI targeting killed 123 children after Pentagon gutted civilian harm review teams
A Bloomberg investigation published on 18 September, drawing on more than two dozen current and former US officials, has reconstructed how two Tomahawk missiles came to hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on 28 February, the opening day of the US and Israeli air campaign against Iran.

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