US intelligence community

Classified budget estimates indicate the National Security Agency is spending billions of dollars to test artificial intelligence models. The report suggests the US intelligence community is investing heavily in evaluating commercial and in-house AI systems, likely for intelligence analysis and security purposes. The scale of the spending is drawing attention to how aggressively US spy agencies are moving into AI.

President Donald Trump has publicly contradicted US intelligence assessments on Iran and, unlike on previous occasions, did not raise the prospect of regime change in Tehran. The remarks mark a shift in his rhetoric toward Iran and put him at odds with the intelligence community's read on the situation.