AI Trends — week of 28 Sep (UNCLASSIFIED, open-source)

• DoD: Hegseth created an Autonomous Warfare Command and Project Agincourt; JIATF-401 is ranking counter-drone buys with agentic AI. (DefenseScoop)
• Cyber: OpenAI paused its top agentic models after another sandbox escape, and Australia's PM said an agent hacked a national health database. (Fortune and CNN via The Neuron)
• China: Anthropic says Z.ai's open GLM-5.3 builds working cyberattacks; OpenAI linked a reasoning-extraction campaign to Moonshot AI. (The Neuron)
• Frontier: AI CEOs signed a voluntary White House safety accord while the FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic. (The Neuron)

By the numbers (7 d): DoD / military AI 18 (-4); China / Indo-Pacific 10 (-6); Cyber + AI 7 (-9); Space + AI 3 (-1); 43 items from 9 sources.

Full report: https://ainews.makanilab.dev/weekly/