Welcome back to One Thing. I'm David Rind, and a messy fight over AI red lines in the military gets existential.

Are we just saying that you're not allowed to be a company that has political ideas that are different from the people in power?

Stick around.

This is from a video posted to the White House X account the other day.

It's a mix of war footage.

Some of it very real, American missile strikes on Iran, planes taking off, but some of it

is also apparently from the video game Call of Duty.

We're winning this fight.

Not everyone loved this mashup.

Critics said real people are dying in this war.

Multiple U.S. service members have been killed.

This is not a video game. It's no joke.

The outrage didn't seem to bother the White House, though.

Com's director Stephen Chung wrote in streamer slang, W's in the chat, boys. But it's worth asking, if that's

how the administration is selling the war on social media, how seriously are they taking

negotiations with potential defense contractors? So to start, AI companies have been working with the military for several years now.

This is Hadass Gold. She's CNN's AI correspondent.

And I wanted her to catch me up on a major story that's been playing out over the past few weeks.

It involves the Defense Department and some of the biggest AI companies in Silicon Valley.

And it could have major implications for

the future of American war fighting. Because like Hadass said, this AI technology is already

being used by the Pentagon. It reportedly played a role in both the January operation in

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