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Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, Israeli forces have seized a strategic castle in Lebanon, and an Associated Press investigation looks at a taxpayer-funded treatment center for adoptees in Missouri and finds tales of abuse, neglect and little oversight.

But first, there are two differing AI worlds within the military. The defense secretary is pushing for rapid AI integration and some military leaders are urging caution.

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U.S. Navy Adm. Frank Bradley testifies before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on Capitol Hill in Washington in April. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

As the Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution

The Trump administration is pushing to use artificial intelligence in the U.S. military even as it faces calls for caution from some companies and military leaders. Adm. Frank Bradley of U.S. Special Operations Command emphasized in recent remarks at a conference in Florida that troops “have to be very careful" about use of AI when it comes to deadly strikes. He says he can see a future where AI determines what targets to hit but that humans have to ensure that it would “deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing for rapid AI integration, clashing with Anthropic over safety concerns. Read more.

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A view of Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Sunday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli forces make historic push inside Lebanon and complicate an Iran deal

Israeli forces are making their deepest incursion inside Lebanon since they withdrew from the country over a quarter-century ago, despite a nominal U.S.-brokered ceasefire and the first direct Israel-Lebanon talks in decades. It’s a challenge in the emerging deal to extend the Iran war ceasefire as Tehran wants it to end fighting in Lebanon, too. On Sunday, Israeli forces seized a symbolic fort in southern Lebanon, Beaufort castle, a site that has been a military asset for close to a millennium. Read more.

Inside a taxpayer-funded treatment center for adoptees, tales of abuse, neglect and little oversight

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children. Calo Programs is part of the so-called troubled teen industry that has been quietly institutionalizing adopted children at extraordinarily high rates. How Calo makes money and what happens to kids there offers a window into a larger phenomenon. Some youth treatment centers depend on government funding despite limited oversight. Calo is facing more than a dozen lawsuits and parents describe a chaotic environment that left their children more traumatized than before. Calo denies wrongdoing and says its treatment has helped many children. Read more.