Defense stocks surged to record highs as governments increase military spending on weapons and AI battlefield technology, driven by geopolitical tensions and the need to replace depleted stockpiles. T…
The US, China, and Russia are collectively investing over $2 trillion in AI, drones, hypersonic weapons, and satellite systems, reshaping the global arms race. The Pentagon's fiscal 2026 budget includ…
Court documents reveal tense email exchanges between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon official Emil Michael, leading to the AI lab's split with the Department of Defense over concerns about usi…
The Department of Defense's GenAI.mil platform has reached nearly 1.7 million users and over 100,000 custom agents, with plans to add new models and deploy at higher classification levels. Pentagon ch…
The United States is spending more on artificial intelligence than any other government, with federal AI contracts rising from 472 in 2022 to over 1,700 in 2026, including $90 billion from the Departm…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a workbench for scientific research, at its AI for Science event on Tuesday. The offering aims to expand revenue streams ahead of the company's planned IPO later thi…
Rep. James Walkinshaw warned against fetishizing Silicon Valley startups and outlined plans to rebuild federal government capacity, citing workforce reductions and damage from the Department of Govern…
California signed a first-of-its-kind centralized contract with Anthropic on June 29, 2026, to deploy Claude AI across state and local agencies, following Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order N-5-2…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed executive orders in March and May 2026 to expand AI use in state government, including stricter vendor safeguards and labor market studies, while creating a reg…
The AI 2027 Tracker, a project tracking predictions from the AI 2027 scenario, reports that several key milestones have been confirmed or are emerging, including the completion of a frontier model tra…
The Pentagon issued a new AI Acceleration Strategy on January 9, 2026, mandating an AI-first warfighting force and requiring frontier models to be battlefield-ready within 30 days of public release. T…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna denied using AI to draft a defense funding amendment after a screenshot showed an AI-generated summary of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act. Luna initially said AI c…
The Trump administration's chief digital and artificial intelligence officer argued that shutting down xAI's Colossus 2 data center in Memphis would threaten national security, as the facility powers …
President Donald Trump said negotiations with AI company Anthropic are progressing well, speaking at the G7 summit on June 17, 2026, amid a months-long standoff involving federal bans and export contr…
President Trump signed an executive order on June 2 establishing a voluntary pre-release review framework for frontier AI models, asking developers to give the government access up to 30 days before p…
Anthropic updated Claude Design to integrate design and coding, allowing users to sync brand assets with Claude Code via a new "/design" command. The company also pulled its Fable 5 AI model after a U…
OpenAI's ChatGPT will be deployed on the Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform in early July, providing a custom, government-approved version to over 3 million defense personnel. The instance is certified for…
The Senate's FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act includes bipartisan amendments banning AI from autonomously launching nuclear weapons or using lethal force without human authorization. The prov…
OpenAI will debut ChatGPT on the Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform in early July, making the chatbot available to over 3 million defense personnel. The company is working with the DoD's Chief Digital Arti…
The Department of Defense has deployed generative AI through its GenAI.mil platform to draft congressional reports, reducing staff time from 200 hours to five hours per report. Pentagon CTO Emil Micha…