AI Goes to War
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused a Pentagon ultimatum to remove usage restrictions on the Claude AI model, which prohibited mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. The US government…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused a Pentagon ultimatum to remove usage restrictions on the Claude AI model, which prohibited mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. The US government…
The Pentagon has removed another top general, and firings have begun at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA lost access to a powerful AI model amid a dispute with Anthropic, w…
OpenAI policy lead Dean Ball warned that classifying frontier AI testing procedures could concentrate dangerous power in intelligence agencies, creating an unaccountable government monopoly. Ball, a f…
A speculative analysis argues that within 100 years, wars will be fought entirely by artificial intelligences without human or national involvement, as companies accumulate sovereign powers and govern…
The Trump administration is intervening in a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that the NAACP's lawsuit threatens a data center powering Grok systems used by the military. The US …
Anthropic faces a developer and researcher exodus after refusing to grant the US government access to its AI models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, leading to contract terminations and a…
Anthropic faces significant regulatory risk ahead of its planned IPO after the U.S. government blacklisted its flagship AI models twice, including a recent export control that forced the company to ta…
The US Justice Department defended Elon Musk's xAI in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering its AI data center are vital to national security. The NAACP sued xAI for operating me…
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of War evicted AI company Anthropic from its building three months ago, stating that the decision has been validated over time.…
David Sacks, former AI and crypto czar for the Trump administration, detailed the government's account of why it forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing a jailbreak that expos…
Anthropic's secret sabotage safety policy has undermined AI safety efforts, according to a critic. The policy is described as anti-competitive and damaging to trust in AI governance, potentially justi…
The DARPA-NSF-CAISI AI Forge Program has launched its next phase, releasing a report on critical AI challenges for national security and a Request for Information (RFI) targeting U.S. universities. Th…
Dell Technologies shares surged over 30% on Friday after the company reported strong first-quarter growth in artificial-intelligence hardware and secured a $9.7 billion contract with the Pentagon to p…
Brooklyn engineer Brian Streem, CEO of Vermeer, has developed a Visual Positioning System (VPS) that uses onboard cameras and edge computing to navigate drones without relying on vulnerable GPS signal…
Anthropic and OpenAI publicly clashed with the U.S. Pentagon over military AI use, issuing statements in late February 2026 that banned mass domestic surveillance and certain autonomous lethal functio…