Small Wars Journal published its September 17, 2026 national security and Korean news roundup, led by a report that AI has transformed the Pentagon's aging networks into a national security risk. The …
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael said the U.S. government should not take equity stakes in technology giants and questioned adding new AI regulations, according to CNBC. Michael's commen…
U.S. Cyber Command confirmed Tuesday that Rear Adm. Ronzelle Green is its new Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, succeeding Brig. Gen. Reid Novotny, who was the command's first CAIO starting last …
Anthropic posted a job listing on September 14, 2026 for a policy design manager on its Safeguards team to define acceptable and harmful uses of its Claude AI model in conventional weapons, two days a…
Former Google DeepMind researcher and "On Avoiding Power-Seeking by Artificial Intelligence" author Nate Soares said he resigned from Google DeepMind at significant financial cost after the company br…
A Pentagon contract document identified as version P00003, released through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, describes OpenAI Mission Models for national-security use cases as having minimal refu…
A Washington Examiner opinion piece argues that the United States is repeating the institutional blind spots of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, this time in its approach to artificial intelligence, drawin…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that "very negative forces" are raising exaggerated concerns about AI that "won't happen," while insisting the United States remain the industry leader over …
The Defense Innovation Unit has issued a solicitation, the Space Threat Intelligence Synthesis Engine, seeking AI software that can fuse live video, satellite imagery, radar, sensor feeds, geospatial …
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team reported that it thwarted multiple attempts over the past year to use its Claude AI for biological weapons research, detailing five case studies on "biological mis…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report, "Detecting and countering misuse of AI," disclosed that a weapons engineering cell in northern Yemen used Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models t…
OpenClaw's agentic AI tools, a $25B+ ARR financial escalation between OpenAI and Anthropic, and a collision between frontier labs, national defense hawks, and Washington energy infrastructure policy w…
The Pentagon is in talks to provide a $5 billion loan to fund AI infrastructure, according to The Wall Street Journal. The reported discussions would mark a direct U.S. Department of Defense role in f…
The Pentagon's forthcoming cyber strategy will prioritize offensive operations aimed at delivering "big outcomes" for the defense secretary and President Donald Trump, Brig. Gen. William Wilburn, depu…
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday that the Pentagon must shift from adding personnel to deplo…
Anthropic's Global Head of Public Sector Teresa Carlson announced at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit that the company's Fable 5.1 model is now available on its Claude for Government platform, with…
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI each signed Pentagon contracts with ceilings of up to $200 million in July 2025 to help shape military AI strategy, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. …
Anthropic has cut ties with the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a major tech advocacy group, amid its legal battle with the Pentagon over military AI use. The split follows ITI's vocal …
The Transportation Security Administration and airport security procedures in the U.S. were built layer by layer after attacks such as the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Fli…
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model to date and the first designated at its 'Critical' cybersecurity capability threshold, while Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 wit…