Military & National Security

A story from last week that D.A.D. missed: President Trump named Jay Clayton, the Director of National Intelligence and a former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as his AI czar. Clayton will lead a new White House task…

Regulation & Policy

President Trump had Dario Amodei to the White House for a private dinner on Sunday evening — their first one-on-one meeting, scooped by Maria Curi and Marc Caputo of Axios. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews hours earlier, Trump…

Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, backing one of two Defense Department decisions that blocked Claude from military use. The court sided 2-1 with DOD reasoning that included…

Courts & Lawsuits · Anthropic

OpenAI will give Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation access to Daybreak, its AI toolset for finding and patching software vulnerabilities, to help defend hospitals, energy grids and telecom networks from cyberattacks. Ukraine's…

Cybersecurity · OpenAI

On February 28, the opening day of the Iran war, two Tomahawk missiles struck the Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern town of Minab, killing more than 150 people, at least 123 of them children. Measured in child casualties…

The United States and China discussed creating a notification system that would let each country alert the other to national security problems involving artificial intelligence, The New York Times reported, during a day of economic talks…

China & Geopolitics

A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted illegally when it blacklisted Anthropic, the maker of Claude, from U.S. government work—finding the move was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the administration's AI…

Courts & Lawsuits · Anthropic

OpenAI is launching a program to help government watchdog bodies—inspectors general, oversight committees and similar institutions—keep tabs on how agencies use AI in national security work. The company says it will provide $5 million in…

Regulation & Policy · OpenAI

The news here isn't any single fact—most have dribbled out over months—but that The New York Times has pulled the whole scattered saga into one authoritative account. Four of the paper's national-security reporters—David Sanger, Dustin…

Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

Y Combinator—the accelerator behind Airbnb, Stripe, and Coinbase—has published its Fall 2026 Request for Startups, the public list of companies its partners most want founders to build. It's a leading indicator of where Silicon Valley's…

AI Business & Money · Robots & Self-Driving

A new academic paper argues that the risks of opaque AI systems—the 'black box' problem—may be manageable not through technical transparency but through human judgment. The authors contend that practical wisdom, virtue, and intuition can…

AI Safety & Risk

A new Cambridge study—billed as the first on-the-ground evidence of frontier-AI use by an active terrorist group—moves a fear that has mostly lived in benchmark tests and Senate hearings onto the battlefield, and its most alarming finding…

AI Safety & Risk

OpenAI published its National Security Principles, formalizing its approach to government partnerships as it expands work with the U.S. and allied nations. The company announced Daybreak, a cyber defense program with Australia, Canada…

Cybersecurity · OpenAI

In an extended interview for Bloomberg Originals' The Circuit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed that very standoff — and the company's other flashpoints. The standout exchanges: - The fight with Washington. Amodei rejected the idea of…

AI & Jobs · Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

OpenAI launched Rosalind Biodefense, an initiative giving select U.S. government agencies and allied partners access to GPT-Rosalind, the company's specialized reasoning model for life sciences. The program aims to help trusted developers…

Science & Discovery · Health & Medicine · OpenAI

The White House is developing guidance that could allow federal agencies to bypass the Pentagon's "supply-chain risk" designation on Anthropic and onboard new Anthropic AI models — including the company's most advanced system, "Mythos" …

Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

A California federal judge temporarily blocked the DOW from labeling Anthropic a national security supply chain risk—a designation never before applied to a U.S. company—but tech lawyers and lobbyists told Politico the victory may be…

Courts & Lawsuits · Anthropic

Federal agencies including the FBI, Department of Defense, and ICE are purchasing bulk commercial data about Americans—including cell phone location data—from data brokers without warrants, according to civil rights advocates urging…

Privacy & Surveillance · Regulation & Policy

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and cutting government ties with the company. The ruling found the Defense Department violated Anthropic's First Amendment and due process…

Courts & Lawsuits · Anthropic

Le Monde journalists pinpointed the exact real-time location of France's only aircraft carrier by checking a naval officer's public Strava profile. The sailor's morning run—seven kilometers around the deck—revealed the Charles de Gaulle…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK

Airbus is retrofitting two American-made Kratos Valkyrie drone aircraft with a European AI mission system called MARS at its Munich facility, with test flights planned for late 2026. The company aims to deliver an operational autonomous…

Robots & Self-Driving · Europe & UK

Researchers released OSS-CRS, a framework that makes DARPA's competition-winning AI cybersecurity tools usable outside their original cloud environment. The original systems from the AIxCC competition—where AI autonomously found and fixed…

Cybersecurity

An OpenAI robotics employee announced their resignation on social media, claiming concerns about surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization allegedly not receiving adequate…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI & Jobs · OpenAI

Anthropic says it has received a letter from the Department of War designating the company as a supply chain risk to U.S. national security. CEO Dario Amodei announced the company will challenge the designation in court while offering to…

Courts & Lawsuits · Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei accused OpenAI of telling 'straight up lies' about its Department of Defense deal, according to an internal memo. Amodei claims Anthropic walked away from a DoD agreement after failing to secure restrictions on…

Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · Anthropic · OpenAI

A boycott movement is gaining traction on social media, with users canceling ChatGPT Plus subscriptions following OpenAI's Pentagon contract and what participants describe as concerns about Sam Altman's leadership. Community discussion…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

As users protest the Anthropic blacklist by deleting their ChatGPT accounts—pushing Claude to the top of the Apple App Store for the first time—OpenAI is releasing what it calls adjusted language in its deal with the Department of War. Sam…

Privacy & Surveillance · OpenAI · Anthropic

Researchers have released CrimeNER, a dataset of over 1,500 annotated documents drawn from terrorist attack reports and DOJ press releases, designed to train AI systems to extract crime-related information. The dataset defines 22 entity…

Law & Legal Work

Claude surged to the No. 1 spot on the Apple App Store, riding a wave of user support after the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic from all federal work. Responding to the demand, Anthropic released copy-paste instructions to help…

AI Business & Money · Anthropic · OpenAI

OpenAI published its agreement with the Department of War, which permits military use of its AI systems for "all lawful purposes" under existing surveillance and weapons laws. The contract references compliance with the Fourth Amendment…

Privacy & Surveillance · Regulation & Policy · OpenAI

In a historic move, President Trump directed every federal agency to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology," calling the company "radical left" and "woke" in a Truth Social post Friday evening. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth…

Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · Anthropic

Hours after the Anthropic blacklist, OpenAI announced an agreement with the Department of War to deploy its models on classified military networks—replacing Anthropic, which was the first lab to operate in that space. Sam Altman said the…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic · Nvidia

The Hacker News response has been overwhelming and largely sympathetic to Anthropic—but with sharp divisions beneath the surface. The dominant camp views this as a defining moment for the tech industry, with multiple commenters comparing…

Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

An open letter circulating at Google and OpenAI is urging employees not to help their companies fill the void left by Anthropic's expulsion from federal work. The letter, organized through notdivided.org, frames the Department of War's…

AI & Jobs · Google · OpenAI · Anthropic

Dean W. Ball, who left the White House just weeks ago after helping craft the administration's AI policies, called the Anthropic blacklist "a psychotic power-grab," "almost certainly illegal," "a dark day in U.S. history," and "attempted…

Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · Anthropic

We now await the Pentagon's response. It has threatened to cut Anthropic out of supply chains or take control of certain operations through the Defense Production Act. The ball is now in its court after a spectacular statement Thursday…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

More than 175 Google employees and nearly 50 at OpenAI have signed letters demanding their companies draw the same red lines on military AI that Anthropic is defending. At Google—which employs roughly 190,000 people—the letter was…

AI & Jobs · Google · OpenAI · Anthropic

Palantir Technologies has a permanent desk at the U.S.-led Civil Military Coordination Center in southern Israel and is providing technological architecture for tracking aid delivery to Gaza, according to three diplomatic sources who spoke…

Privacy & Surveillance

An intriguing twist into the most consequential AI-related battle in Washington. An unverified blog post claims the Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to renegotiate a contract signed last summer, allegedly demanding the AI company drop its…

Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

Lost in the attention generated by the Pentagon pressure: Anthropic appears to have relaxed a different type of safety precaution. The company has dropped the central commitment from its Responsible Scaling Policy—a 2023 pledge to never…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to relax its AI guardrails against autonomous weapons targeting and mass domestic surveillance—or face contract termination, designation as a "supply chain risk" to the…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

OpenAI announced it has deployed a custom version of ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, a U.S. Department of Defense platform. The company says the deployment brings "secure, safety-forward AI capabilities" to defense teams, though no details were…

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