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Cathedral says its AI agents got into Anthropic systems in under 12 hours

Anthropic confirms the researchers reached sales, HR and IT systems, and says model weights and source code stayed out of reach.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Two Google DeepMind researchers quit over Pentagon AI contracts

Research engineer Sofia Liguori left this week and Andreas Kirsch earlier in October; Google says its public-sector deals go through a set review process.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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DC Circuit upholds Trump blacklist of Anthropic in 2-1 ruling

Appeals court says Pentagon can designate Anthropic a supply chain risk for restricting Claude features, even absent malicious intent.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Appeals court upholds Pentagon's supply chain risk ban on Anthropic

A 2-1 D.C. Circuit ruling keeps Claude blocked from Defense Department systems and contractors, despite a parallel San Francisco loss for the Pentagon.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Pentagon wants $30M to build an AI-powered lie detector called Polygraph+
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Pentagon wants $30M to build an AI-powered lie detector called Polygraph+

The five-year DCSA program pairs machine learning with contactless sensors to vet staff and hunt leakers. Researchers call it 'the worst of both worlds.'

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AI chatbot hallucination nearly triggered US strike on Chinese vessel
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AI chatbot hallucination nearly triggered US strike on Chinese vessel

A Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to synthesize intelligence — the ship's cargo manifest was invented.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Pentagon in talks to lend $5B to AI cloud startup Fluidstack
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Pentagon in talks to lend $5B to AI cloud startup Fluidstack

The proposed loan would mark one of the largest direct federal financings of AI compute infrastructure to date.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil

The Defense Department opens custom OpenAI and xAI models to 3 million personnel, with 1.7 million already onboarded to the portal.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Judge strikes down Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as illegal retaliation

A federal judge vacated the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation, calling the sanctions across nine agencies baseless and unconstitutional.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Foundation, backed by Eric Trump, plans armed humanoid robots
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Foundation, backed by Eric Trump, plans armed humanoid robots

CEO Sankaet Pathak says weapons systems arrive in months, with Phantom MK1 already tested by Ukrainian forces.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic hits near-$1T valuation while warning AI could destroy the world

Founded in 2021 by OpenAI defectors, Anthropic now sells Claude to the Pentagon and argues that dominating AI is the only way to make it safe.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Trump says he viewed Anthropic as a national security threat last week

The president told Axios that relations with the AI lab have since improved, after weeks of export controls and Pentagon supply-chain scrutiny.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Pentagon uses generative AI to draft congressional reports in 5 hours

CTO Emil Michael says GenAI.mil cut a 200-hour reporting task to five, as 1.5 million DoD personnel now use the platform.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI warfare is already here as Anthropic fights Pentagon over autonomous weapons

The DOD has embedded AI in military operations for 70 years; fully autonomous lethal systems remain the final frontier.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Google DeepMind's London staff vote to unionize over Pentagon and Israel AI deals — editorial illustration
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Google DeepMind's London staff vote to unionize over Pentagon and Israel AI deals

98% of CWU members at DeepMind backed the bid; the unions want Google to drop military contracts and reinstate its weapons pledge.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Google DeepMind staff in London vote to unionize over Pentagon and Israel AI deals — editorial illustration
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Google DeepMind staff in London vote to unionize over Pentagon and Israel AI deals

98% of CWU members backed the bid, which could cover 1,000 London staff and force a fight over Google's military contracts.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Pentagon signs Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS to put AI on classified networks

The Defense Department adds four more vendors after the Anthropic dispute, deploying models inside IL6 and IL7 environments.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Pentagon awards classified AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Nvidia — Anthropic shut out

The Defense Department signed seven AI vendors for classified use and labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after a fight over autonomous weapons.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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600 Google Staff Urge Pichai to Drop Pentagon AI Deal Anthropic Walked Away From

More than 600 employees, including senior DeepMind researchers, are pressing Google to refuse a classified Pentagon contract.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google opens its AI to the Pentagon on terms Anthropic refused

Google joins OpenAI and xAI in signing broad DoD access; 950 of its own employees signed an open letter asking it not to.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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