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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.
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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
Security
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
Business
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
Business
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
Business
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
News
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
Security
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
Business
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
Business
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
Business
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
Business
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
Security
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
Security
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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