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The Artificial Intelligence Software Managing the U.S. War on IranTo strike approximately 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of an attack on Iran, the U.S. military relied on the most advanced artificial intelligence ever deployed on th...
By Paul Scharre
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Iranian School Was on U.S. Target List, May Have Been Mistaken as Military SiteThe Iranian elementary school building where scores of children were killed as the U.S. and Israel began their massive aerial campaign was on a U.S. target list and may have b...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The New Era of Drone Warfare Is Creating a New Level of Risk for Civilians, Even When They’re Not the TargetWith wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine, a new era of drone warfare has arrived that's harming more civilians....
By Molly Campbell
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Technology & National Security
Anthropic CEO Says Pentagon Ban Less Harsh than Hegseth Had ThreatenedThe official designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” delivered to the company Wednesday, imposed much milder penalties on the AI giant than Defense Secretary Pete H...
By Paul Scharre & Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Anthropic’s AI Tool Claude Central to U.S. Campaign in Iran, amid a Bitter FeudIn order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it’s ever used...
By Paul Scharre
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AI’s Mass Surveillance ProblemThe Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic highlights a mass surveillance reality: There are few laws limiting what the government can do with artificial intelligence....
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing FounderWithin minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December, Palmer Luckey was stopped by a military officer who wanted to tal...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The U.S. Launches a Peace Corps for AI to Compete with ChinaWhile speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi last month, White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios announced the launch of Tech Corps. Posi...
By Ruby Scanlon
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Pentagon Assault on Anthropic Sends Shock Waves Across Silicon ValleyThe Trump administration’s declaration that AI company Anthropic would be cut off from all government contracts shook the tech industry late Friday, hardening political and cu...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
Here’s What Smart People Are Saying About Anthropic’s Public Spat with the PentagonAnthropic has drawn a hard line with the Pentagon. CEO Dario Amodei said on Thursday that the company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Defense Department's request th...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
Anthropic Sees Support from Other Tech Workers in Feud with PentagonAnthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon over how the military can use artifi...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic tech over AI safety disputeThe Trump administration on Friday ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology and imposed other major penalties, culminating an unu...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
The High-Stakes Fight Between Hegseth and AnthropicHumanity’s real problem, the great biologist Edward O. Wilson once remarked, is that “we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” There is no...
By Daniel Remler
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Technology & National Security
The One Man Stopping Trump from Building Killer AIIn a sprawling 20,000-word essay published last month, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, warned that advances in artificial intelligence could pave the way for a...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Technology & National Security
Anthropic’s Pentagon Showdown Is About More than AI GuardrailsAs the Pentagon was pressing Anthropic PBC to drop the guardrails on its powerful artificial intelligence tools, a senior US defense official posed a hypothetical scenario to ...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Pentagon pressures Anthropic on AI accessUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's threat to cut AI group Anthropic from government supply chains, or possibly compel it to prioritize government orders, raises several serio...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Technology & National Security
Trump Attempts a Tightrope Walk on Selling AI Chips to China Without Boosting Its MilitaryCNAS research associate James Sanders told The Dispatch he believes that selling this number of chips would pose a substantial threat to national security, outweighing any eco...
By James Sanders
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Brings ChatGPT Into Its Official AI Tool SetThe Pentagon’s adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools—including the recent addition of the world’s most popular model, ChatGPT—holds promise for more efficient w...
By Caleb Withers
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The Fight over China Splitting Big TechAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei has emerged as a prominent and vociferous critic of the Trump administration’s chip export policies....
By Janet Egan
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How Long Can Taiwan Ride the AI Wave?Taiwan’s exports hit an all-time high of US$640 billion in 2025, driven by insatiable global demand for its advanced semiconductors, servers, and other data center hardware us...
By J Travis Mosier
