Anthropic says a China-aligned account lacking Arabic skills uses Claude over several days to draft regional-dialect messages recruiting Uyghurs in Syria and translate targets’ replies live, while separate suspected Russian and Yemen-linked users employ automated workflows for phishing and missile-related coding.
Mach Industries raises a $600 million Series C extension after paying $50 million in cash and equity for Exquadrum, outbidding at least eight suitors and expanding into solid rocket motors through its new Mach Energetics unit.
Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts to use its AI for biological-weapons research, while former safety leaders Evan Hubinger and Paul Christiano warn that the industry still lacks an adequate plan to control potentially catastrophic superintelligent systems.
Anthropic says a Yemen-based operation uses Claude Code to build rocket-guidance software and seeks troubleshooting advice after a failed test flight, while Chinese labs including Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Xiaomi allegedly use thousands of fraudulent accounts to distill Claude outputs.
The Pentagon rolls out ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government through its secure GenAI.mil portal, granting 3 million military and civilian personnel access to cutting-edge AI tools, with over 1.7 million users already onboarded — while Anthropic's Claude remains excluded after being flagged as a supply-chain risk by the Trump …
The Department of War deploys Grok for Government on GenAI.mil, giving 1.7 million military users access to classified-level AI tools accredited at Impact Level 5, featuring deep-thinking inference, adaptive reasoning, and customizable workspaces to accelerate mission execution.
A federal judge strikes down the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, ruling it unconstitutional retaliation after the AI company refused to let the Pentagon use its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Anthropic and OpenAI are aggressively pursuing lucrative national security contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, raising urgent alarms from human rights advocates who warn that deploying AI in military and intelligence operations risks civilian harm, erodes accountability for lethal force, and threatens national security without proper safeguards.
Oracle secures a massive 10-year, $7 billion Pentagon contract to supply software to the U.S. military and intelligence community, saving taxpayers $441 million, sending shares up 3% in extended trading despite a brutal 38% year-to-date decline driven by fears that AI could disrupt its traditional software business.
Applied Intuition launches Dana, an agentic AI platform that slashes vehicle development timelines from months to days, enabling engineers to deploy up to ten times daily, with early adopters Isuzu Motors and Komatsu already leveraging the technology across automotive, defense, and heavy equipment industries.