Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils six Pentagon initiatives, including an Autonomous Warfare Command slated to become a four-star combatant command by Oct. 1, 2027, and Project Meridian, which gives Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich 120 days to review next-generation military technology.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel upholds the Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic, keeping Claude barred from military and defense-contractor use after talks collapsed over safeguards against autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.
Anthropic says an unidentified northern Yemen cell is using Claude to aid guided-rocket and ballistic-missile development, including the R2000 missile family and a system it claims can travel more than 2,000 kilometers.
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.