Anthropic is being phased out of Pentagon systems after a dispute over safeguards tied to domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using the company’s AI, while OpenAI announced a new agreement to deploy its models in classified networks.
Anthropic has refused Pentagon demands that it remove safety safeguards from its Claude AI model, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. CEO Dario Amodei said the company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the request, even as the Pentagon threatens contract removal and designation as a supply chain risk under the Defense Production Act.
The U.S. Department of War and Lockheed Martin have signed a seven-year framework agreement to raise annual production of PAC-3 MSE interceptors from about 600 to roughly 2,000. The plan depends on Congressional approval and aims to expand industrial capacity.
The U.S. War Department has rolled out GenAI.mil, a new generative AI platform featuring Google’s Gemini for Government, making advanced AI tools available to all military and civilian personnel, marking a major move towards an AI-enabled workforce.
India and the United States have signed a new ten-year framework to guide their major defence partnership, covering cooperation in technology, industry and military coordination, during a meeting at the ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh saying the framework “will provide policy direction to the entire spectrum of the India-U.S. defence relationship.”
The nomination of a television program co-host with credentials lighter than a feather, for the senior cabinet position of Secretary of Defense, will make it easier to side-line or remove senior military officers whom Trump has said he would fire for being ‘woke.’
