Tag: pentagon
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Courts Just Told Anthropic: The Pentagon Wins This Round
A federal appeals court just sided with the Pentagon in its fight with Anthropic, and it is a bigger deal than the headline makes it sound. The Department of Defense had labeled Anthropic’s Claude models a supply chain risk, the kind of tag that can quietly shut a company out of government contracts and slow…
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The Pentagon Wants In on the AI Data Center Boom
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon is in talks to lend about five billion dollars to Fluidstack, an AI cloud computing startup. The money would come out of the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital, a unit built to fund the industrial base that keeps America able to build critical hardware. This loan is…
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400 Leaked Pages Show How Close AI Labs Are to the Pentagon
A journalist outlet called The Intercept sued the government to get documents, and after that lawsuit, they got over 400 pages showing exactly how deep OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI are working with the Pentagon. Back in July 2025, all four companies signed contracts worth up to $200 million each. The paperwork lays out what…
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A Judge Just Called the Pentagon’s Anthropic Ban Illegal
A company said no to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon tried to make it disappear. Back in March, the Defense Department ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s products. It went further and told defense contractors not to do business with the company at all, even on work that had nothing to do with…
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A Judge Says the Pentagon’s Case Against Anthropic Got Worse
Back in March, a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and banning federal use of its AI. The government had argued Anthropic was untrustworthy enough to disable its own models mid mission, among other claims, and the judge wasn’t buying it even then. On Thursday, the same judge, Rita…