A proposal to authorize the private sector’s use of offensive cyber operations raises old questions without offering many new answers. On March 6, the Trump administration released its new National Cybersecurity Strategy. One…
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AI is already amplifying the destabilization of financial markets. Increasing acceptance of and guessing about what might happen when the artificial intelligence (AI) bubble pops has become a popular parlor game. But what remains…
Over the past year, the United States has moved toward an AI governance model that is flexible yet profoundly inadequate: regulation by contract. On Feb. 27, the Pentagon designated Anthropic, the first frontier artificial…
AI agents have sparked an urgent debate in China about data privacy and security that holds huge lessons for the U.S. and the future of AI everywhere. A powerful new artificial intelligence…
The bipartisan AI OVERWATCH Act seeks oversight of advanced AI chips amid national security concerns. Few corners of American artificial intelligence (AI) policy have grown stranger over the past year than exports…
This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick. On Feb. 27, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic—the maker of the AI model Claude—a supply chain risk to…
The very public feud between the US Department of Defense (also known these days as the Department of War) and its AI technology supplier Anthropic is unusual for pitting state might against…
The Pentagon has given leading AI company Anthropic until Feb. 27 to abandon its AI safety limits or face extraordinary punitive measures. If Anthropic refuses—as it has signaled it will—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to invoke the…
The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demanding—and the statute’s ambiguities cut both ways. On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and threatened…
As AI accelerates cyber operations, the United States must build new mechanisms to detect, investigate, and learn from attacks driven by emerging capabilities. Anthropic reported in November 2025 that Chinese threat actors used…
