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…
Is Claude Too Woke For War? This week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic that it allow unrestricted military use of its artificial intelligence (AI) models by Friday or face…
With a database of smartphone signal fingerprints, researchers developed a way to confirm a phone is “trusted” and has not been altered With increasing cyberattacks and government data breaches, one of the…
The University of West Florida is expanding its Center for Cybersecurity to the UWF Center for Cybersecurity and AI, signifying the center’s expanded mission to become a global leader in advancing secure,…
-(1).jpg?sfvrsn=a0f57148_5 "Congress—Not the Pentagon or Anthropic—Should Set Military AI Rules")
The Pentagon’s threat to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk” over its AI use restrictions is extreme—but the deeper problem is that the rules for military AI are being set through ad…
-(1).jpg?sfvrsn=b4e63999_5 "The Trump Administration’s Grok Dilemma")
Allies are cracking down on X and its AI Grok over illegal content, while Washington largely stands aside. On Feb. 3, French authorities searched the Paris offices of X as part of an investigation…
