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The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the Pentagon's exclusion of Claude AI from the military supply chain, citing supply chain risks due to Anthropic's restrictions on using the model for lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
A U.S. appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, preventing the military from using their AI models due to national security concerns.
The Pentagon is requesting $30 million to develop an AI-powered lie detector called Polygraph+ to improve accuracy and reliability, amid internal tensions and previous failed attempts.
The Pentagon has stated that an overreliance on artificial intelligence contributed to a missile strike on a school in Iran, highlighting concerns about AI in military operations.
A correction clarifies that a strike hit an elementary school, not a military base, and the Pentagon blames flawed intelligence and AI for a strike that killed Iranian children.
Pentagon investigators found that overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System AI contributed to a U.S. strike that killed 123 Iranian children, citing failures in intelligence data and targeting processes.
The Pentagon is reportedly discussing a $5 billion loan to Fluidstack to support the AI infrastructure supply chain, with concerns about ensuring public benefits from the taxpayer-funded investment.
The Pentagon affirmed that its ban on Anthropic remains in effect, pushing back against recent remarks by Howard Lutnick that suggested otherwise.
Anthropic won a court case against the Pentagon, but the Defense Department still considers it a supply-chain risk, underscoring how frontier AI labs are increasingly drawn into political and regulatory conflicts.
The Pentagon has launched custom versions of ChatGPT and Grok, called ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, for its 3 million personnel through a secure portal, GenAI.mil, to enhance productivity and security without exposing sensitive data.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal, violating the First and Fifth Amendments.
A US judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful.
A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's attempt to designate Anthropic a national security risk, ruling the action unconstitutional and arbitrary. The decision lifts sanctions imposed by multiple agencies, though the Pentagon is not required to use Anthropic's AI models.
The US Air Force is exploring agentic AI to help manage maintenance data for its aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles, whose replacement remains delayed. The AI would unify data from ~60 fragmented sources to speed up repair and replacement decisions.
The US Army is poised to sign a landmark contract to acquire and deploy Enduring High Energy Laser weapons to defend bases against drone attacks, marking the first large-scale commitment to laser weapons in US military history.
The Pentagon's Space Development Agency, established to speed up military space system deployment, has faced delays but is now launching operational satellites as plans move to absorb it back into the Space Force's procurement pipeline.
A rocket motor exploded during a test at an Anduril facility in Mississippi, damaging the test stand but causing no injuries. The incident is another setback for the startup's efforts to become a major supplier of missile propulsion systems, as it has faced delays and technical issues in mass-producing rocket motors.
A data exposure at Peter Thiel's private Dialog group leaked personal information of US national security officials, including an NSC official and an active-duty intelligence officer, prompting a Pentagon investigation into the misconfigured website.
The Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer confirmed in a court filing that xAI's Grok Gov was used in US targeting systems during operations against Iran, helping deploy over 2,000 munitions against 2,000 targets in 96 hours. The disclosure emerged as a side effect of a Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's data center, not through official defense channels.
Pentagon revealed that Elon Musk's Grok AI replaced Anthropic's Claude in Project Maven and enabled over 2,000 military strikes on Iran in 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury.