Military AI

CNBC reports Foundation Robotics Labs aims to deploy AI-enabled humanoid robots for military use within 12 to 18 months.

Google reportedly agreed to let the Pentagon use its AI models for classified work despite internal objections.

More than 600 Google staff signed a letter asking CEO Sundar Pichai to block the Pentagon from using Google AI models for classified military purposes.

A new investigation uncovers how Project Maven evolved into a broader Pentagon push for fully autonomous AI weapons, including explosive-laden drone systems.

The DOJ is appealing a federal judge's order that blocked the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic over Claude's military use guardrails.

Anthropic has filed a court response denying that it ever agreed to allow the Pentagon to sabotage or disable its Claude AI tools, contradicting DoD claims and escalating a high-profile dispute over AI safety guardrails in US military applications.

At a Google DeepMind town hall, VP Tom Lue and CEO Demis Hassabis told employees the company is actively expanding national security AI contracts with the Pentagon, having removed its previous pledge against weapons-related AI use.

More than 30 employees from Google DeepMind and OpenAI, including Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief warning that the Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic threatens the entire U.S. AI industry's global competitiveness and could trigger a broader revolt of tech workers.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly rejected the Pentagon's last-and-final contract offer, refusing to allow Claude AI to be used for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance despite threats of blacklisting and Defense Production Act enforcement.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid a standoff over the military's use of its AI model, Claude, with the Pentagon threatening to label the company a 'supply chain risk'.

The Pentagon is pushing AI companies including Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of their models for weapons development and battlefield operations, threatening to end partnerships with companies that refuse.

U.S. military deployed Anthropic's Claude AI during the operation to capture Venezuelan President Maduro, triggering tensions over AI ethics and military use policies.

Seattle-based Overland AI secures $100M led by 8VC to scale ULTRA autonomous tactical vehicles for U.S. military off-road operations.

Seattle-based Overland AI secured $100 million in Series B funding led by 8VC to meet surging demand for its ULTRA autonomous tactical vehicles used by the US military. The company's technology enables off-road autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments for dangerous combat engineering missions.

The Pentagon has announced it will integrate Elon Musk's Grok AI into its classified and unclassified military networks. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that all appropriate data would be available for 'AI exploitation'.