National Security

Times of India draws parallels between Anthropic's Fable 5 export ban and the 1999 US government classification of Apple's Power Mac G4 as a weapon.

The Trump administration's export control order on Anthropic's advanced AI models is alarming foreign governments and pushing them to seek non-US AI alternatives.

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off foreign access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security, after the company refused military surveillance use.

US officials will safety test unreleased AI models from Google, Microsoft and xAI for national security risks.

OpenAI is pitching advanced models for government cybersecurity work as federal agencies seek stronger defenses.

US House lawmakers are pushing AI export control measures to close loopholes that allow China to access powerful US AI technology, including Nvidia chips.

House Republicans are pushing for sanctions against Chinese entities that improperly extract outputs from leading US AI models to replicate their capabilities.

A federal appeals court declined to pause the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic, a major setback for the AI firm's legal challenge.

The UK is actively recruiting Anthropic to expand its presence in Britain, capitalizing on the AI firm's ongoing dispute with the U.S. Pentagon.

The US Department of War has raised fresh national security concerns about Anthropic in a court filing, citing the AI company's employment of a large number of foreign nationals including workers from China, arguing this increases adversarial risk under China's National Intelligence Law.

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.

The Pentagon's chief technology officer says the DoD is confident it can phase out Anthropic's Claude within the six-month deadline, deploying OpenAI and Gemini as alternatives, even as military users and industry experts warn the transition will be complex.

The Trump administration filed a court brief arguing Anthropic's AI safety restrictions make it an unacceptable national security risk, defending the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation.

The U.S. Department of Defense has begun engineering work to replace Anthropic's Claude AI across its systems after labeling the company a supply-chain risk, while Anthropic sues the Pentagon in federal court challenging the unprecedented blacklist.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei vows to challenge in court the Pentagon's unprecedented decision to label the AI company a national security supply chain risk, the first time a US firm has received such a designation.

The U.S. Department of War terminated its $200M contract with Anthropic after the AI company refused to lift safety restrictions on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, designating it an unprecedented supply-chain risk to national security.

In response to the Pentagon's ban, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated, ‘We are patriotic Americans,’ and reiterated the company's commitment to defending the U.S. while upholding its ‘red lines’ on AI safety.

President Trump has directed all federal agencies to phase out Anthropic's Claude AI, labeling the company a national security threat after it refused Pentagon demands to remove safety guardrails for military use.

OpenAI warns US lawmakers that Chinese startup DeepSeek used distillation techniques to extract capabilities from US AI models, posing business and national security threats.

OpenAI brings secure ChatGPT to GenAI.mil, the Pentagon's AI platform serving 3 million military and civilian personnel with enhanced safeguards.