Meta worked with Rank One Computing, a Pentagon-linked AI surveillance firm, to prototype facial recognition for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, raising major privacy and civil liberties concerns.
The Pentagon signed new classified AI agreements with major technology firms including OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS.
The Pentagon's AI chief discussed expanded DOD use of Google Gemini following controversy over Anthropic access.
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.
President Trump told CNBC an Anthropic deal with the Department of Defense is 'possible,' reversing earlier moves to cut the AI firm from government contracts.
The NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos Preview AI tool even though the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, raising national security concerns.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to discuss the new Claude Mythos AI model amid an ongoing dispute with the Pentagon.
Anthropic is in talks with the Trump administration about its new frontier AI model Mythos, even as the Pentagon blacklisted the firm over a contract dispute.
A New York Times investigation reveals the US military's autonomous drone programs are lagging China's, raising urgent concerns about an AI-driven global arms race.
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 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.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction halting the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, ruling the move was likely unlawful retaliation for the company's refusal to remove AI safety guardrails for military use.
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.
A memo from Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg confirms the Pentagon will designate Palantir's Maven AI as an official program of record, embedding its weapons-targeting technology across all US military branches by September 2026.
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.
