Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentago defense board raises conflict-of-interest concerns The Guardian - US · Oct 1
Pentagon official in charge of military AI policy sold millions worth of stock in AI firm. Pentagon says he is ‘in full compliance with ethics laws’ "Any claims otherwise are false." We Got This Covered · Sep 2
Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m The Guardian - US · Sep 1
Pentagon AI Photo Showing Prompt To 'Create a War' Sparks Mass Panic Before Harmless Truth Revealed A Pentagon photo showing an AI prompt to 'Create a WAR' sparked online panic, later clarified as a tool for Weekly Action Reports, not military planning. International Business Times UK · Jul 31
Hegseth's Iran war math doesn't add up The defense secretary pegged the war's cost at $37 billion. The real total is far higher Salon · Jul 26
Trump Official Slams Anthropic Days After It Backed White House's Moonshot AI Theft Allegations: 'No AI Company More Hostile to the Warfighter' On Friday, after Anthropic endorsed White House accusations that Chinese startup Moonshot AI stole U.S. artificial intelligence capabilities, a senior Defense official criticized the company over its military AI policies. Benzinga · Jul 25
The Hegseth budget: defense secretary’s $1.5tn ask reveals military-industrial chaos The Pentagon head proposed a 44% increase – to second world war levels – while ‘woke’ programs are gutted The Guardian - US · Jul 23
Anthropic has bucked the rules of Trump's Washington. It's cost them. Most tech companies have tried to curry favor with the White House and hired 'Trump whisperers.' Anthropic has stood on principle, and suffered the consequences. Fortune · Jun 30
‘Use GenAI.mil, do the best you can': Pentagon officials boast of using AI to generate Congress reports 1.5 million Pentagon workers now use GenAI.mil as Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael encourages its use. TechRadar · Jun 20
The Pentagon claims a 1,775% boost in AI use is paying off the DOGE promise a year later—but adoption is still under 50% From 80,000 Defense personnel using AI tools in December 2025, it was 1.5 million in June. Fortune · Jun 19
US Pentagon deploys Anthropic's Mythos to patch cyber gaps while planning to ditch firm The Pentagon is reportedly using Anthropic's AI, codenamed Mythos, to shore up its cybersecurity defenses and fix vulnerabilities. However, this move is happening concurrently with plans to eventually phase out their reliance on the company, suggesting a strategic, albeit temporary, partnership for immediate needs. The Economic Times · May 12
Who is Emil Michael? Pentagon Official Sold xAI Stake for $24M After Landing Defense Deal How Emil Michael turned a $1M investment into a $24M profit with xAI, while navigating his influential role in Pentagon AI projects and facing ethical scrutiny. Learn more about the intersection of AI, military, and ethics. International Business Times UK · Apr 10
US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interests The Guardian - US · Apr 9
Scoop: Altman told staff he tried to "save" Anthropic in Pentagon clash Altman privately vented that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had spent years trying to undermine him. Axios · Mar 26
Axios · Mar 26 Behind the Curtain: How Anthropic's Pentagon deal could get revived Here's one possibility to keep an eye on.
Axios · Mar 19 Pentagon: Anthropic's foreign workforce poses security risks The Defense Department is raising red flags about a key element of the AI industry — its reliance on global talent.
PC Gamer · Mar 10 Anthropic is suing the US government for blacklisting it and it's calling in support from Google and OpenAI Claude in the middle.
Fortune · Mar 7 Top Pentagon official recalls the 'whoa moment' when defense leaders realized how indispensable Anthropic is and saw the risk of losing access "I'm not biased," Michael said. "I just I want all of them. I want to give them all the same exact terms because I need redundancy."
The Independent UK · Mar 7 Pentagon's chief tech officer says he clashed with AI company Anthropic over autonomous warfare A top Pentagon official says a fight with Anthropic centered on how the military could someday use artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons
We Got This Covered · Mar 1 Pentagon accuses Anthropic CEO of a ‘God Complex’ and threatens to seize AI tech Anthropic is holding its ground, insisting that AI isn’t reliable for robotic weaponry or sweeping surveillance.
Axios · Feb 28 Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic AI from all government work The penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, like China's Huawei.
Fortune · Feb 27 Who is Emil Michael, the Trump official leading the war against Anthropic? Michael, the Undersecretary of War, cut his teeth at Uber and has vowed not to bend to 'woke' AI.
The Independent UK · Feb 27 Trump orders all federal agencies to ‘immediately cease’ using Anthropic technology Anthropic's main rivals, OpenAI and Google, voiced support for Amodei's stance in an open letter late on Thursday
Fortune · Feb 27 The Pentagon brands Anthropic CEO a ‘liar’ with a ‘God complex’ as deadline looms The Department of War has given Anthropic until 5 p.m. Friday to remove restrictions on how the military can use its AI, or face being labeled a national security threat.
The Guardian - US · Feb 24 US military leaders pressure Anthropic to bend Claude safeguards Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield