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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
CDAO Cameron Stanley confirmed the DoD has begun engineering work on internally developed LLMs and expects them operational "very soon," with xAI and OpenAI as interim alternatives. Defense Secretary Hegseth's supply-chain-risk designation against Anthropic remains in effect. The Pentagon is also planning to give commercial AI firms access to classified training data. TechCrunch
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— After Dario Amodei refused to remove safety guardrails for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, Trump ordered every federal agency to "immediately cease" using Anthropic. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk — a classification normally rese...
DoD added custom builds of OpenAI's and xAI's models to the secure portal it launched last year with Google Gemini, exempting military versions from consumer data collection (TechCrunch). 1.7 million of 3 million personnel have onboarded, with Grok for Government shipping reas...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
The single biggest AI story this week resolved with maximum drama. After Anthropic refused the February 27 deadline ("We cannot in good conscience accede"), three things happened in rapid succession: The Ban: Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic products...
The Trump administration filed a brief September 1 in Manhattan federal court supporting OpenAI against the New York Times and other newspapers, arguing that "training of LLMs on written works is exceedingly transformative" and that the United States has a strong interest in t...
An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
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