
900 Google and OpenAI Workers Demand Military AI Limits
Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.
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Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.

Gavin Kliger, a former DOGE official who reposted white supremacist content, is now the Pentagon's chief data officer and top AI decision-maker.

The Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that its supply chain risk designation is effective immediately - the first time the US government has applied this label to a domestic tech company.

Dario Amodei tells a Morgan Stanley audience he is trying to 'deescalate' the Pentagon dispute, as the FT reports both sides are back at the table with under-secretary Emil Michael.

Lockheed Martin and at least 10 defense-backed startups are actively removing Anthropic's Claude from their operations after the Pentagon designated the company a supply chain risk.

Days after securing a Pentagon classified network deal, OpenAI is exploring a contract to deploy AI on NATO's unclassified systems - a 32-nation alliance spanning North America and Europe.

Anthropic will challenge the Pentagon's unprecedented supply chain risk designation in court, calling it legally unsound and a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government.

OpenAI secured a Pentagon classified network deal with prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons - the exact same terms that got Anthropic banned from all federal agencies hours earlier.

President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a public statement rejecting the Pentagon's final terms, saying the proposed compromise language 'would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.' The Friday 5:01 PM deadline still stands.

The Pentagon sent Anthropic its final terms for unrestricted military AI use Wednesday night, with a 5:01 PM Friday deadline that could end in contract cancellation, supply chain blacklisting, or Defense Production Act invocation.

A King's College London study pitted Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other in nuclear crisis simulations. Tactical nuclear weapons were deployed in 20 out of 21 games. No model ever surrendered.