military AI

4 briefs

power 2026-05-05

Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. Now It's on the Outside.

The DoD cleared 8 AI firms for classified networks and locked out the one company that refused to sign military use terms. This is what a fault line in AI looks like.

power 2026-05-05

Eight AI Companies Are Now Inside the Pentagon's Classified Networks

SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, and Reflection signed agreements to run their AI on DoD's most sensitive networks. The company that refused to sign is the one Congress just started worrying about.

power 2026-05-04

The Pentagon Replaced Anthropic. The Replacement Clause Is the Story.

Eight AI companies just agreed to deploy on classified military networks under 'lawful operational use.' Those three words are doing a lot of work.

power 2026-04-28

Google Signs Away Its Ethics Policies

Google and the Pentagon have agreed on a contract allowing 'any lawful' use of Google AI by the military. The word 'lawful' is doing enormous work in that sentence.