The United States and Israel have struck more than 15,000 targets since launching a war against Iran last month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday. “Between our air force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck. That’s well over 1,000 a day,” Hegseth told a news conference, adding…
Pentagon and Anthropic are locked in an unusual controversy as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has warned the AI company that it will remove it from his agency’s supply chain if it did not meet certain demands. The Pentagon has already reportedly taken the first step to blacklist Anthropic as it tapped its defense contractors to…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly given Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei until Friday (27 February) evening to grant the US military unfettered access to its flagship AI model, Claude, or face severe consequences, according to a report by axios. The ultimatum, delivered during what the Axios report stated citing officials in the know described…
A deepening dispute over how artificial intelligence should be used in modern warfare is now pushing the Pentagon toward an extraordinary step: treating a leading American AI firm as a security liability. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the company a “supply chain risk”, a senior Pentagon…
