Until this week, Anthropic was the only AI company cleared to deploy its models on classified networks. Elon Musk's xAI is now the second.

Fears of militarising AI run deep at the two model-makers. At least until recently, both had safeguards against using AI to make weapons (the DOW has demanded that these be scrapped). The pair are also alert to the risk of losing their brainy AI researchers, many of whom come from abroad and may not share the Trump administration’s ideology.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Anthropic boss Dario Amodei that he has until Friday evening to remove restrictions on how the US military can use its Claude AI chatbot – or potentially face

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Colorado on Monday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent part of his weekend thinking about pizza. Specifically, he joked about ordering it in bulk to confuse people watching the Pentagon Pizza Report. While the idea sounded silly,

"We’ve got our people working on it right now,” said the U.S. Defense Secretary.

Hegseth added that defense officials are “aware” of open-sourced information and “look at every indicator,” which he linked — in broad terms — to how the U.S. executed Operation Midnight Hammer, the strikes on Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure.

I found the above-the-fold headline, quoting the so-called “secretary of war,” appalling (Feb. 9). This is not a serious person, for reasons I think many of your readers recognize. Firing senior women commanders (Coast Guard),