Saturday, 12 September 2026
The Pentagon says it has nearly finished pulling Anthropic out of its classified networks. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael told DefenseScoop "I'd say about 90% has transitioned", with the remainder due by the end of the month and OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok and Google's Gemini taking over. DefenseScoop reports the split followed Anthropic's attempt to write in contract terms barring mass surveillance of US citizens and fully autonomous lethal weapons, which the department rejected on the grounds that its software must be available for "all lawful purposes". Two cases are still live, one in the Northern District of California and one before the D.C. Circuit.