The Pentagon clash with Anthropic and Friday's severe response from Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth highlights a growing ...

The dispute between the Department of Defense, Anthropic, and OpenAI has sparked a broader debate over who sets the terms for how AI systems are used.

Defense chief Pete Hegseth has threatened to force the company to lift guardrails against greater military use of AI.

Trump touts a $1 trillion defense budget, a $1,776 troop bonus and a tougher stance on Iran in his 2026 State of the Union.

The new director, Paul Craft, will "reorient" DOD schools toward "patriotic values and classical learning," Hegseth said.

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 153. In September 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War', reverting ...

When workers at the Pentagon quietly removed “Department of Defense” plaques and replaced them with new bronze signs reading “Department of War,” the reaction was immediate. Photos of Defense ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 announced that the U.S. Department of Defense will end sponsorship of active-duty military students in graduate programs at Princeton University and other Ivy ...

At the heart of this dispute is how Anthropic’s large language model Claude is being used in a military context.

There are some moral lines AI powerhouse Anthropic won't cross. Too bad the same can’t be said about OpenAI and other such firms.

The Pentagon, CBP and the FAA said in a statement that the military mitigated "a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth finishes the installation of a Department of War plaque at the Pentagon, Nov. 13, 2025. (Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech/Air Force) The Trump administration’s effort to rename ...