Trump’s defence secretary is on the front lines of the culture wars — but can he lead the US in a battle against Iran?

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Pentagon officials took to X to whine about their failed deal with AI company Anthropic, whose Claude program is already deeply entrenched into the military.

Defense secretary uses heavy-handed threats to relax AI guardrails. If he wins this battle, he’ll lose the war.

The OpenAI rival has options in its showdown with the Pentagon.

AI safety and research company Anthropic has told the Pentagon it will not agree to their demands to drop critical safety ...

Taking a hit for upholding safeguards probably isn't the worst thing for your reputation.

The Pentagon may decide to officially designate Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" to push them out of government, sources ...

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

The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has reportedly warned Anthropic that it could be removed from the Pentagon's supply chain if ...

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a deadline of 5:01 p.m. ET on Friday to agree to the removal of all safeguards, threatening to boot Claude from U.S. military systems ...

A public showdown between the Trump administration and Anthropic is hitting an impasse as military officials demand the ...