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57 stories covering AI & Military.

March 18, 2026

LeadGovernanceAI & MilitaryHighWed, Mar 18, 12:00 AM

One Announcement, Fifteen Communities, the Same Dread

A single infrastructure event sent AI discourse across finance, military, science, and open source into simultaneous overdrive — revealing which communities had been waiting for this moment and which were caught flatfooted.

LeadGovernanceAI & MilitaryHighWed, Mar 18, 4:00 AM

Who Controls the Model Controls the War

The Pentagon's classified AI training program didn't just raise defense questions — it collapsed the wall between open-source idealism and military realpolitik, and the communities that got caught in the middle are still sorting out what they believe.

March 20, 2026

LeadGovernanceAI & MilitaryHighFri, Mar 20, 8:00 AM

A Single Bluesky Post Reframed the Entire Military AI Debate

One question — repeated, tagged "DISTURBING THOUGHT OF THE DAY" — didn't just go viral. It gave a nervous community the vocabulary it had been missing.

March 21, 2026

LeadGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumSat, Mar 21, 4:00 AM

Anthropic Almost Got the Pentagon Contract Palantir Just Won

A court filing revealed Anthropic was one procurement cycle away from becoming U.S. military infrastructure — and the AI safety community is having trouble knowing what to do with that.

April 30, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryLowThu, Apr 30, 12:26 PM

Google Filled Anthropic's Empty Chair at the Pentagon Table

Anthropic's refusal to let the Pentagon weaponize its models opened a gap, and Google stepped in to fill it — over the objections of its own employees. The conversation around military AI has stopped debating whether it should happen and started watching who benefits from who says no.

April 28, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumTue, Apr 28, 10:54 PM

Google's 600 Employees Didn't Stop the Pentagon Deal. Now Anthropic's Restraint Is the Story.

Google signed its classified Pentagon AI contract over the objections of more than 600 of its own employees. The conversation has quietly shifted from whether Google would comply to whether Anthropic's refusal to follow makes any practical difference.

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumTue, Apr 28, 12:35 PM

Google Signed the Pentagon Deal. Six Hundred Employees Had Already Said No.

Google quietly inked a contract giving the Department of Defense access to its AI models for classified work — over the explicit objection of more than 600 of its own engineers. The employees wrote a letter. The company shipped anyway.

April 27, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumMon, Apr 27, 10:19 PM

Pete Hegseth Wants AI Weapons. Anthropic Won't Sell Them. OpenAI Is Filling the Gap.

Anthropic's refusal to let the Pentagon weaponize Claude has opened a market, and OpenAI is moving to capture it. The argument about who should build military AI — and on what terms — is now live in ways it wasn't six months ago.

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumMon, Apr 27, 2:04 PM

Pete Hegseth Wants AI Weapons. Anthropic Said No. The Argument Is Just Getting Started.

The military AI conversation has stopped being theoretical. Between the Hegseth-Anthropic standoff, a school bombing in Iran that the AI targeting system didn't flag, and Palantir declaring American cultural power dead, the people paying attention are no longer debating whether autonomous weapons exist — they're arguing about who controls them.

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumMon, Apr 27, 12:11 PM

A School Bombed in Iran, 170 Dead, and the AI Targeting System Didn't Alert Anyone

A report on the bombing of a school in Minab — and the silence from the AI targeting systems involved — is circulating in military AI conversations as something the usual accountability frameworks weren't built to handle.

April 23, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryThu, Apr 23, 12:57 PM

Autonomous Weapons Are Almost Here. The Argument About What to Do With That Has Already Fractured.

From the Pentagon's AI command structure to autonomous drones testing over Latin America, the military AI conversation is less about whether these systems will exist and more about who controls them — and who gets targeted first.

April 20, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryLowMon, Apr 20, 11:02 PM

Palantir Published a Manifesto. The Reaction Tells You Where the Military AI Argument Actually Lives.

Alex Karp's 22-point defense of AI weaponry and military drafts landed not in policy circles but in a Bluesky feed already primed to see the company as a threat to democratic governance. What the backlash reveals about who's actually shaping the military AI conversation.

April 18, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumSat, Apr 18, 3:33 PM

Trump Banned Anthropic From the Pentagon. The CEO Called It a Relief.

When the White House ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's technology, the company's CEO described the resulting restrictions as less severe than feared. That response landed in a conversation already asking hard questions about who controls military AI.

April 17, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumFri, Apr 17, 2:07 PM

Anthropic Signed a Pentagon Deal and the Conversation Around It Turned Into a Referendum on Google

The Anthropic-Pentagon contract is driving a surge in military AI discussion — but the posts generating the most heat aren't about Anthropic. They're about what Google promised in 2018, and whether any of it held.

April 16, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumThu, Apr 16, 10:27 PM

Admiral Cooper Said the US Military Uses AI Every Day Against Iran. The Conversation Erupted.

A senior commander's casual confirmation that AI is already embedded in live combat operations landed differently than a policy speech — because it wasn't a policy speech.

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumThu, Apr 16, 3:04 PM

r/NonCredibleDefense Is Laughing. The Volume Underneath Isn't Funny.

Military AI conversation nearly tripled in 24 hours, but the posts driving it aren't tactical briefings or policy debates — they're jokes, memes, and absurdist shitposts. The gap between the discourse and its subject has never been wider.

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumThu, Apr 16, 12:24 PM

r/NonCredibleDefense Is Laughing. The Volume Underneath Isn't Funny.

Military AI conversation nearly tripled in 24 hours, but the posts driving it aren't tactical briefings or policy debate — they're memes, shitposts, and autonomous weapons hype from communities that treat the subject as entertainment.

April 13, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryMon, Apr 13, 3:29 PM

When the Pentagon Blacklisted Anthropic, the Military AI Conversation Found Its Sharpest Edge

The Defense Department's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk for refusing autonomous weapons contracts exposed a fault line that the AI safety community had long tried to avoid: you can't stay neutral on weapons forever.

April 12, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumSun, Apr 12, 3:33 PM

Anthropic Got Blacklisted for Ethics. The Conversation It Sparked Is Getting Darker.

When the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk for refusing to arm autonomous weapons, the online reaction started with outrage at the government. It's migrated somewhere more unsettling.

April 11, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumSat, Apr 11, 3:04 PM

A US Defense Official Made Millions on xAI Stock. The Internet Noticed the Timeline.

A Guardian report on a Pentagon official profiting from xAI stock after the military's deal with the company has landed in a community already primed for suspicion — and it's pulling together threads that had been circulating separately.

April 9, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryHighThu, Apr 9, 9:53 AM

Anthropic's Military Contradiction and the Drone Swarm That Changed the Argument

A legal fight over how Claude can be used by the Pentagon landed in the same week that AI-powered drone swarms went from theoretical to operational. The conversation is no longer about whether AI belongs in war — it's about who controls it.

April 6, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumMon, Apr 6, 10:28 AM

Claude Helped Bomb Iran, and the Tech Industry's Military Moment Is No Longer Hypothetical

A Bloomberg report that Anthropic's Claude assisted in targeting decisions during the Iran strikes has made abstract debates about AI in warfare suddenly, uncomfortably concrete — and the people most disturbed aren't the ones you'd expect.

April 3, 2026

StoryGovernanceAI & MilitaryHighFri, Apr 3, 6:41 PM

When the Pentagon Calls Its Killer Robot Something Else, the Internet Notices

A cluster of news stories about autonomous weapons this week share an unusual quality: they're all, in different ways, about who gets to name the thing. The conversation around lethal autonomous systems has turned sharply darker, and the framing war is half the story.

April 2, 2026

AnalysisGovernanceAI & MilitaryMediumThu, Apr 2, 12:06 PM

OpenAI Signed With the Pentagon While Anthropic Drew a Line — and Now the Industry Has to Choose a Side

The OpenAI-Pentagon deal and Anthropic's refusal to let its AI kill people unsupervised have forced a split that the military AI conversation can no longer paper over. Two companies, two philosophies, one Defense Department in the middle.

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