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24 articles accelerating

Defense has appeared in 24 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 8 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Anthropic, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, DOD.

Articles
24
mentions
Velocity
+700.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+7.000
velocity change
Sources
16
publications
The Resignation
In 2018, a dozen Google employees resigned over a Pentagon AI contract and killed it. In 2026, OpenAI's head of robotics resigned over a Pentagon AI contract an...

Coverage Timeline

2026-02-23
Axios 15 related

Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources …

2026-02-16
Axios 23 related

A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …

2019-10-23
Nextgov 9 related

Defense Secretary Esper recuses himself from JEDI contract decisions to avoid conflict of interest with his son's employer IBM, an original contract bidder

2015-04-24
TechCrunch 5 related

Defense Secretary Tries To Thaw Relations With Silicon Valley, Opens New ‘Defense Innovation Unit X’

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch :

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Quarterly Coverage

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Defense has appeared in 295 Techmeme articles since March 2015. The biggest stories include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain... and Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on.... Frequently covered alongside Pentagon, Google, Trump, Microsoft, and Anthropic. Coverage has shifted toward funding, enterprise themes and away from regulation, research.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +12pts; safety +30pts; consumer -23pts
2024Q3enterprise -20pts; safety -10pts; developer +40pts
2024Q4enterprise +22pts; safety -20pts; developer -40pts

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