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267 articles decelerating

Pentagon has appeared in 267 articles since 2015-08. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 66 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside DOD, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft.

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Baked In
On March 21, the Pentagon made Palantir's Maven — which runs on Claude — an official program of record. On March 22, Anthropic filed that it cannot manipulate C...
Supply Chain Risk
The DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk for reserving the right to refuse military orders. The same day, Ramp data showed Anthropic capturing 73% of ne...
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...
The Backers
A leaked memo shows Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater." The same day, some of Anthropic's own investors pushed the company to back down. Six...
The Vacuum
In 2018, a dozen Google employees resigned over a Pentagon AI contract. Eight years later, Palmer Luckey's Anduril is raising $4 billion at a $30 billion valuat...

Coverage Timeline

2026-03-20
Axios 8 related

Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is “different” from other companies'

The Pentagon is highlighting new national security concerns about Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, according to a court filing.

2026-03-19
Axios 11 related

Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is “different” from other companies'

The Pentagon is highlighting new national security concerns about Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, according to a court filing.

2026-03-18
Wired 25 related

Filing: the US DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines”

In response to Anthropic's lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit …

2026-03-15
Bloomberg 7 related

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran

An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran.

2026-03-14
Bloomberg 7 related

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran

An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran.

2026-03-08
Noahpinion 5 related

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force

They like to ignore the fact that the actual discussion is whether a technology with a 5% hallucination rate should make decisions about who to kill or not. …

2026-03-07
Noahpinion 10 related

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force

They like to ignore the fact that the actual discussion is whether a technology with a 5% hallucination rate should make decisions about who to kill or not. …

2026-03-06
Noahpinion 3 related

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force

Noah Smith /Noahpinion:

2026-03-04
Techdirt 10 related

OpenAI's “red lines” in its DOD agreement effectively adopt the words that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the very things they appear to prohibit

Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance …

2026-03-03
Stratechery 8 related

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the iPod, and moreJudd R...

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Pentagon has appeared in 159 Techmeme articles since August 2015. The biggest stories include Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon... and Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump.... Frequently covered alongside Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Oracle. Coverage has shifted toward safety, developer themes and away from enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +42pts; consumer +33pts; funding -25pts
2024Q3enterprise +33pts; consumer -33pts
2024Q4enterprise -75pts; regulation +25pts

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