The Pentagon is expanding classified AI deals, battlefield tools, and autonomous-warfare command structures while Anthropic remains a flashpoint over surveillance, targeting, and procurement leverage. The White House is also moving toward model vetting after Mythos raised cyber-risk alarms. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Pentagon AI Deals: 8 Companies Join, Anthropic Blacklisted | byteiota — Byteiota https://byteiota.com/pentagon-ai-deals-8-companies-join-anthropic-blacklisted/ 2. White House Prepares Order to Boost AI Security, Says Economic Advisor — Insurance Journal https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/05/07/868812.htm 3. SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit | Technology News | Al Jazeera — Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/6/spacex-backs-anthropic-with-data-centre-deal-amidst-musks-openai-lawsuit 4. The Pentagon keeps promising to follow the law when using AI, but what are the limits? — CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/07/politics/us-military-ai-law-iran 5. The Pentagon’s New Sub-Unified Command for Autonomous Warfare:  What It Means and Where It Might Land | Inside Government Contracts — Inside Government Contracts https://www.insidegovernmentcontracts.com/2026/05/the-pentagons-new-sub-unified-command-for-autonomous-warfare-what-it-means-and-where-it-might-land/ Feedback? Email [email protected]

Hegseth’s supply-chain-risk move against Anthropic looks less like an instant industry-wide ban than a narrower procurement fight, while the Pentagon spreads classified AI work across rival vendors and Washington weighs voluntary frontier-model vetting. In this episode: Top stories: 1. What Hegseth’s “Supply Chain Risk” Designation of Anthropic Does and Doesn’t Mean — Just Security https://www.justsecurity.org/132851/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-designation/ 2. Federal Government and Anthropic: Considerations for AI Innovation and Competition - EveryCRSReport.com — Congressional Research Service https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF13217.html 3. US AI companies sign deals with Department of Defense - National Technology — National Technology https://nationaltechnology.co.uk/US_AI_companies_sign_deals_with_Department_of_Defense.php 4. Kicking the Tires: A Voluntary Path to Pre-Deployment AI Vetting | Lawfare — Lawfare https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/kicking-the-tires--a-voluntary-path-to-pre-deployment-ai-vetting Feedback? Email [email protected]