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The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos

The Pentagon’s Tradewinds programme lets AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, pitch in videos of up to five minutes and win contracts fast. We explain how the process works, what the numbers show, why this year’s brief asks for kill chain agents, how other transaction deals and their $100m and $500m thresholds work, and why transparency lags.

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US Court Sides With Pentagon in Anthropic AI Ban

A divided US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s exclusion of Anthropic, which began when the company refused to drop two safeguards on Claude. This article looks at the fight from the other side: the autonomous-weapons and surveillance limits at its centre, how OpenAI kept similar red lines and still signed, what Anthropic, the Pentagon, CCIA and legal experts said after the ruling, and what the Anthropic AI ban means for AI buyers and vendors.

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US Appeals Court Declines to Block Pentagon’s Blacklisting of Anthropic

A divided D.C. Circuit panel has upheld the Department of War’s decision to exclude Anthropic’s Claude from its supply chain under 41 U.S.C. 4713. We explain the 2-1 ruling, Judge Henderson’s dissent, why a California court reached the opposite result on a different statute, and what the Pentagon blacklisting means for contractors and Anthropic’s IPO.

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