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🤖 Anthropic is back at the Pentagon table

Mar 5, 2026

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🤖 Anthropic is back at the Pentagon table

Talks resume, missiles fire for the first time in combat, and Europe is quietly building its own nuclear architecture.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🌊 A U.S. sub just sank a warship for the first time since WWII

Mar 4, 2026

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🌊 A U.S. sub just sank a warship for the first time since WWII

Five days in, Operation Epic Fury is rewriting the record books, and the procurement implications are just beginning.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🌊 The Strait of Hormuz is now a combat zone

Mar 3, 2026

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🌊 The Strait of Hormuz is now a combat zone

Day four of Epic Fury and Iran is striking U.S. embassies while the Pentagon warns the hardest hits are still to come.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
💥 Friendly fire, depleted interceptors, and a widening front

Mar 2, 2026

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💥 Friendly fire, depleted interceptors, and a widening front

Three days in, Operation Epic Fury has already delivered combat firsts, coalition friction, and an interceptor inventory problem worth watching.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 Anthropic Rejects Pentagon Demand to Loosen AI Safety Guardrails

Feb 27, 2026

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🤖 Anthropic Rejects Pentagon Demand to Loosen AI Safety Guardrails

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced that the company "cannot in good conscience" comply with a Department of Defense demand to remove safety precautions from its Claude AI model.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🚀 New Hypersonic Missile Concepts Aim for Unprecedented Atmospheric Speeds

Feb 26, 2026

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🚀 New Hypersonic Missile Concepts Aim for Unprecedented Atmospheric Speeds

Recent advancements in hypersonic propulsion are pushing the boundaries of missile technology, with new concepts focusing on air-breathing scramjet engines capable of sustained flight at speeds exceeding Mach 5.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 Hegseth Gives Anthropic Friday Deadline to Remove AI Military Guardrails

Feb 25, 2026

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🤖 Hegseth Gives Anthropic Friday Deadline to Remove AI Military Guardrails

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a Friday deadline to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, demanding the company remove ethical safeguards that restrict its AI technology from being used in unrestricted military applications.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧠 Lockheed Tests F-35 with AI to Rapidly ID Unknown Combat Contacts

Feb 24, 2026

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🧠 Lockheed Tests F-35 with AI to Rapidly ID Unknown Combat Contacts

Lockheed Martin has successfully flight-tested a new artificial intelligence capability, known as Project Overwatch, integrated directly into the F-35’s information fusion system.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
⚡ U.S. and Chinese Fighter Jets Face Off in Aerial Standoff Over Yellow Sea

Feb 23, 2026

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⚡ U.S. and Chinese Fighter Jets Face Off in Aerial Standoff Over Yellow Sea

A brief but tense aerial standoff occurred between U.S. Air Force F-16s and Chinese fighter jets over international waters in the Yellow Sea earlier this week.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🗣️ Anduril’s Fury Unmanned Fighter Successfully Intercepts Targets via Verbal Voice Commands

Feb 20, 2026

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🗣️ Anduril’s Fury Unmanned Fighter Successfully Intercepts Targets via Verbal Voice Commands

Anduril Industries has achieved a breakthrough in human-machine teaming by demonstrating its Fury autonomous fighter jet responding to direct verbal commands.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
⚔️ Marine Corps Leverages AI to Drastically Shorten Tactical Kill Chains

Feb 19, 2026

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⚔️ Marine Corps Leverages AI to Drastically Shorten Tactical Kill Chains

The U.S. Marine Corps is operationalizing its new AI Strategy, specifically focusing on shortening the "sensor-to-effector" kill chain from minutes to mere seconds.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧠 Army AI Tools Process Thousands of Targets Daily in European Exercise

Feb 18, 2026

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🧠 Army AI Tools Process Thousands of Targets Daily in European Exercise

During the recent Dynamic Front 26 exercise in Germany and Romania, the U.S. Army successfully utilized in-house artificial intelligence tools to manage an unprecedented volume of battlefield data.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
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