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Pentagon’s Pivot Signals Preference for Unfettered Access: Phasing Out Anthropic, Building Internal LLMs

The Pentagon has moved to remove Anthropic’s Claude from classified systems after a contract breakdown over usage limits, labeled the company a supply-chain risk, and begun building its own LLMs while onboarding alternatives such as OpenAI and xAI. That shift reflects a concrete tradeoff: operational control and classified-network access versus vendor-imposed ethical restrictions. Contract fallout […]

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If procurement is unified, Anduril’s $20B Lattice deal becomes the Army’s counter‑drone backbone through 2036

The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries a firm-fixed-price contract worth up to $20 billion to deploy its AI-enabled Lattice command-and-control platform, integrating hardware, software, data, and sustainment into a single enterprise vehicle that replaces more than 120 prior procurement actions and runs through an estimated 2036 completion date. Consolidation in practice: the contract terms […]

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