The Frontier

Eric Schmidt says the Pentagon can sustain the blockade indefinitely but at a high opportunity cost, diverting 10,000 personnel and critical ships and munitions from the Indo-Pacific and European theaters.

Stumpf notes the Pentagon has never passed a full financial audit. The Defense Department is the only major federal agency that has failed to do so since audits began in 2018.

A political conflict erupted between Anthropic and the Pentagon over using Claude for autonomous weapons. After Anthropic sued, OpenAI signed a deal with the Department of War, triggering a 775% surge in one-star ChatGPT reviews.