Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else

Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else

• US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to cut Anthropic from his department’s supply chain unless it agrees to sign off on its technology being used in all lawful milit

Consumer Tech · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 306 words
Pete Hegseth's Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

• Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers covering the broligarchs, the influencers, and the (potentially conscious) artificial intelligence models scram

Consumer Tech · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 231 words

Pete Hegseth goes to battle with Anthropic

• Should AI labs unquestioningly obey the Pentagon’s orders?