Department of Defense
also referred to as: dod
11 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2023 by Palmer Luckey · said 6 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Apr 4, 2023 positive
Mar 6, 2026
Horowitz: Pentagon gave Anthropic six-month off-ramp because it lacks alternative vendors
“They laid out this six-month off-ramp period for, like, real national security use cases, in part because they rely on Anthropix technology right now because Anthropix is the only vendor. Like behind the current curtain in a classified environment.”
Mar 6, 2026 bearish
Kantrowitz: Pentagon dispute will cause long-term damage to Anthropic
“This does do long-term damage to anthropic because even if these laws, or even if the, let's say the supply chain risk designation ever makes it to them or is overruled, public sector companies, contractors will just in the back of their mind think twice befor…”
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: Claude is definitively not conducting autonomous targeting on the battlefield
“A thing that Claude is definitively not doing, At least as far as I know. Like, I would be genuinely shocked. What is autonomous targeting on the battlefield today? Like that, it, I would be astounded if that was a Claude specific task.”
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Warner: DOD designating Anthropic a supply chain risk is a death sentence
“Hegsef is going to declare, is trying to declare Anthropik a supply chain risk. That would mean that not only Anthropic couldn't do business with DOD, but any company, and virtually every major company in America does some level of business with DOD, they coul…”
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026
Michael: Pentagon Counter-UAS task force is developing lasers and electronic warfare
“We have a counter UAS, counter unmanned systems task force that's looking at everything from lasers, directed energy, which is one of my critical priority areas, to how do you do electronic warfare on these things to take them down.”