The Pentagon
also referred to as: pentagon
19 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2026 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 105 times in 14 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (86), Ranjan Roy (8), Michael Horowitz (7), Emil Michael (2), Bill Vass (1), Andrew Ross Sorkin (1)
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2026 104 mentions in 13 episodes 8 per episode
- Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
- The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
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Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Mar 4, 2026
US military used Anthropic's Claude for targeting during Iran air attack
“Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end use of its artificial intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropik, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools. Commands around the world, inclu…”
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Sam Altman is positioning OpenAI as a peace broker for Pentagon contracts
“He's trying to position this as like, they are the peace broker here, right? Like that they are the ones who are going to sort of iron out these differences between anthropic and the U S government by cutting their own deal that paves the path. To sort of do a…”
Mar 4, 2026
Anthropic's Pentagon deal collapsed over domestic bulk data surveillance
“On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. This could include information such as questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS tr…”
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Mar 6, 2026 positive
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: Pentagon had no active project disputes with Anthropic before fallout
“And Anthropic was also, there was no dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon about any current projects that Anthropic was doing. It wasn't like the Pentagon asked Anthropic to do something and Anthropic said no or had hesitations.”
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: Pentagon AI Policy Mandates 'All Lawful Uses' Clause
“The Pentagon updated its artificial intelligence policy about like a month or so ago, and one of the things that it did was say that all future contracts that it signed with any AI vendor, so not even necessarily just a frontier AI lab, would have to follow a …”
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: Tech companies partnering with Pentagon must expect wartime use cases
“When it comes to the use cases that Anthropic may be concerned about in different kinds of ways, I mean, the thing to remember is like, if you do business with the Pentagon, the business of the Pentagon is war. So you shouldn't be surprised then that the Penta…”
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Michael: Pentagon AI agent pilots are limited to enterprise operations
“But in terms of agents, we've had some agent pilots at our enterprise level. Remember I was talking about the enterprise corporate level? Just to do the mundane things we have to do every day. But those things are not sort of where we're at the war fighting le…”
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026 negative
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Michael: AI enables drone threat discrimination far beyond human capacity
“You could do much more, be more precise, be more specific about what you're going after, what you're defending how you know, and the precision is really what's interesting to me because if you can use AI to detect and discriminate and, by discriminate, I mean,…”
Apr 20, 2026 neutral