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Pentagon chief technology officer who told a DARPA software conference he wanted the mathematics underpinning Atalanta's technology to become the DoD's gold standard.
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Donald Trump's new AI task force is co-chaired by four officials from intelligence, personnel, technology and the FTC who represent competing views on AI. Product teams should plan around the features each camp has already objected to.
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President Trump named intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a White House AI task force with 120 days to set a federal plan for AI risks. With the spy chief in charge, AI companies are likelier to face federal demands on incident reporting than rules on how models are built.
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Donald Trump signed a 'morally binding' AI pact with six CEOs, then made intelligence chief Jay Clayton his AI czar. For firms building on American models, the appointment carries more consequence than a pledge they have no way to enforce.
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Executive Order 14434 makes 'Super Intelligence' the federal term for AI, with a task force under DNI Jay Clayton reporting to President Trump. The one enforcement action on record is an FTC probe of AI agents, opened the day after the order was signed.
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AI chiefs signed Trump's Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, a pact he calls "morally binding" and TechCrunch calls "deeply non-binding." For teams that buy or build AI, it creates no duty and no protection they can plan around.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the Project Meridian study 120 days to report on what US forces need to fight future wars. Defense-tech vendors now have a report date to plan around, co-written by two executives whose companies already sell drones and satellites to the government.
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Donald Trump says he dined for two and a half hours with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, after attacking the company in February over its limits on military use. Buyers who paused now hear a warmer tone, though reporting shows no movement in the Pentagon dispute over those limits.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to lead a 120-day study of where the US military falls short. Two of the three run companies that hold Pentagon contracts, so the military's suppliers will help draft the first list of what it lacks.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced AUTOWARCOM, a four-star command for autonomous and robotic warfare with "service-like authorities" he did not define. Defense suppliers now have a command to plan around before anyone has said whether it will hold money or sign contracts.
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Ted Cruz says he is writing AI catastrophic-risk legislation with John Thune and Amy Klobuchar, while on the same day the Pentagon's chief technology officer and President Trump both dismissed the extinction warnings behind it.
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Atalanta is selling Argo on the strength of the satellite network Russia crippled in 2022. In the reporting, the math is attested by the vendor and its customer, and by nobody else.
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