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US Secretary of Defense (also styled Secretary of War) under President Trump, overseeing the Pentagon's military policy, operations, and technology initiatives.
Trump said Thursday that Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution will not be livestreamed, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Pentagon says the two are aligned and the execution still goes ahead.
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Researchers led by Stephen Hennigar at Pennington Biomedical found testosterone below 300 ng/dL in 26% of 479 male US Army personnel. The count is of readings against a cutoff, so it sizes the pool the new age-30 screening rule could flag.
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Anthropic petitioned the full D.C. Circuit on Oct. 13 to rehear a Sept. 25 panel ruling, decided 2-1, that upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on the company. The court has not yet said whether it will hear the case.
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Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X that executions should be "public and brutal," backing Hegseth's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Thom Tillis, both Republicans, have criticized that plan.
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Pentagon officials say the US will livestream the December 3 firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Every company that runs live video now has a fixed date to decide how it handles footage of a killing that the US government itself wants people to watch.
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USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after a record 321-day deployment supporting the US war with Iran. The Navy's published figures measure what its air wing flew and burned, while the strain on the crew came to light through Congress and the press.
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Anthropic lost a 2-1 appeals ruling on the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label, so the department's contractors still cannot use Claude. Civilian agencies can still buy from Anthropic after a California ruling the government did not appeal, so contractors serving both have to follow the stricter Pentagon rule.
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Judge Rita Lin found that the supply chain risk label was retaliation for Anthropic's refusal on mass surveillance and automated warfare, which makes the guardrail cheaper to hold than it looked in March.
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Dario Amodei has his first one-on-one with Trump on Sunday as Anthropic readies an expected IPO under a Pentagon blacklist a court upheld 2-1. A dinner can ease the feud with the president, but the ban on military use of Claude stays with the courts and the Pentagon.
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Pentagon told the BBC it has ceased using Anthropic's products, months after Pete Hegseth gave the department six months to drop them. For federal AI buyers, it shows a vendor designation being carried out even when the tool sits deep inside daily intelligence work.
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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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Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude after a phaseout that, per the BBC, overran Pete Hegseth's six-month deadline. Because Claude was built into Palantir's Maven, taking it out was harder than cutting off access to a chatbot.
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Trump is sending about 9,000 troops and a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East while calling more bombing of Iran after Nov. 3 "possible." For oil and rates, the case for a longer war rests on his refusal of an Iranian truce that offered to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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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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Anthropic says canceled contracts and halted partnerships could cost it billions as its supply-chain-risk label and federal ban reach past defense work. Even at $2 billion, the loss would be ten times the Pentagon deal it refused, carried through vendors that sell to both markets.
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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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D.C. Circuit judges voted 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over limits the company set on how Claude can be used. Investors weighing a listing discussed near $2 trillion now have to price a defense lockout that an appeals court has found lawful.
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Pete Hegseth announced an Autonomous Warfare Command with service-like powers to develop and field drones, the first new command since 2019, per Reuters. Until it launches within a year, that buying power exists only as an interim prototyping team and a budget request.
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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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