Pentagon threatens Anthropic as Trump allies embrace Musk's problematic Grok
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February 17, 2026
Trump's war secretary, "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth, is threatening to blackball Anthropic's Claude over politics, as Trump denounces "woke AI" in favor of CSAM-generating "MechHitler" Grok.
It would appear that by questioning the Pentagon turning Claude into a mass surveillance tool, and developing self-firing AI weapons, Anthropic got on the administration's bad side. — Read the rest
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