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Ukraine said Wednesday that SpaceX abruptly limited its military-grade Starlink access without warning. Musk replied on X that the US government owns Starshield and that the US military and president decide any limits.
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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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ZyMix, a UK student super app, has a contract with a German-based Tencent subsidiary, the Guardian reported. The company says the contract covers auxiliary services and does not include storing user data.
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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said on Face the Nation that the Pentagon replaced Anthropic's AI models with no operational impact. No cost or quality figures were reported, so operators weighing a model-agnostic design still have to test a swap on their own work.
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Elbridge Colby approved a Pentagon program that pays cyber troops up to $2,500 for novel achievements, offensive operations included, effective Oct. 5. The instruction text DefenseScoop quotes ties each award to a single result and does not mention retention.
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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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Petra Power has won nearly $9 million in Defense Department contracts for its solid-oxide fuel cells, founder Aaron Goodman told TechCrunch. The cells are still in testing for military ground vehicles, so their efficiency case rests for now on Goodman's own account of how they work.
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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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The Pentagon is committing about $350 million to quantum computing aimed at military logistics, advanced materials and next-generation weapons. For vendors, the related money with a stated purpose so far pays to build quantum hardware.
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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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Castelion posted the first public image of Blackbeard firing from a truck, a hypersonic missile aimed at about 80% of PrSM Increment 4's capability for less. Whether it fits the Army's existing rocket launchers is still a planned step that the photo cannot confirm.
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Anthropic is building a team to brief both parties' 2028 presidential candidates on AI before an IPO that could value it at up to $2 trillion. Putting the briefings and the company's political funding under one lead turns White House policy into a standing, salaried function.
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Insta360 opened its first U.S. flagship store in Times Square, courting a market its co-founder says brings in 30% to 40% of revenue. It is moving in as the FCC blocks rival DJI's new drones and cameras, though its own drone brand faces an FCC ban on new foreign-made drones.
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Pentagon planners have drafted three days of strikes on Iran that list its energy facilities among possible targets, The New York Times reported. Trump's pledge of no attack before the Nov. 3 midterms covers 26 days, so the supply risk belongs in plans for the weeks after the vote.
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Wolfspeed has been offered up to $1.5bn in conditional 30-year US defence loans, with warrants on up to 7.5% of its equity issued as tranches fund. Buyers of silicon carbide and gallium nitride parts can count it as supply only once the loan closes and money moves.
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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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Proposed federal rules would require contractors holding controlled unclassified information to report breaches within 72 hours of discovery. Procurement attorneys say the rules could arrive as soon as the end of this year, and likely no later than the end of President Trump's term.
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Pentagon's Tradewinds program grants AI vendors post-competitive status on the strength of a pitch video no longer than five minutes. Acceptance buys a marketplace listing and a faster contract route, but a government buyer still has to pick the product.
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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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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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