| 2026-06-01 | MGX (Tahnoon/G42/Mubadala) Ups Anthropic Stake; Now Holds All Three Frontier AI Labs
3 src Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed · MGX · G42 · Mubadala · +6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | FPDS Audit Finds SBIR Phase III 'Exclusion of Sources' Sole-Source Fingerprint Systemic Across Defense-AI Startup Cohort — $1.0B+ Non-Competitive, 91% Anduril; Larger Firms Route Around FPDS via OTA
5 src Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Shield AI · Vannevar Labs · +6 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Confirms Working to Replace Anthropic's Claude — OpenAI Already Deployed, Google Gemini Next in Line
3 src Cameron Stanley · Emil Michael · OpenAI · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements
1 src Pentagon CDAO · OpenAI · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Broad Tech Coalition Files Amicus Briefs Supporting Anthropic — TechNet Warns Procurement Now "Contingent on Political Favor"
3 src TechNet · Sam Altman · OpenAI · Google · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-12 | AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign
7 src OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-08 | EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk
5 src OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-07 | OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns
6 src OpenAI · Caitlin Kalinowski · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-05 | Anthropic Reopens Pentagon Talks as Defense Experts Warn Blacklist Sets Dangerous Precedent for AI Safety
6 src Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | AI Industry Super PAC Backed by OpenAI Insiders and Palantir Pours Millions Into Blocking AI-Regulation Candidate Alex Bores
5 src OpenAI · Palantir Technologies · Greg Brockman · Joe Lonsdale · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Surveillance Loophole Backlash, Critics Remain Unconvinced
6 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Katrina Mulligan |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | AI Industry Super PACs Deploy $125 Million to Target Pro-Regulation Candidates in 2026 Midterms
7 src Greg Brockman · OpenAI · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal Hours After Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Drawing Backlash
5 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-11 | FTC Launches Investigation into AI Companion Chatbots' Impact on Children
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Alphabet · Character.AI · Meta · +4 |
| reported |
| 2025-08-27 | Silicon Valley Launches $200 Million Super PAC to Block AI Regulations Ahead of Midterms
3 src Meta · Andreessen Horowitz · Greg Brockman · OpenAI |
| reported |
| 2025-01-28 | OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2
3 src OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Federal Government · Microsoft Azure Government |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-13 | Trump Inauguration Raises Record $245 Million with $161 Million from Corporations Facing Federal Enforcement
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee · Amazon · Meta · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-06 | Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI
5 src Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-04 | OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems
2 src OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement
3 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-04-23 | Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio
5 src Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |