| 2026-03-23 | Sen. Warren Calls Anthropic Blacklist "Retaliation" for AI Safety Positions — Says DOD Trying to Strong-Arm Companies Into Bulk Surveillance Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-20 | Anthropic Filing Reveals Pentagon Emailed Day After Blacklist Saying Sides Were "Very Close" — Calls DOD Claim of Approval Demand "A Central Falsehood" Anthropic · Sarah Heck · Thiyagu Ramasamy · Emil Michael · +1 |
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| 2026-03-19 | Lawfare Analysis Argues Judge Should Block Government-Wide Ban and "Secondary Boycott" but Allow Pentagon to Stop Buying From Anthropic Alan Rozenshtein · Judge Rita Lin | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | AI Super PAC "Think Big" Spends $2.5M+ in Illinois Primaries With Mixed Results — Fortune Reports AI/Crypto "Mostly Lost" Think Big PAC · Jobs and Democracy PAC · Greg Brockman · Marc Andreessen |
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| 2026-03-18 | DOD Files 40-Page Rebuttal Claiming Anthropic Might "Disable Its Technology" During Warfighting Operations Over Corporate Red Lines Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic · Chris Mattei |
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| 2026-03-17 | ~150 Retired Federal and State Judges File Bipartisan Amicus Brief Supporting Anthropic Against Pentagon Blacklist former federal judges · Anthropic |
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| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements Pentagon CDAO · OpenAI · xAI |
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| 2026-03-16 | Broad Tech Coalition Files Amicus Briefs Supporting Anthropic — TechNet Warns Procurement Now "Contingent on Political Favor" TechNet · Sam Altman · OpenAI · Google · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Elon Musk · xAI |
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| 2026-03-16 | Time/CDT Op-Ed Reveals Pentagon Wanted Anthropic to Help Collect and Analyze Bulk Commercial Data on Americans Center for Democracy and Technology · Pentagon · Anthropic |
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| 2026-03-13 | 120+ House Democrats Demand Pentagon Explain AI's Role in Selecting Minab School Target That Killed 170+ Rep. Sara Jacobs · Pete Hegseth · House Democrats |
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| 2026-03-13 | Pentagon CTO Emil Michael Says "No Chance" of Renewed Anthropic Negotiations, Accuses Company of "Leaking and Bad Faith" Emil Michael · Anthropic · Pentagon |
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| 2026-03-09 | Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +3 |
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| 2026-03-08 | EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 |
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| 2026-03-07 | OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns OpenAI · Caitlin Kalinowski · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense |
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| 2026-03-06 | Anthropic Files Lawsuit Against Pentagon Over Unprecedented National Security Designation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth |
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| 2026-03-05 | Anthropic Reopens Pentagon Talks as Defense Experts Warn Blacklist Sets Dangerous Precedent for AI Safety Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +2 |
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| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a National Security Supply-Chain Risk, First US Company So Labeled Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 |
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| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Uses Banned Anthropic Claude to Select 1,000+ Iran Strike Targets While Simultaneously Blacklisting the Company Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · +1 |
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| 2026-03-03 | OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Surveillance Loophole Backlash, Critics Remain Unconvinced Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Katrina Mulligan |
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| 2026-02-27 | OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal Hours After Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Drawing Backlash Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 |
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| 2026-02-27 | Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Designates AI Company a Supply Chain Risk to National Security Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · +1 |
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| 2026-02-26 | Anthropic Formally Rejects Pentagon Ultimatum, Amodei Holds Red Lines on AI Safety Dario Amodei · Anthropic · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense |
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| 2026-02-24 | Hegseth Threatens Anthropic with Defense Production Act Over Military AI Access Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense |
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| 2025-09-25 | Tesla Launches FSD V14 with Musk Claiming System 'Feels Sentient' Tesla · Elon Musk | | reported |
| 2025-08-15 | Tech Workers Launch Coordinated Campaign Against Unregulated AI Development Tech Workers Coalition · AI Ethics Researchers · xAI Employees · Elon Musk · +1 |
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| 2025-07-15 | Grok AI Suffers Catastrophic Safety Failure, Exposing Critical AI Governance Gaps Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 |
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| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 |
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| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute |
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| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +1 |
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| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 |
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| 2024-06-15 | xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny Elon Musk · xAI · The Midas Project · AI Safety Experts · +2 |
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| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 |
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| 2024-05-15 | xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Consultants · Boaz Barak · +1 |
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| 2024-03-25 | UK Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge with Gemini 2.5 Pro Release Google DeepMind · Baroness Beeban Kidron · Des Browne · UK AI Safety Institute |
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| 2024-03-20 | Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 |
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| 2024-02-15 | AI Ethics Study Highlights Systemic Bias and Misinformation Risks in Grok AI Stanford HAI Researchers · Elon Musk · xAI Team · AI Ethics Researchers · +1 |
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| 2024-02-15 | First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence · +2 |
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| 2024-01-15 | Independent AI Safety Researchers Publish Initial Grok AI Safety Assessment xAI · Independent AI Safety Researchers · Elon Musk · Samuel Marks · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2023-12-15 | AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk |
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| 2023-12-15 | Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Kristian Hammond · +1 |
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| 2023-11-04 | xAI Launches Grok with Minimal Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · Anthropic |
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