Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has threatened Antropic with blacklisting if the AI company refuses to allow its tools to be used for autonomous drone attacks or mass surveillance – a chilling show of the Pentagon’s priorities. A Pentagon official said in a statement that Hegseth’s demands have “nothing to do with mass surveillance and autonomous weapons being used,” but the Trump administration has doggedly worked to overstep legal authorities to inflict more violence and surveillance of Americans. Yet, Trump-aligned billionaires and other allies have taken over many legacy media outlets — the culmination of a decades-long campaign to place control of the narrative into the hands of the political right.
Author: Sharon Zhang
Published at: 2026-02-25 22:15:53
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