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John Croxton

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · John Croxton

    Anthropic loses legal fight to shed DOD's designation as a 'supply-chain risk' (opens the original)

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    Anthropic will remain a Pentagon-designated supply-chain risk, thanks to federal judges who ruled that the Defense Department can prohibit its employees and contractors from using the AI company's products for DOD business. The designation has been in force since March, when the department sought to alter its contract with Anthropic to replace prohibitions on using its tools for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons with allowances for “all lawful use." The department has used

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · John Croxton

    'Super Intelligence': the president’s new term for AI, explained (opens the original)

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    President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a rebranding of the term “artificial intelligence,” saying during the United Nations General Assembly that from now on, it will be called “super intelligence.” “From this point forward, all of United States’ documents, and hopefully the world’s, will be changed to use the much more accurate term, ‘super,’ as opposed to ‘artificial’,” he said. Though the rebrand may have been a surprise to many, superintelligence is already an established term in AI lit

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · John Croxton

    Maven is becoming the Pentagon’s everything app (opens the original)

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    The Pentagon is finding ever more uses for the AI-powered command-and-control system called Maven Smart System, including logistics, force readiness, supply chain and budgeting data, the Defense Department’s AI chief said Tuesday. Maven, which is used by all U.S. combatant commands for intelligence and operations data analysis, drew attention in the early days of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran by facilitating strikes on thousands of targets in lightning-quick succession. But the war also

  4. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · John Croxton

    July’s breakout at OpenAI was far more complex than initially realized (opens the original)

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    An AI breakout that made headlines in July was much more sophisticated than previously realized, investigators have found. Hundreds of OpenAI agents collaborated to break out of their containers, disguising their actions and even sacrificing themselves as they attacked Hugging Face, a widely used open-source code library, according to a recent post from METR, a research nonprofit. “This incident was orders of magnitude larger and more complex,” than previous instances of AI agents behaving in wa

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