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Pentagon threatens Anthropic as Trump allies embrace Musk’s problematic Grok

Jason Weisberger
Feb 17, 2026
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Pete Hegseth (Joshua Sukoff/shutterstock.com)

Trump’s war secretary, “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth, is threatening to blackball Anthropic’s Claude over politics, as Trump denounces “woke AI” in favor of CSAM-generating “MechHitler” Grok.

It would appear that by questioning the Pentagon turning Claude into a mass surveillance tool, and developing self-firing AI w…

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