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The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up'Kill Chain' AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos The US government's Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at "nontraditional" defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it easier for the government to quickly purchase their AI offerings, based on product videos that must be no longer than five minutes. It's part of the Pentagon's desperate bid to inject competition in a market the United States military itself destroyed. The initiative, known as Tradewinds, is managed by DOD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO.) Companies can submit videos describing how their AI products address one of several different "strategic focus areas" that the government periodically updates.

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Image caption, Defence secretary Pete Hegseth has publicly criticised Anthropic's boss Dario Amodei The US Department of Defence is no longer using Anthropic's AI tools, an official has told the BBC, months after it designated the company a supply chain risk on national security grounds. The Pentagon has ceased the use of Anthropic products, the department official said in a statement. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth labelled Anthropic a supply chain risk in February, and announced that the Pentagon would stop using it by late August. But multiple people familiar with the matter told the BBC that as recently as last week Anthopic's Claude model was still used by the department in research, analysis and intelligence gathering as well as in military operations against Iran. It was viewed as a critical tool for sorting through vast quantities of information, the people said.

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Anthropic AI claims to have thwarted multiple malicious operations using its Claude models, ranging from cyber-espionage and weapons design to mass surveillance campaigns. On the conventional weapons front, the company alleges in a new report that it intervened in northern Yemen, blocking an effort to deploy Claude for missile guidance software, including a guided rocket and a long-range ballistic missile. According to Anthropic's threat report, the operators used Claude "in place of human software engineers", reportedly assigning different instances of the model specific roles to write missile-guidance and flight-control software. While internal safeguards blocked many requests, Anthropic admitted several slipped through. The operators avoided detection by obscuring their ultimate goals and breaking tasks across separate sessions, so no single prompt gave away the operation.

The Pentagon's AI office has rolled out several new artificial intelligence tools. The Pentagon's AI office has rolled out several new artificial intelligence tools. Cameron Stanley talks up'revolutionary' AI capabilities and says Washington working with Nato and Five Eyes partners The Pentagon's top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America's closest allies lack the resources to keep pace with the US military's adoption of AI, and that Washington is working to steer them away from mistakes it made along the way. "They don't have the resources that we do, they don't have the experience that we do, they don't have the scale that we do," Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of War, said at an event at the Billington Cybersecurity summit. Of Nato and the Five Eyes, an intelligence-sharing partnership of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Stanley said Washington was "actively working with a number of our partners" so "they don't make the same mistakes that we make".