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Swear to Claude: The Pentagon’s AI Ultimatum

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic appears poised to ignore a deadline from the Pentagon to fully integrate its systems with the military. Hillary Clinton sharply criticizes the House Oversight Committee’s handling of a closed-door deposition. And American officials confirm some of the men shot off the Cuban coastline were from the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Friday, February 27th, and they've got until tonight to appease the Pentagon.

0:05.7

We start here.

0:08.5

The military issues an ultimatum to one of America's most popular AI companies.

0:14.2

This is really a fight over who sets the rules for how AI is used.

0:19.1

This threat could threaten Anthropics' entire business. Hillary Clinton goes on offense.

0:24.5

I don't know how many times I had to say. I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. Members of Congress

0:29.4

finally got to ask her about Jeffrey Epstein, so what do they find? And as the Cuban government

0:34.5

calls them attackers, there's barely a peep from Washington.

0:38.0

They say they don't know that much at this point.

0:40.5

A gunfight on the high seas has become increasingly consequential.

0:46.3

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

0:49.6

I'm Brad Milky.

0:58.6

I was with a friend last weekend who was getting some work done on her laptop, and she's like, hold on a minute.

0:59.7

I'm just getting this chatbot to create a calendar for me that prioritizes all my

1:03.4

different clients.

1:04.5

And as a technical rube, I was like, whoa, this is it.

1:08.2

Like I spend all these podcasts talking about how AI is reshaping the world,

1:12.7

here it is happening in front of me. And this goes well beyond office work, too.

1:17.3

AI programs are now being used in medicine, in transport, in war.

1:21.8

We will win this race by becoming an AI-first war-fighting force across all domains.

1:28.8

In fact, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken big steps to incorporate AI at the Pentagon.

1:34.8

Very soon we will have the world's leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department.

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