Washington Tightens Its Grip on Frontier AI and Drones
Friday, July 3, 2026 · 5 min
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are nearing a White House frontier-model framework as the Pentagon centralizes drone and autonomy programs under a new office, turning AI release gates and battlefield autonomy into formal machinery rather than ad hoc policy.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are nearing a White House frontier-model framework as the Pentagon centralizes drone and autonomy programs under a new office, turning AI release gates and battlefield autonomy into formal machinery rather than ad hoc policy.
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- Hegseth creates powerful new drone office, pulling authority from the military services — Federal Times
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