AI vs. the Pentagon - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmine’s substack

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🌻 AI vs. the pentagon the alignment problem is Pete Hegseth Jasmine Sun Feb 28, 2026 422 63 101 Share Who would win in a fight : an alcoholic Fox host with a fetish for extrajudicial airstrikes, or a neurotic Italian-American physicist running an AI company worth $380 billion dollars? Over the last few days, I’ve not been able to stop thinking about the insane Anthropic vs. Pentagon saga. This is arguably the most consequential AI news of the year so far: more than Claude Code, more than data center populism . I am supposed to be working on two non-Substack AI reporting projects 1 , but decid

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