The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart

This is the rare paper trail that shows how an AI safety redline actually plays out inside government, not just in a company's blog post. The detail that a Pentagon official pushing hardest against Anthropic's guardrails held stock in a rival lab turns a policy dispute into a conflict of interest story. Read it as a preview of how messy the fight over who controls military AI use is going to get as more labs sign defense contracts.