{"id":195453,"date":"2026-03-13T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:25:18","slug":"pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon AI chief\u00a0Emil Michael says Anthropic is &#8216;bananas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/13\/business\/pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas\/\">Pentagon AI chief\u00a0Emil Michael says Anthropic is &#8216;bananas&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/13\/business\/pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/13\/business\/pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 06:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nypost.com\">nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pentagon AI chief Emil Michael dismisses Microsoft\u2019s legal support for Anthropic, describing the situation as \u201ctotally bananas.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michael views Microsoft&#8217;s amicus brief as an attempt to appease employees rather than an effort to protect warfighters as claimed.<\/li>\n<li>He highlights that the Department of War, not Microsoft or Anthropic, is responsible for protecting service members.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon terminated its contract with Anthropic due to concerns that the company was trying to insert itself into the supply chain and might not respect classified operations.<\/li>\n<li>Michael finds Anthropic&#8217;s reluctance to engage fully with the Defense Department puzzling, especially given their previous cooperation with the Pentagon.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic&#8217;s designation as a &#8220;supply chain risk&#8221; and replacement with OpenAI has been viewed as necessary to prevent insider threats or policy biases affecting military operations.<\/li>\n<li>Michael believes contemporary companies are more accepting of military AI contracts compared to companies resistant during the Google Project Maven backlash.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon plans to announce new partnerships with startups, focusing on those committed to military AI rather than those with ideological constraints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon AI chief\u00a0Emil Michael says Anthropic is &#8216;bananas&#8217; https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/13\/business\/pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-says-anthropic-is-bananas\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-13 06:06:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/NYN_main_comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195455,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195453\/revisions\/195455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}