Good morning. Happy Friday, It’s Friday, July 3 — you made it. Enjoy the weekend and we’ll see you Monday. Leaked emails show Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon was never really about access to Claude, it was about who controls what frontier AI is allowed to do in war and at home. Now that fight has cost Anthropic its status as a trusted defense supplier.
Today we are covering:
Anthropic and the Pentagon‘s relationship collapses after leaked emails over AI weapons guardrails
Spotify pulls 500,000 fake streams tied to a Kalshi prediction market scandal
Microsoft launches $2.5B Frontier Company to embed AI engineers with customers
