Newly released FOIA documents reveal that Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI each signed contracts worth up to $200 million with the Pentagon in July 2025 to build AI tools for warfighting, surveillance, and automated military decision-making on classified networks.
A leaked internal ICE memo reveals a $15 million contract with AI surveillance firm ZeroFox to hide agent identities, while current agency officials warn the same technology could be used to expose and silence internal whistleblowers.
A senior State Department official leaked GEC files to a conservative influencer to prove the now-dissolved counter-propaganda office targeted Americans domestically, but former senior officials who ran the center say the documents show ‘absolutely nothing’ of the kind.