Prosecutors said the scheme ran from 2019 through early 2025. Murray paid the two directors cash, funneled money through a sham consulting company and provided free home renovations in exchange for contracts and inflated invoices.
Supposedly, Anthropic refused to give the Pentagon unrestricted access to Claude, its frontier AI model, the only one currently running on classified military networks. They wanted guarantees that there would be zero mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons without a human in the loop, making the final decisions of life or death. The Department of War's message was 'remove those restrictions or lose everything.'
According to public reporting, the Strategy Group—and you yourself—have a long relationship with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her Chief Advisor Corey Lewandowski. Secretary Noem confirmed at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3, 2026 that your firm managed the ad campaigns for her 2022 gubernatorial campaign.
Anthropic sought explicit contractual restrictions to prevent its AI from being used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon, in contrast, insisted it must be able to deploy contractor technology for any lawful purpose. Negotiations broke down, the Department of Defense moved to terminate the contract, and it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, effectively restricting many government agencies and defense contractors from working with the company.
The DoD's free GenAI.mil platform is the biggest overhang on the Ask Sage thesis. BigBear paid $250M for that acquisition, and if government agencies can get similar functionality for free, the return on that deal shrinks fast. Management needs to draw a clear line between what Ask Sage offers and what GenAI.mil does not.
The company focuses on autonomous drones and AI pilots for use in combat and in contexts where communications may be down or jammed. Its technology enables the surveillance, mapping, and monitoring of spaces (such as inside buildings) without the need for human intervention. Unlike its competitor, Skydio, Shield AI has been focused on military objectives from the beginning, yet its defence tech has also been sold for maritime, policing, and border control operations.
Planet Labs ( ) has been on a tear, soaring 388% in 2025 and up another 96% since reporting earnings one month ago. The stock is up an incredible 811% from its 52-week low of $2.79 per share. While it has been winning significant government contracts, such as yesterday's announcement that it won a nine-figure contract from the Swedish government, which drove the stock 12% higher, PL is unprofitable and likely won't be for some time.
On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: "Break our laws, we'll punish you." Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Companies that have recently donated to Labour were awarded contracts worth almost 138m during the party's first year in government, according to new research that raises fresh concerns about the relationship between political donations and public spending. A report by the thinktank Autonomy Institute has identified more than 100 companies that have given money to political parties and then won government contracts, under both Conservative and Labour administrations.
So far this year, the stock is up more than 143%, and since its October 2022 IPO, PLTR has surged an eye-catching 1,890%. In September, it was reported that the company agreed to a £1.5 billion defense deal with the U.K. That comes not he back of an announcement in early August that the U.S. Army is consolidating 75 contracts into a single 10-year arrangement with Palantir valued at $10 billion.
