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Pentagon Threatens to Cut Off Anthropic in AI Safeguards Dispute, Axios Reports

Open AI and Anthropic logos are seen in this illustration created on September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Open AI and Anthropic logos are seen in this illustration created on September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Pentagon Threatens to Cut Off Anthropic in AI Safeguards Dispute, Axios Reports

Open AI and Anthropic logos are seen in this illustration created on September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Open AI and Anthropic logos are seen in this illustration created on September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

The Pentagon ​is considering ending its relationship with artificial intelligence company Anthropic over its insistence on keeping some restrictions on how the US military uses its models, Axios reported on Saturday, citing an administration official.
The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies to let the military use their ‌tools for "all ‌lawful purposes," including in areas ​of ‌weapons ⁠development, ​intelligence collection ⁠and battlefield operations, but Anthropic has not agreed to those terms and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of negotiations, according to the Axios report.
The other companies included OpenAI, Google and xAI.
An Anthropic spokesperson said ⁠the company had not discussed the use ‌of its AI ‌model Claude for specific operations ​with the Pentagon. The ‌spokesperson said conversations with the US government so ‌far had focused on a specific set of usage policy questions, including hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance, none of which ‌related to current operations.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for ⁠comment.
Anthropic's ⁠AI model Claude was used in the US military's operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with Claude deployed via Anthropic's partnership with data firm Palantir, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Pentagon was pushing top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial intelligence tools available on classified networks without many ​of the standard ​restrictions that the companies apply to users.

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Police Hunt Fugitive After Blast in Monaco Wounds Several

This photograph shows Monaco's emergency services deployed near the area of an explosion that occurred in a residential building in Monaco, near the border with France on June 29, 2026. (AFP)
This photograph shows Monaco's emergency services deployed near the area of an explosion that occurred in a residential building in Monaco, near the border with France on June 29, 2026. (AFP)
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Police Hunt Fugitive After Blast in Monaco Wounds Several

This photograph shows Monaco's emergency services deployed near the area of an explosion that occurred in a residential building in Monaco, near the border with France on June 29, 2026. (AFP)
This photograph shows Monaco's emergency services deployed near the area of an explosion that occurred in a residential building in Monaco, near the border with France on June 29, 2026. (AFP)

Police in Monaco and neighboring France were searching on Tuesday for a man suspected of detonating a makeshift bomb in Monaco that wounded several people, a local official said, while French and Ukrainian media reported that a Ukrainian-born oligarch was the intended target.

Two of the victims ‌suffered life-threatening injuries ‌from Monday evening's attack, Christophe Mirmand, ‌minister ⁠of state of Monaco, ⁠told BFM TV.

BFM TV and Le Figaro newspaper said the target of the attack was Vadym Yermolaiev, who was a major real estate developer in Dnipro. He left Ukraine several years ago, renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and became a ⁠citizen of Cyprus. He was placed ‌under Ukrainian sanctions in ‌December 2023.

French emergency services deployed to the scene ‌to provide backup and a joint police ‌operation was underway to track down the fugitive, France's interior ministry said.

"No event of this nature has ever happened in the Principality before," Mirmand told the ‌French news channel.

The blast occurred shortly before 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Monday in ⁠the ⁠center of Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts.

French newspaper Le Figaro said video surveillance images showed a man dropping a backpack at the entrance of a residential building shortly before the explosion.

BFM TV described the explosive device as a "parcel bomb", citing the principality's prosecutor general, while Prince Albert of Monaco described the attack as "an odious act."

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Russia Says Downed 419 Ukrainian Drones

A woman walks past Russian security personnel standing guard in central Moscow, Russia June 29, 2026. (Reuters)
A woman walks past Russian security personnel standing guard in central Moscow, Russia June 29, 2026. (Reuters)
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Russia Says Downed 419 Ukrainian Drones

A woman walks past Russian security personnel standing guard in central Moscow, Russia June 29, 2026. (Reuters)
A woman walks past Russian security personnel standing guard in central Moscow, Russia June 29, 2026. (Reuters)

Russia shot down 419 Ukrainian drones across the country overnight, the defense ministry said Tuesday.

Kyiv has stepped up its long-range drone strike campaign against Russia in recent months, particularly against energy infrastructure to target a vital source of the Kremlin's revenue to fund its war effort, now in its fifth year.

Air defense systems "intercepted and destroyed 419 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles" around the country, the defense ministry posted on the state-run Max platform.

It did not say if there were any deaths or injuries.

Moscow's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said earlier that air defense forces had shot down 50 "enemy drones" overnight headed for the capital.

The swarm came days after Russia shot down 660 Ukrainian drones between Thursday and Friday, one of the highest figures since the start of the conflict.

A Ukrainian attack also caused a fire last week at a refinery in the southeast of Moscow.

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‘Terrorists’ Shoot Dead Two Guards Members in Iran, Says State Media

A handout photo made available by Sepahnews shows members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a military drill around the capital city of Tehran, Iran, 12 May 2026. (EPA/Handout)
A handout photo made available by Sepahnews shows members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a military drill around the capital city of Tehran, Iran, 12 May 2026. (EPA/Handout)
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‘Terrorists’ Shoot Dead Two Guards Members in Iran, Says State Media

A handout photo made available by Sepahnews shows members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a military drill around the capital city of Tehran, Iran, 12 May 2026. (EPA/Handout)
A handout photo made available by Sepahnews shows members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a military drill around the capital city of Tehran, Iran, 12 May 2026. (EPA/Handout)

Attackers shot dead two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards at their home in the western city of Paveh, near the border with Iraq's Kurdistan region, state media reported Tuesday. 

It was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting, but Tehran has frequently blamed Kurdish separatist groups in the area for previous violence, accusing them of links to the United States and Israel. 

The two IRGC members were killed in "a terrorist and cowardly act", state television said, while two other Guards members were wounded. 

State television said "exact details of this incident and the measures being taken to identify those responsible are under review". 

Separately, "a family's vehicle was sprayed with bullets" on Monday in the southeastern town of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchistan province, killing the father and wounding the mother, state television reported. 

The woman later died of her injuries. 

Authorities did not immediately identify those responsible or provide further details about the victims. 

But state television said the attack "was carried out by Zionist-American mercenaries", a term Iranian officials commonly used for separatist and militant groups. 

Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers. 

One of Iran's poorest provinces, it is home to a sizeable ethnic Baloch population.