Dave Lawler

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.Why it matters: Up...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources say is likely to be a tense meeting over terms for military use of Anthrop...

As the Pentagon and Anthropic wage an ugly and potentially costly battle, three other leading AI labs are also negotiating with the department — and deliberating internally — about the terms under ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a "supply chain risk" — meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. milita...

The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations on how the military uses its models, a senior administration offic...

The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude AI model during the operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, two sources with knowledge told Axios.Why it matters: The previously undisclosed role ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Trump announced on Wednesday that he would not follow through on his threat to impose tariffs on eight European allies on Feb. 1 over their opposition to his claim of...

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Trump reiterated his determination to take control of Greenland from Denmark during a combative speech at the World Economic Forum — but seemingly ruled out using for...

DAVOS, Switzerland — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he's at the World Economic Forum to share a different vision of the U.S. than President Trump, whose speech on Wednesday is the most anticipat...

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled former crown prince of Iran, said Friday that the Iranian protesters are risking their lives and placing their trust in President Trump to intervene to help them.Why it mat...

The U.S. Coast Guard seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday after a cat-and-mouse chase across the Atlantic, despite the vessel being shadowed by a Russian submarine and Moscow publicly o...

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have whipped up a sense of fear and intimidation in foreign capitals since the capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, together threatening at leas...

The order came at 10:46pm ET on Friday night, along with a message from President Trump: "Good luck and godspeed."The big picture: Trump's order sent 150 aircraft into the skies, triggered a stunni...

Under the banner of America First, President Trump is attacking countries all over the world.Why it matters: American interventionism is back, in Trumpian technicolor, as seen in the attacks in Car...

China's massive live-fire military exercises this week in the air and seas around Taiwan come as the calendar flips one year closer to a date that looms larger for Pentagon planners than almost any...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog swiftly denied President Trump's claim on Monday that he had told the U.S. president he would pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Why it matters: Trump has inter...

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in a call with President Trump on Monday — their second in 24 hours — that Ukraine conducted a drone attack targeting one of his official residences, a clai...

Several members of President Trump's national security team have taken on unusually large public profiles — with frequent on-camera appearances, dramatic pronouncements and even eyebrow-raising war...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon would not publicly release the much-discussed video showing a deadly second strike on an alleged drug boat off Venezuela on Sept. 2. Wh...

President Trump's first term opened the age of "Great Power Competition" with China and Russia.His second is actively working to end it.Why it matters: For the past decade, Washington has operated ...