White House AI Policy Widens Into the Pentagon Guardrail Fight — August 13, 2026

White House AI policy is set to widen into open models as Pentagon AI contracts keep testing how surveillance and autonomous-weapons limits are written. OpenAI’s older guardrail language shows the contrast facing Anthropic’s fight with Defense. In this episode: Top stories: 1. The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy | WIRED — WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-white-house-is-going-to-expand-its-ai-policy/ 2. Step Back: How can a disagreement over the terms of one AI contract turn into a Pentagon “supply-chain risk” designation that affects contractors and potentially other government agencies? What legal and practical steps connect those two things? 3. Our agreement with the Department of War | OpenAI — OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war Follow and rate Anthropic Pentagon Watch on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Feedback? Email [email protected]