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September brought the first detailed accounts of AI contributing to US military harm, a school strike in Iran and a chatbot-written intel report, but they came through leaks, the Pentagon is holding its report past the midterms, and the rules still govern the wrong machine.

Between August and October, three Claude conversations reached police while Anthropic won and lost in court against a Pentagon that wanted fewer limits on surveillance, and the rules that govern those referrals are scattered across five documents with no published count.

Judge Rita Lin ruled on August 27 that the administration's February blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal retaliation, vacating the supply-chain-risk label and the contractor boycott while leaving the Pentagon free to stop buying Claude.