Anthropic had a $200M Pentagon contract. Now the US government called them a national security threat
Pete Hegseth demanded Anthropic remove all safety restrictions allow autonomous weapons, allow domestic surveillance
Dario Amodei said no publicly
Trump cancelled every federal contract with Anthropic the next day. Agencies given 6 months to phase out all Anthropic products
Hegseth designated Anthropic a (supply chain risk) a label normally reserved for foreign adversaries
OpenAI signed the new framework and got the replacement Pentagon contract within hours
Anthropic refused to bend
Will GPT-5.6 be released before end of June?
GPT-5.5 launched April 23. OpenAI releases updates every 6-8 weeks
What we expect from 5.6:
>> Context window beyond 1M tokens
>> UltraFast mode in Codex 2-5x faster
>> Better multi-step reasoning
But there's a competitor. Claude Opus 4.8 already launched with the /goal feature developers say it's faster than Codex
OpenAI is now playing catch up. Can they overtake Anthropic?