Contractor's Claude agent accessed secure Pentagon system
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A contractor connected a personal Claude Code account to a secure Department of Defense system containing controlled unclassified information, according to a WIRED report.
The latest report in this story, from WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast, covers Anthropic's S-1 IPO filing rather than the Pentagon incident, and says the filing shows $16.3 billion in first-half 2026 revenue and billions in losses. The hosts' account of those figures is not independently verified here.
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- Wired · AINewsHow a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
AIAnthropic's S-1 IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, growth of more than 14 times from the same period last year, according to WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast. The hosts say the filing also shows billions in losses and hundreds of billions in committed compute spending. The company's valuation rose from $183 billion to $965 billion in its most recent round.
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