The real black budget story today is ROCkN: the US military is decoupling from GPS dependency — and once battlefield clocks don't need satellites, the vulnerability surface of space-based warfare collapses, removing one of the largest strategic levers China holds over US force projection.
The Anthropic/Pentagon convergence is the template for how every AI company will be pulled in — AI safety principles dissolve under defense contracts exactly as DeFi self-regulation dissolved when institutions arrived: the question isn't whether, it's which mission and which model gets the trigger.